3 Feb 2012

My Davos resolution

Mohamed El-Haw

Mohamed El-Haw

By Mohamed El-Haw, Taleeda CEO and WEF Global Shaper

In a previous blog post I wrote in the World Economic Forum blog, I mentioned that I am searching for  my Davos moment. Well, I didn’t find it; however what I found was far more profound: “My Davos Resolution”.

We live in a world where value is only transferred from one person to the other in a horizontal manner, yet we manage this world vertically. We are insisting on managing the current age with the old methods of the Industrial age, leading to the below mentioned state of the world:

  • 10.9 million Children who are under five years old die of hunger every year. (WFP)
  • Hundreds of thousands of jobs need to be created every month. Some resources say 155,000 Job/month and others say 300,000 Job/month to keep up with the population growth. (Brookings Institute)
  • 101 million Children are not enrolled in schools and have no access to Education (UNICEF).

Even the ones who have access to schools are not learning properly and their innovation is being murdered.

  • About one half of the forests that covered the Earth are gone. Each year, another 16 million hectares disappear. (The World Resources Institute)
  • Carbon Emissions are at 391.57 parts per million (ppm); the upper safety limit is 350 ppm.

The picture looks dark and pessimistic, and every year, Global Leaders launch dozens of initiatives, yet the matter only gets worse.

While in Davos, I found a lot of hope and inspiration, but not from the usual suspects. I saw anger, hope, energy, ambition and dreams embodied in 70 individuals who call themselves the Global Shapers and some others called them the Global Shakers: A global shout that shacked Davos and challenged the status quo.

They think and act in a horizontal manner and are not interested in hierarchy. They want to share knowledge, information, experience, resources and power. They are driven by their ideals and dream of an inclusive world where no one is left out.

My Davos resolution is that: My Generation and I need not to wait for anyone to give us permission or aid to pursue that naïve dream of changing the state of the world, simply because everything we need is within us now.

The greatest quality of the young is that they don’t know; they don’t know enough to be cautious; therefore they dream the impossible and make it happen.

 
 

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