The “big reset”: the Davos Forum launches the world from

For its first post-pandemic edition scheduled for next January, the Davos Forum, the annual meeting of the world's political and economic elite, could not remain in " the world before ". With the art of the formula which characterizes it, its founder and always president, the German economist Klaus Schwab offers a " big reset ", in English, " The Great Reset" In order to launch this initiative, which wants to unite all the good wills of the world, with his strong interpersonal skills, Professor Schwab had summoned Wednesday during a virtual conference Prince Charles of England, the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva, climate economist Lord Stern, the bosses of Mastercard and Microsoft and representatives of the younger generation.

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" In order to secure our future and prosper, we must evolve our economic model and place humans and the planet at the heart of creation of global value ," said the Prince of Wales, who has been committed to the preservation of the environment. If there is one essential lesson to be learned from this crisis, it is that we must place nature at the heart of our way of operating. We just can't waste any more time . ”

" This global pandemic has also demonstrated once again how interconnected we are, " said Klaus Schwab . It is our duty to re-establish a functional system of intelligent global cooperation, structured to meet the challenges of the next 50 years  ”. " The Covid-19 has accelerated our transition to the era of the fourth industrial revolution," added the conductor of Davos, who claimed authorship of this expression several decades ago. We need to ensure that new technologies in the digital, biological and physical world remain human-centered and serve society as a whole, providing everyone with equitable access  . ” " We must not miss this window of opportunity,  " he insists, supported in this sense by the UN secretary-general and the patron of the IMF. To move from incantation to action, " we must mobilize all the leaders,  " urged Prince Charles.

To this end, Klaus Schwab announced that the Davos Forum in January 2021, the 51st edition of the event, would continue to welcome the great people of this world to the Alpine resort but would be partly virtual. Some 10,000 people, including many representatives of the young generation, and among them " young leaders " of the World Economic Forum, will participate from 400 cities around the world to challenge heads of state and big bosses, and to inspire innovative ideas. "Our generation grew up with the Internet ," said Victoria Alonso Perez, a young Uruguayan engineer, founder of the Ieetech company that geolocates livestock, we are much more interconnected , it's up to us to create change, not just to demand it!  "

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The director of the IMF wondered: what will “ history remember from this crisis?  "A big step back or this" big reset  "? Staying with his feet on the ground, Klaus Schwab concluded this conference to launch this “ process  ” of networking goodwill, by recalling that we cannot “ change our state of mind  ” or change the world if the economy does not remain solid and prosperous.