Libra’s Head of Policy and Communications praises the ex-chair of the CFTC for working on digitizing the US dollar. January 20, Zurich — Less than a year after Libra’s announcement, which sparked a heated global conversation on the possibility of a non-central bank issued national digital currency, the association may finally be seeing some light…
Ousted FIFA president says he forgives everyone but forgets nothing. January 20, Zurich — Appearing on the Worldwebforum 2020 stage alongside investigative journalist Jan Fleishauer, formerly of Der Spiegel, Sepp Blatter reflects on his time before and after the much-publicized corruption scandal. For a long time, at the very top of the Fédération Internationale de…
Extinction Rebellion Co-founder Roger Hallam appears topless on the Worldwebforum stage to demonstrate and inspire courage for civil disobedience. January 20, Zurich — If 2000 people in Switzerland go on a hunger strike in downtown Zurich, that would be enough to cause the Swiss Government to re-evaluate its climate change policies, says Roger Hallam, the…
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower releases email that implicates Facebook for not doing enough to protect user privacy. Kaiser advocates for blockchain-based solutions to protect people from data monopolies. January 20, Zurich – At the Worldwebforum Zurich , Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica political consultant turned whistleblower has been on an evangelical mission ever since the ill-fated…
Europe can play the main role in uniting the world against the existential threat of climate change says the former Vice-Chancellor of Germany January 20, Zurich — Europe might be old, “but it is not so old to retire,” said Joschka Fischer, the former German minister of Foreign affairs and Vice-Chancellor in the cabinet of…
The new platform unlocks beneficial use cases of AI-generated synthetic media Zurich (January 17, 2020) — Alethea AI , a Los-Angeles based AI production studio that is building the world’s first decentralized Synthetic Content Network announced its first global campaign at the Worldwebforum in Zurich . Alethea AI aims to empower users to create synthetic…