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	CorpWatch : World Economic Forum Protests Pose New Challenges for Anti-Globalization Movements
		The World Economic Forum (WEF), a cocktail party on steroids for elite business and political leaders usually held in the mountain resort of Davos, Switzerland, is set for January 31st - February 3rd.
		This year, the WEF decided to move the gathering to New York City, in what it says is show of solidarity with the victims of the September 11th attacks.
		Much of the corporate world would like nothing better than to see street protests turn ugly, so as to be able to dismiss the entire anti- globalization movement, say organizers.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=1468 (981 words)

	World Economic Forum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The WEF's membership, the membership of its board, and the attendance at its annual meetings is heavily composed of representatives from Europe, the USA and industrialized Asia.
		In 2001 the World Economic Forum started its 'Women Leaders Program' with the stated aim of increasing the participation of women in WEF activities and involving them as members in World Economic Forum communities.
		At any Annual Meeting or regional meeting of the World Economic Forum journalists participate in most of the formally scheduled panels and events, they are excluded from the many informal industry-wide workshops and private meetings between corporate executives, political leaders and leaders of international financial institutions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Economic_Forum (1528 words)

	Articles - World Economic Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Geneva-based foundation whose annual meeting of chief executives of the world´s richest corporations, some national political leaders (presidents, prime ministers and others), and selected intellectuals and journalists, about 2000 people in all, is usually held in Davos, Switzerland.
		From 2001 to 2004 the WEF estimates that it has increased the participation of women leaders in the Annual Meeting from 8 to 12%.
		At any WEF ´´Annual Meeting´´ or regional meeting, while many journalists, selected by the WEF and known as ´´media fellows´´, participate in most of the formally scheduled panels and events, they are excluded from the many informal industry-wide workshops and private meetings between corporate executives, political leaders and leaders of international financial institutions.
	www.deluxea.com /articles/World_Economic_Forum (1303 words)

	Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Weblog
		The World Economic Forum on the Middle East will convene at the Dead Sea in Jordan from 18 to 20 May. The World Economic Forum has a strong record as a neutral platform for dialogue between countries, regions and religions.
		As an institution, the World Economic Forum has the ability to convene the very best leaders and share the best ideas to overcome the hurdles that currently restrict the impact that entrepreneurs have on their communities.
		The World Economic Forum on the Middle East should become an incubator of Arab initiatives, driven by a close conjunction between the public and private sectors across the region that addresses the wellbeing of millions of Arabs through the embracement of economic diversification.
	wef.typepad.com /blog (5661 words)

	Forumblog.org - The World Economic Forum Weblog
		The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world.
		At this week’s World Economic Forum on Africa, the Global Health Initiative will call on businesses to use their expertise in partnership with the public sector to help tackle weak healthcare systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.
		The Arab world is one of the few remaining regions to have failed to capitalize on their full potential in terms of regional cooperation and trade.
	www.forumblog.org /blog (8353 words)

	Recognition from World Economic Forum
		In 2000 the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Task Force confirmed Education and Training as essential elements of any comprehensive initiative to bridge the global digital divide.
		The World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) is an independent organization committed to improving the state of the world.
		Incorporated since 1971 as a foundation, the World Economic Forum is independent, impartial and not-for-profit, tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
	www.worldcomputerexchange.org /WEForum/0501.htm (500 words)

	Fortinet Selected as 2006 Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
		The World Economic Forum, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent organization committed to improving the state of the world.
		Funded by the contributions of 1,000 of the world's foremost corporations, the Forum acts in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest to further economic growth and social progress.
		In 1995 the Forum was awarded NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
	www.apsecure.com /news/pr/2005/pr120805.html (1006 words)

	World Social Forum / World Economic Forum - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Several delegates coordinated and participated in seminars and panel discussions on issues ranging from violence against women to corporate responsibility, from international justice to the death penalty, from the fight against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, to the effects of torture and the relationship between security and human rights.
		AI brought the same message to both Porto Alegre and Davos, which is that the human rights framework is fundamental if we are to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable, whether they are acting as agents of the state, for companies or other institutions, or as private individuals.
		Irene Khan's speech at the World Economic Forum, 23 January 2003.
	web.amnesty.org /pages/ec-worldfora-eng (932 words)

