Global Agenda

Tomorrow’s people

In December the World Economic Forum announced the selection of 30 ground-breaking companies as Technology Pioneers for 2004. The Technology Pioneers programme – run in conjunction with Apax Partners and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu – is part of the Forum’s commitment to supporting and identifying unique technology innovations. It also underlines the Forum’s desire to encourage…

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Sir Philip Watts Living up to our responsibilities

Sir Philip Watts: Living up to our responsibilities

Sir Philip Watts, chairman of the committee of managing directors at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, explains to Global Agenda what his company’s commitment to sustainable development means in practice – and how business must work together with governments and NGOs to ensure that it works GLOBAL AGENDA Shell made a public commitment to…

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Barry Steinhardt: Liberty in the age of technology

Increasing government surveillance worldwide raises tough questions for democracy and civil liberty. Left unchecked, the deployment of intrusive new technologies poses a profound threat to individual privacy. What we need, says Barry Steinhardt, is stronger regulation to ensure that such technology is used fairly – by governments and businesses alike The vision of the future…

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