For business leaders, one of the best ways to address the short-term risks is through investment in training. “Businesses need to invest in skilling programs to provide students and workers with the digitals tools to succeed in the markets of tomorrow,” says Emilio Granados Franco, head of global risks for the World Economic Forum. “We have already seen how employers rose to the challenge: during the second quarter of 2020, employer provision of online learning opportunities increased fivefold.” … [Read more...] about Climate change, the digital divide, infectious disease, and unemployment are the top global risks
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Female-founded companies will save our economy. Here’s why
I remember sitting in a grocery store parking lot practicing deep breathing to stave off a panic attack. I was concerned because I knew what was coming. I felt pain for the millions of people who would be affected coupled with an obligation to do something about it. I felt like Timothy Geithner’s character in Too Big to Fail. I was watching the world in slow motion knowing that the economy was going to crater in a matter of weeks and how miserable the fallout would be, especially for women and female founders. … [Read more...] about Female-founded companies will save our economy. Here’s why
You can’t use bleach to sterilize the White House. Here’s what experts recommend instead
The challenge goes beyond mere mask-wearing. It’s a challenge of staff management and carefully coordinated quarantining, which would have needed to have started weeks ago. Especially given the heightened security details in D.C. following the insurrection at the Capitol, it seems unlikely that White House staff will be able to social distance from thousands of additional troops, just as a more virulent strain is taking over the U.S. The good news, at least, is that Joe Biden has already received his second vaccination shot, and Kamala Harris has received her first. … [Read more...] about You can’t use bleach to sterilize the White House. Here’s what experts recommend instead
Parler is back online, sort of, thanks to a Russian-owned tech firm
The Twitter-like service all but got destroyed a little over a week ago, following the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. In the days after the attack, Parler, where many of the insurrectionists posted videos of the attack, was kicked off the Google Play Store and then the Apple App Store—effectively preventing any new downloads of the app. A day after that, Amazon booted Parler from its AWS servers, which meant even those who had downloaded the app couldn’t use it anymore. … [Read more...] about Parler is back online, sort of, thanks to a Russian-owned tech firm