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6060 – 6080

SA’s “cool Gogo” leveraging UN, multinationals: Full women equality 2030

Former South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has enlisted the “enemy” to fight for global gender equality. After her hugely successful HeForShe initiative attracted over a billion people on social media, in Davos this morning the UN’s Executive Director for Women took the wraps off her latest innovation. This time…
22 Jan 2016 6AM 20 min

Davos Diary Day 3: C++ coded Presidents, socialism and Donald Trump

As Davos enters the middle stretch conversation is hopscotching from automation to Donald Trump back to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Alec spent most of his day with the International Media Council, which had three presidents present. He was most impressed by one of the youngest, Canada's Justin Trudeau, who's got…
22 Jan 2016 12AM 2 min

Inspirational: Solar Impulse duo proving energy’s future, trashing nuclear

Some spectacular individuals choose to promote good causes by testing their bodies to the extreme. Like South Africa’s Lewis Pugh who regularly swims in near freezing seas to highlight the plight of the oceans. Swiss explorer/adventurer Bertrand Piccard is made of the same stuff. I first met him in Davos…
20 Jan 2016 5AM 17 min

Ian Goldin: SA must adjust to world's seismic change, a new battle of ideas

Davos in January is full of fascinating people with illuminating insights. Among the best I’ve been exposed to this year is Oxford University Professor Ian Goldin’s thesis the Fourth Industrial Revolution (or, as some prefer, the Second Machine Age) should rather be called The New Renaissance. Because, like the last…
20 Jan 2016 4AM 11 min

Davos Diary Day One: Leonardo DiCaprio, oceans and Motsepe selfies

Alec Hogg's back at the World Economic Forum in Davos and he was given a little crystal again, which denotes that he's been attending for ten years or more. On Day One, Alec caught up with Leonardo DiCaprio, whom is taller than he thought, talking about the ocean economy, and…
19 Jan 2016 3PM 2 min

Who wants to live forever? 150 already in reach; end of death possible

South African Derek Yach is among the heavy hitters in Davos this year, leading the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Longevity. In this interview with Biznews.com's Alec Hogg he unpacks how technology is expanding a human being's lifespan to double the biblical three score years and ten. But living forever…
19 Jan 2016 9AM 17 min
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