	World Economic Forum
		Different economies must have the appetite and ability to compete, but in most areas removing artificial barriers and embracing choice, competition and opportunity is most likely to benefit the national interest.
		By contrast, narrow economic nationalism can cost jobs, investment and prosperity at home and abroad.
		But we warned that all these necessary aims would be seriously compromised, and the global trading system stifled, if economic protectionism was once again to re-assert itself.
	www.kpmg.com /WEF (465 words)

	WCE Role with World Economic Forum
		In 2001, the World Economic Forum's education steering committee carefully selected global educational ICT NGOs to develop and pilot sustainable and scalable initiatives in selected developing countries.
		The goal of this Forum initiative is to pilot a sustainable and scalable way to extend Internet access to students in remote, rural schools that will not otherwise be connected for several years.
		World Computer Exchange is very pleased to have been selected as one of the global NGOs and to be selected as the co-lead for the World Economic Forum initiatives in six of the selected countries: Bolivia, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, and Viet Nam.
	www.worldcomputerexchange.org /WEForum/initiatives.htm (511 words)

	USATODAY.com - Calm opening for World Economic Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		NEW YORK (AP) — Guarded by phalanxes of police, the World Economic Forum opened Thursday with an upbeat view of the U.S. economy but recognition that the world faces long-term battles against poverty and terrorism.
		Some 4,000 police were assigned to forum security, with so many concentrated around the conference site at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that it reminded some New Yorkers of the intense security after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
		Besides the worldwide economy, the five-day forum is focusing on such topics as improving security and alleviating poverty around the globe.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/01/31/nyc-economic-forum.htm (1052 words)

	FT.com - Special Report / World Economic Forum 2002
		The decision to shift the annual World Economic Forum meeting from Davos to New York seemed vindicated.
		After September 11, the world appeared to be witnessing a geopolitical realignment comparable to events after the Second World War.
		Although the outlook for the world economy may be troubling and uncertain, it still seems better than most people dared to hope in the dark days of last September.
	specials.ft.com /wef2002/index.html (308 words)

	World Economic Forum \| TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The suspension of civil liberties during the protests is seen by the critics as evidence of the collusion of local authorities with the anti- human rights nature of the WEF.
		The main 1000 member companies are only invited to the WEF if they have annual revenues of over $1 billion (as of 2002), companies from poor countries are automatically underrepresented.
		The World Economic Forum's own magazine is the annual Global Agenda.
	www.tutorgig.co.uk /ed/World_Economic_Forum (1543 words)

	USATODAY.com - World Economic Forum is powerful podium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		When 100 large companies told Burson-Marsteller the five top forums they had their CEOs speak at in the last two years and the top five forums they want their CEOs to speak at in the next two years, 600 were named.
		The WEF has a humanitarian dimension that appeals to CEOs who tire of being fixated on the bottom line, says Aart de Geus, CEO of Synopsys, which sells more than $1 billion of software each year to the semiconductor, consumer electronics and aerospace industries.
		But it has morphed more into a forum that tackles world issues and attracts an international collection of capitalists and activists who are at odds but seem to find in Davos a spirit of idea-sharing and, for one week a year, some middle ground called compassionate capitalism and equitable globalization.
	www.usatoday.com /money/world/2006-01-20-davos-cover-usat_x.htm (1666 words)

	World Economic Forum Confronts Shifting Geopolitical Power
		On the geopolitical level, he says, the world is moving from a system based on one power to a less certain multi-power system.
		Forum organizers say the opening session of the annual meeting will see German Chancellor Angela Merkel lay out her agenda for the year ahead, as she prepares to chair the Group of Eight summit and take over the rotating head of the European Council.
		The Forum's managing director for public-private partnerships, Richard Samans, says the economic situation in Africa will be one of the important issues on the agenda.
	www.voanews.com /english/2007-01-17-voa68.cfm (665 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Q&A: World Economic Forum 2005
		Apart from the talking, the forum is mainly a networking event, an opportunity to meet friends and rivals, and to get close to high-powered people.
		The forum's annual meeting is usually held in Davos, but it has also branched out into a series of regional meetings in places like Cape Town, Warsaw, Delhi and Singapore.
		The organisers of the World Economic Forum, however, insist that their meetings are all about "improving the state of the world".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4194621.stm (837 words)

