Innovation can work even in a Fragmented world

Happy New Year to all!

We are back to `normal` only in very few superficial ways. The timing and location of the World Economic Forum is one of those (3rd week in January in Davos, Switzerland).

The last regular WEF meeting was in January 2020 (we Westerners were unaware of the contagion that was about to hit us) and the theme was `Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World`. In other words, giving concrete meaning to Stakeholder Capitalism.

It was the year that Greta was all the rave in Davos as she made it in the official WEF meetings and Artificial Intelligence commanded the most bandwidth from all other the advanced technologies.

We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the WEF in 2020 (completely unaware of the Black Swan flying above above). I wrote my takeaways in Celebrating the WEF 50th anniversary with 50 bytes from Davos 2020, an article that Lawrence Wintermeyer included in his Forbes WEF2020 takeaways as `one of the coolest and thoughtful pieces of coverage of Davos 2020 I have come across`. His takeaways in `Davos 2020 Hacked: Tech And Innovation Dominate` highlighted both SDG and Digital Asset initiatives. He also emphasized the growth of the alternative Davos scene which is community driven and its role in inclusion and action towards solving the wicked…