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Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is the author of the book, Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. The book has been published in twelve languages and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. He writes a column about new media for The Independent.
Klaus Schwab, the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, believes that our 20th century global institutions are out-of-sync with today's 21st century political and economic challenges. He says that organizations like the United Nations, Bretton Woods and the G8 weren't up to recognizing and heading off the global financial meltdown and thus need to replaced by genuinely global social-networks of experts working both on and offline to solve the world's problems. In a Newsweek column ironically entitled "No More Top-Down Leadership", Klaus argues:
"What we need now is an entirely new global-cooperation system that capitalizes on technology, diversity and trust."
This is a top-down Davos solution for a world increasingly dominated by men like Schwab, the founder of the exclusive top-down Davos global leadership conference. He calls for the creation of 50 Global Agenda Councils for 50 different global challenges, each council made up of 20 experts selected by peer review. These councils, Schwab believes, will "depoliticize" the global problems by enabling the world's leading scientists, economists, artists, academics and business leaders to solve the world’s problems.
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