BROWSING: World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum has inducted 21 manufacturing operations into its Industry 4.0 hall-of-fame based on their usage of sundry digital tech, notably AI, to raise productivity, reduce wastage, and drive sustainability – and to generally withstand the crosswinds of political, economic, environmental, and...

A quick excerpt from a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, courtesy of José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and chief executive at Telefónica, who directly and powerfully addressed the elephant in the elite Alpine conference rooms: that unfettered digital change...

The killer app for 5G will come with further investment in digital infrastructure In the tech-focused and even tech-adjacent sessions this week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, leaders from the worlds of industry and government have touted the importance and...

Qualcomm CEO: "The technology you find today in your phone, you can simply think about this future where every other device can have the same technology”  Joining business and government leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon...

The World Economic Forum has identified 18 more Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories that have managed to “transcend debilitating macro forces” by making use of the latest industrial IoT-related tech. The organisation’s latest bi-annual lighthouse intake brings its total to 132 manufacturing sites, in various...

It has taken three years to appear, but four cities (“communities”) are to adopt and test a set of visual icons, originally developed and announced as part of the Google parent-company Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs project, on smart-connected infrastructure around their streets and neighbourhoods. The...

Cristiano Amon calls out Qualcomm belief that AR glasses “have the potential to be the next computing platform” Qualcomm is and has been on a mission to leverage its core expertise in technologies that power mobile handsets to grow market share in spaces like computing,...

Coursera CEO: “If you don’t have connectivity, you’re starving both access to the skill development and the access to the economic opportunity” As it typically does, the World Economic Forum uses its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, as a platform for business and political leaders...

Humans are the key piece of successfully implementing digital change in augmented manufacturing Speaking during a World Economic Forum panel discussion today, industrial leaders drove home the point that the North Star for manufacturing isn’t full-on automation in a lights-out plant. Rather, the goal is...

The first Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in Africa has opened in Rwanda, with a focus on data governance, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. It joins a network of 15 C4IR venues on four continents, and sets its agenda to “put ...

It is a silly headline, and an opt-in competition, but the World Economic Forum’s list of ‘lighthouse factories’, acknowledged for their use of Industry 4.0 kit, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities, and includes at least six sites that have been separately acclaimed for...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has added 13 new smart factories to its ‘global lighthouse network’ of flagship sites for advanced manufacturing; its total network, proclaimed for their use of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies”, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities and “value chains”. Besides,...

Interest margin on $2 billion Ericsson credit line is tied to sustainability KPIs Sustainability, aspects like power consumption of 5G networks and the applications those networks support that can boost environmental outcomes, is quickly emerging as a key messaging point for the telecoms and technology...

The World Economic Forum is to establish a new ‘smart cities’ centre in Detroit, in the US, to stimulate the public and private sectors to collaborate on innovation to drive urban change. The new ‘global centre for urban transformation’, headquartered in the Michigan city...

If connected healthcare becomes a primary delivery method, what about the 3 billion unconnected people? For more on the state of connected healthcare, download this free report. Lack of access to reliable broadband internet service is a global problem. At the end of April, Data Reportal...

Based on a national survey conducted between Jan. 25 and Feb. 8 of this year, the Pew Research Center found that approximately 7% of U.S. adults don't use the internet. According to Pew, age is the biggest determinant of internet use with other major...

Singapore, Helsinki, Zurich top IMD's 2020 Smart City Index As COVID-19 swept across the globe last year, many types of workers were forced to shift to a new paradigm that didn't revolve around keeping regular office hours. Central business districts emptied out, kitchen tables and...

The World Economic Forum has added 15 new ‘smart’ manufacturing sites to its ‘global lighthouse network’, and claimed production output among Industry 4.0 leaders spiralled upwards by 93 percent in the past year, through the Covid-era. New joiners include factories owned by Bosch, Foxconn,...

World Economic Forum launches EDISON Alliance focused on digital inclusion, digital divide Expanding access to reliable broadband--bridging the digital divide as its commonly referred to--isn't a new concept; in fact, it's been at least a talking point if not a focus of numerous public and...

The World Economic Forum pushed back its annual meeting from January in its perennial home of Davos, Switzerland, to May in Singapore, but the group is still convening political, business and government leaders next week in a virtual format for The Davos Agenda. Discussion...

The world urgently needs new digital tech, but the new digital tech urgently needs attention. So said the World Economic Forum this week, as it corralled together various private enterprises, public-sector groups, city authorities, and national governments around a ‘global action plan’ to solve...

Ten new manufacturing sites have joined the World Economic Forum’s ‘global lighthouse network’ of Industry 4.0 leaders. It takes the total number of smart factories in the network to 54. The new joiners include factories owned by Alibaba, Unilever, Renault, Saudi Aramco, and Schneider...

The World Economic Forum has published a study that says “nature-positive” enterprise solutions can create 395 million jobs and $10 trillion in revenue by 2030. A major subtext of the piece is how digital technologies, bringing insight and automation to critical industries, can drive...

The World Economic Forum has released a blockchain toolkit offering guidance to enterprises seeking to deploy the distributed ledger technology. It cited the global pressure created by the COVID-19 outbreak on global trade as reason to cooperate to strengthen international supply chains, and look...