TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Business and consumers
• Social structures
• Government structures
• Education and human development
• Wealth
• Health and medicine
• Politics and policy
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
The force of being connected has a power that we’re only just beginning to explore. Historically, self interest has mostly been defined by some sort of geographical boundaries – but how do we define self-interest when we’re all connected across the world? Concepts of community, presence, and relationship are all evolving to enable new models of discourse, management, governance, employment and communication.
During this major symposium, we will examine these changes from a multitude of perspectives – including business, technological, social, educational, economic, and anthropological. As one example, connectivity will affect the emergence of African nations in completely different ways to the developing countries of the past century. Controversy about "haves" and "have nots" is fueling debates about ubiquity of service, potential population shifts, cultural value systems, and new social orders. Living with connectivity in turn produces new thinking about how to leverage the links. Now that we have a few years experience under our belts, we are in a better position to see what the future may bring. Business desperately needs to understand these issues, and the global repercussions.