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If you're a 'digital native' - someone who can't remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations.

But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us.

The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis. Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit.

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Podcast links:

AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier

AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance

AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon

AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

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Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem.

Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics.

To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.

Guests and links:

Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership

Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty

Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty

Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu

Jodie Roussell, Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé

João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup

Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam

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A Paris Agreement for plastics

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When Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate.

As he publishes updated research, Crowther tells Radio Davos that growing trees must increase biodiversity, and not lead to monoculture plantations, and that it must never be an excuse to slow the drive to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.

Links:

Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich

Restor, an online platform for the global restoration movement

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Trillion Tree Campaign

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

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How to talk to a climate change sceptic

Climate change and the other global crisis - nature loss

Don't Look Up

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The concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm.

This podcast explores the potential benefits of a shift from 'volume' to 'value', to patients and to health care providers.

Guests:

Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

Meni Styliadou, Founder and Co-lead of the Health Outcomes Observatory and VP Health Data Partnerships, Data Science Institute, Takeda (featured in thumbnail picture).

Links:

Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare

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Gene therapy - how can poorer countries benefit from the most expensive drugs in the world?

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

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This week we're celebrating 100 episodes of our sister podcast Meet the Leader.

Every week, Linda Lacina interviews leaders - of major companies, organisations, or what we might call 'thought leaders' in the fields of academia or campaign groups.

If you want to know what makes these individuals tick, and what lessons we might learn from their experiences, subscribe to Meet the Leader - you can find it on our podcast website, wef.ch/podcasts and on any podcast app.

In this episode:

Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; Al Gore, Founder, Climate Reality Project; former US Vice President; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Bas Van Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Punit Renjen, Global CEO Emeritus, Deloitte; Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable 500; Harmony Jade Wayner, International Arctic Research Center; Andrea Fuder, Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group; Yuxiang Zhou, Founder, Black Lake Technologies; John Amaechi, Founder, APS Intelligence.

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In 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet.

Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeking to develop the metaverse, what does Rosedale see as the future of the still emerging technology?

Interview by Linda Lacina, host of the weekly Meet the Leader podcast.

Related episodes:

So just what is the metaverse? Meta's Nick Clegg at Davos 2022

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

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Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/metaverse-philip-rosedale-second-life

What is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis?

Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.

She believes that only if we all talk about climate change will humanity take the right paths to tackle climate change.

But what if the person you are talking to doesn't believe in climate change? Or what if they do, but they are so depressed or anxious they feel helpless?

Katharine has practical advice.

Episode page and transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe

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Radio Davos: Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on

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At the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more.

In this podcast, we invite back the two guests who appeared on Radio Davos in January to talk about the report and its conclusion that the world faced a 'polycrisis' - a combination of risks from many sources.

Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, discuss how the 'risk landscape' has changed in the few months since then.

January's episode on the Global Risks Report: Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

Read the report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/

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Sourcing and scaling viable innovations to decarbonize 'hard-to-abate' sectors like mining and aviation will be critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. How can we leverage cutting-edge technologies and adopt novel strategies to accelerate the race to net-zero in these sectors?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.

Speakers: Vivek Salgaocar, Director and Co-Founder, Vimson Group; Shahrukh Shamim, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, EnviCore; Emanuela Orsini, Digital Content Specialist, World Economic Forum Geneva, Benedikt Sobotka, Chief Executive Officer, Eurasian Resources Group Sàrl; Annie Hills, Senior Adviser on Innovation to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, US Department of State

Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/innovation-for-tough-to-decarbonize-industries

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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Gender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory.

How can we boost women's economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all levels of society?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.

Speakers:

Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC News

Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam

Reshma Saujani, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moms First

Randall Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer, Mastercard International Incorporated

Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Development Board (RDB)

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/accelerating-progress-on-gender-parity

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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