An eye on the Global Agenda

Does anyone have an idea of what is the Summit on the Global Agenda, organised with the World Economic Forum in the UAE for the past four years?

I have the answer! The Summit on the Global Agenda is an annual global intellectual brainstorming that brings together worldwide experts. The participants brainstorm in small groups around topics impacting on civil society, business, academia and government.

The participants were polled to determine which global challenges are the most important to address; and their responses were very interesting. It seems that these global challenges revolve around:
1. Resource scarcity and demographic change
2. Digital governance and managing complex systems
3. Global rebalancing and economic reform
4. Inclusive growth and employment creation
5. Global and regional governance

Living in an “emerging” country, bearing in mind the way the world is rapidly changing and seeing a total power shift from traditional developing countries to emerging economies, what would you consider a global challenge?

I think that if you were living in China, your challenges will be resource scarcity and demographic change. But we can also include growth and employment creation. India is facing the same issues that China has and Europe is finding difficulties to maintain or strengthen a global or regional governance. Which means that we leave in a world where we are all interlinked and inter-dependent. Which also show that my issues, are now increasingly becoming your issues to a certain extent. Don’t you think so?

Let us know your thoughts on that.