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World Economic Forum Launches Platform to Map Global Transformation

Today the World Economic Forum opens up accessibility to its Transformation Maps - a dynamic knowledge device covering more than 100 industries, countries and issues shaping the modern world.

The Forum's Transformation Maps were first developed in 2015 as a tool for understanding and picturing markets, nations and problems, and just how they engage with and interfere with each an additional. Ever since, 125 maps have been developed and made use of to inform job throughout the Forum's 14 System Initiatives as well as strategic decision-making by governments and services all over the world.

In making the maps public, the Forum looks for to foster bigger understanding of the complicated pressures forming the world in the onset of the Fourth Industrial Change. It also intends to motivate even more people to contribute concepts and solutions to the vital challenges the world faces.

Most of the maps are co-curated by a leading university, brain trust or international organization. The Forum has actually likewise developed its very own exclusive innovative network analytics and expert system innovations to further improve its knowledge-curation capacities.

" We will just fix the difficulties we encounter by very first understanding specific problems and just how they affect each various other. We really hope such 'system thinking', assisted by the know-how of some of the world's leading facilities and the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will aid our cumulative initiative to construct a future that is comprehensive and human-centred," stated Jeremy Jurgens, Head of Knowledge and Digital Engagement, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum.

Examples of a few of the affiliations highlighted by the Transformation Maps:

- How can blockchain technology affect environmental sustainability?
- How are migration, climate change and education connected?
- How will the Fourth Industrial Revolution impact governance at all levels, as well as the scale and character of conflict?

"Bold action to resolve global challenges requires the understanding, support and mobilization of all members of culture. We really hope that by making available the cumulative intelligence of the Forum's expert networks - recorded in our Transformation Maps - as a public good we can inspire creativity and fresh thinking," stated Stephan Mergenthaler, Head of Knowledge Networks and Evaluation, Member of the Executive Board, World Economic Forum.

Many of the Transformation Maps have been developed or co-curated with professionals from leading universities, brain trust, worldwide organizations and various other study establishments around the world, including: Bocconi University, Centre for Policy Dialogue in Bangladesh, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, ETH Zurich, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Georgetown University, Global Initiative against Transnational and Organized Crime, Imperial College London, Indiana University, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, KAIST, Keio University, Lagos Business School, McGill University, National University of Singapore, Nesta, Smithsonian Institution, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, University of Oxford, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

The announcement that the Transformation Maps were to be made open gain access to was made at the Yearly Fulfilling of the Global Future Councils in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Forum's Global Future Councils have played a significant duty in establishing the Transformation Maps.

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