Worldwebforum pivots to a digital membership model. The organisers of the Worldwebforum Annual meeting have announced that their next annual meeting will take place on January 28, 2022, with a focus on its shift to a digital community in 2020. In it’s 9th year, the event takes place each January in Zurich, Switzerland. It was…
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…
Worldwebforum announces impactful changes to its annual conference and content sharing formats. January 16, Zurich — Worldwebforum 2020 opened with powerful announcements from its organizers. The conference which began as a 15-member user group has grown exponentially since 2008 and has evolved every 4 years. The next phase for Worldwebforum follows a double-pronged growth strategy:…
Worldwebforum is approaching next Thursday, and is attracting some attention from friends and foes around Zurich. Here is our response. The Worldwebforum started 12 years ago as a small, local, technology user group to share our vision for the future. Over time, we have grown into what Worldwebforum is today. Some love us, others feel…
Zurich, Switzerland (October 24, 2019) Worldwebforum today announced the inclusion of Brittany Kaiser on their main stage lineup for its 8th annual meeting on January 16th and 17th, 2020. Kaiser was the subject of Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” and is now launching her explosive memoir “Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and how…