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Davos Diary Day 4: Nuclear ease, gender equality and better sleep
The trillion dollar nuclear program proposed for …
Davos Diary Day 5: 2016, wasted booms and pearly whites
As the town of Davos returns to normality and the…
John Defterios: Why the oil price is going back above $50 this year
Next to Arabian royalty, business journalist John…
Muhammad Yunus: Break slavery's legacy. Don't ask for a job. Make your own.
My 13 visits to Davos have produced many intervie…
Gideon Rachman: SA must stop scoring own goals. It's a tougher world today
Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman is one o…
Nicolaas Kruger: Pravin making difference, thawing Business/Govt ice floe
Every Government, like every business, strives to…
WEF urbanisation expert, Cape's partner Carlo Ratti, designing the future
Architect, engineer, designer and MIT professor C…
Jennifer Blanke: Times have changed, errant nations have no room for error
There has been a consistent message at the 46th W…
Stephen van Coller: Banks won’t be disrupted to death - provided embrace change
Until his retirement, former FNB chief executive …
Welcome to the "Anternet" - debunking man’s desire for hierarchy, control
The more mankind uncovers the secrets of nature, …
Matsi Modise: SA Global Shaper makes plenty waves in snowy Davos
World Economic Forum founder Prof Klaus Schwab is…
SA’s “cool Gogo” leveraging UN, multinationals: Full women equality 2030
Former South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has enlisted the “enemy” to fight for global gender equality. After her hugely successful HeForShe initiative attracted over a billion people on social media, in Davos this morning the UN’s Executive Director for Women took the wraps off her latest innovation. This time…
Davos Diary Day 3: C++ coded Presidents, socialism and Donald Trump
As Davos enters the middle stretch conversation is hopscotching from automation to Donald Trump back to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Alec spent most of his day with the International Media Council, which had three presidents present. He was most impressed by one of the youngest, Canada's Justin Trudeau, who's got…
Davos Diary Day 2: Trust Barometers, Gordhan and the 21st century Renaissance
Day two in Davos and Alec Hogg’s been jumping from session to session as the town engulfs itself with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It was an early start as Alec engaged himself in Edelman’s annual trust barometer. Not the news many South Africans want to wake up to though, only…
Inspirational: Solar Impulse duo proving energy’s future, trashing nuclear
Some spectacular individuals choose to promote good causes by testing their bodies to the extreme. Like South Africa’s Lewis Pugh who regularly swims in near freezing seas to highlight the plight of the oceans. Swiss explorer/adventurer Bertrand Piccard is made of the same stuff. I first met him in Davos…
Ian Goldin: SA must adjust to world's seismic change, a new battle of ideas
Davos in January is full of fascinating people with illuminating insights. Among the best I’ve been exposed to this year is Oxford University Professor Ian Goldin’s thesis the Fourth Industrial Revolution (or, as some prefer, the Second Machine Age) should rather be called The New Renaissance. Because, like the last…
Davos Diary Day One: Leonardo DiCaprio, oceans and Motsepe selfies
Alec Hogg's back at the World Economic Forum in Davos and he was given a little crystal again, which denotes that he's been attending for ten years or more. On Day One, Alec caught up with Leonardo DiCaprio, whom is taller than he thought, talking about the ocean economy, and…
Who wants to live forever? 150 already in reach; end of death possible
South African Derek Yach is among the heavy hitters in Davos this year, leading the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Longevity. In this interview with Biznews.com's Alec Hogg he unpacks how technology is expanding a human being's lifespan to double the biblical three score years and ten. But living forever…
WEF: SA 2016 risks - jobs, social instability & infrastructure failure
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological. Alec Hogg is in London and he caught…
Discovery UK CEO: Taking Vitality to the Brits. Sports inspired.
Biznews founder Alec Hogg is currently in London on a short tour before tackling the alps of Davos for the next instalment of the World Economic Forum. While in London he caught up with Neville Koopowitz, CEO of Discovery UK. It's a fascinating discussion around Discovery's progress in the market,…