The Panel Discussions
At The World Forum 2024
The World Forum 2024 hosted a total of 30 panel discussions on the Future of Democracy, Tech, and Humankind, categorised into six segments. The Forum served as a platform to renew democracy and define the future of humanity. To encourage real change, some panels were followed by a lawmaking workshop aimed at developing blueprint legislation for governments around the world.
To learn more about each segment, please click the links below:
Quotes From The World Forum
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“When we look back on it, what I hope we conclude, is that Trump was kind of like—and this might sound a little strange to you—a vaccine. An element of a disease that was injected into the body politic, alongside Putin and others like him. The effect of which was to strengthen our defenses, was to make us care more about our democracies.”
- Tom Malinowski, Former US Representative
“We cannot wait. We must establish a special tribunal on aggression and hold Putin, Lukashenko, top political leadership and high military command of Russian state accountable.”
- Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian Human Rights Lawyer
& Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
“It should not divide. It should be something we can unite behind, that we are all at risk. And, critically, ever single place has to be part of the change.”
- Eamon Ryan, Irish Minister for Environment, Climate & Communications
“Today, the price of protest is sky high. And if you have an option to leave, and continue your part from a safer place, I don’t think there is any harm or shame in doing that. The answer is, find out what you can do sustainably, you don’t want to burn out in your fight, but you want to be consistent and you want to be able to do those things for the next 10, 20 years - however long it will it will take.”
- Nadya Tolokonnikova, Founding Member of Pussy Riot
“The threats from AI are real, but they don’t come primarily from big tech. The safest future of AI likely involves a scenario where the big companies, big tech companies, rapidly achieve the advanced AI, ahead of the foreign rivals and bad actors. Misalignment, while it is clearly an issue in the computer science space, it’s also an issue among regulators and government.”
- James Broughel, Forbes Journalist and Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute
“Religion is used to legitimize the power of one man, of one group, of one tribe. The religion is the foundation of the power of the dictatorship […] So this is the kind of dictatorship we have in Saudi Arabia, or in Iran, and everybody knows that those dictatorships are extremely harsh against women, against minorities, against everybody who is opposing the political system and they can be very brutal, very harsh, and extremely harmful to the society.”
- Moncef Marzouki, Former President of Tunisia
“It’s an opportunity not for people who live locally not having to commute, but it’s an opportunity to hire talent globally. We have to use technology so that people can benefit from it, to give them access to opportunities, because I strongly believe that everybody deserves an opportunity to work for a great company, no matter where they come from or live.”
- Nadia Harris, Founder of remoteworkadvocate.com