	2004 World Economic Forum - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The 2004 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is being held in Davos, Switzerland from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25.
		Poverty, homelessness and hunger are on the agenda at the World Economic Forum.
		According to a WEF study, shrinking labor forces and an aging population could crimp economic growth in many developed countries.
	www.forbes.com /2004/01/21/cx_mn_davos.html (465 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The World Economic Forum – a people's parliament
		The World Economic Forum – a people's parliament
		In Sept. 2000, the kings, princes, presidents and prime ministers of this world went to the United Nations to update its vast governmental structure for the new millennium.
		Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, one of the World Economic Forum's co-chairs declared that the "Attack on America was an attack on the world." Terrorism and the need for security has united the world.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26328 (1136 words)

	World Economic Forum - Homepage -
		The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
		The rankings are drawn from publicly available hard data and the results of an annual survey conducted together with the Forum's network of Partner Institutes in the countries covered by the Report.
		The World Economic Forum Annual Report underlines once again the role the organization plays as a catalyst for global change.
	www.weforum.org (333 words)

	World Economic Forum
		President Richard M. Nixon White House Tapes: 1971 conversations in the Oval Office with Ronald Reagan, on the vote to seat China at the UN, and with Attorney General John Mitchell, on the appointment of Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court.
		Held in New York this year, although normally held in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is an annual gathering of some of the world's most prominent leaders in government, business, academia, journalism, and theology.
		Around 2,500 participants attended this year's forum, the theme of which was "Leadership in Fragile Times: a Vision for a Shared Future."
	www.c-span.org /wef/index.asp (771 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com World Economic Forum to take place in Moscow
		It is the first World Economic Forum conference to be held in Russia since the dramatic gunpoint arrest of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in October 2003.
		Diamonds have become a symbol not of status and wealth, but of racial oppression and economic exploitation for many in countries where they are mined.
		Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors the country's war dead, including executed World War II criminals, was a blow to Tokyo's relations with its neighbors and threatened to reverse recent progress in mending their frayed ties More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/10/17/65398.html (2510 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The World Economic Forum – a shared vision
		The World Economic Forum 2002 is a watershed meeting bringing together 1,100 corporate chief executives, world leaders, the United Nations and other international organizations, non-governmental leaders, almost two dozen U.S. senators, congressmen and cabinet members as well as leading think tanks to discuss the "state of the world."
		As a result of the tearing down of political and economic barriers between countries that began in 1945 with the birth of the United Nations, these are the actors on the global level who are now basically making decisions and framing the response that affects you and me on the local level.
		In short, this meeting represents a new forum for global change – they say that as a result of Sept. 11 and the threat of global terrorism that affects us all.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26312 (760 words)

	World Economic Forum Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		World Economic Forum Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)
		These include: The way the World economic Forum (WEF) operates is instructive in that respect.
		In the 2001 Annual Report, Klaus M. Schwab compared the threat of violent alternative globalization protestors to the threat of terrorists.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/World_Economic_Forum (1388 words)

	World Economic Forum, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Since Davos is a gathering of economic and political leaders, mostly heads of large corporations, anyone who is important enough to be invited as plenary speaker is, by the nature of his or her position, extremely predictable in what they will say in public.
		Yet built into this idea is the assumption is that the future of the world is in the hands of an identifiable elite of the powerful and influential.
		Although the forum has tried to be more and more inclusive, I think it has shifted away from its humble, somewhat academic roots to a conference where there is more participation by powerful people.
	www.omidyar.net /group/netchange/news/18 (5457 words)

	Palgrave.com - Economics
		Through its reports and activities the Global Competitiveness Network (GCN) of the World Economic Forum identifies impediments to growth and thereby helps stimulate the development of relevant strategies to achieve sustained economic progress.
		The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 28th edition of the annual publication, The Global Competitiveness Report, featuring the latest indicators drawn from the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perceptions of over 11,000 business leaders worldwide.
		The Report is an indispensable tool for business leaders and investment decision-makers; it is also extensively used as a benchmarking instrument for policy-makers to improve the framework conditions for policy formulation, with a view to improving a country's growth performance.
	www.palgrave.com /worldeconomicforum (555 words)

	FT.com / In depth / Davos 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Tim Adams, the US Treasury’s top international affairs official, spent last week at the World Economic Forum warning other countries to be careful what they wished for.
		As the World Economic Forum draws to a close, Lionel Barber, FT editor, comments on the big themes debated this year.
		The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum annual meeting was “The creative imperative” for fresh responses to global challenges.
	www.ft.com /davos (393 words)

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