The World Economic Forum’s mission is to improve the state of the world. What’s interesting is how they are using private social networking to help fulfill that goal.
While the World Economic Forum is great at bringing together world leaders and creating a lot of traction at their events, there needed to be a way for them to continue conversations before and after the events. Private social is helping to bridge the gap and keep the momentum going.
I recently attended the World Economic Forum’s Latin America Summit, where government leaders, business leaders and global experts gathered to address issues from sustaining economic growth to engaging the next generation of leaders. With 900 people attending the summit they used tibbr to not only coordinate the event, but also help people network before and after the event. The private network allows the leaders to continue conversations and further address global initiatives.
Governments are involved. Business leaders are involved. Civil society groups like Amnesty International and Save the Children are involved. Large global issues cannot be solved by businesses and governments alone. With private social networking, they’re engaging people that wouldn’t usually be connected, allowing for cross pollination of ideas and the start of innovative projects.
As Professor Klaus Schwab, who founded the World Economic Forum 41 years ago, said, “Why not create a platform where the stakeholders of the world could come together, and not only stakeholders of specific business communities, but the stake holders of our common future as a society.”
