Mark O'Loughlin

World Leaders attending Davos-Klosters at the end of this month, are being challenged to rethink, redesign and rebuild the world.  The agenda will challenge attendees to help "shape the post-crisis world".  Given this challenge the World Economic Forum, in addition to its normal programme, are launching a web 2.0 collaborative platform, WELCOM.  They hope this will enable leaders to build knowledge, share insights and reach out to key online stakeholders over the course of the year.  To me this again communicates that web 2.0 is considered now as a key component in any collaboration strategy.  Especially, in this instance, where the community is geographically dispersed.  I shall be very interested to see the additional value that the World Economic forum obtain from using WELCOM throughout the year. 

The programme this year will focus on:

• How to Strengthen Economic and Social Welfare 
• How to Mitigate Global Risks and Address Systemic Failures 
• How to Ensure Sustainability 
• How to Enhance Security 
• How to Create a Values Framework 
• How to Build Effective Institutions

Let's hope WELCOM can support attendees address some of these issues in a "post-crisis world" during 2010.