WEF Organizing India Economic Summit in New Delhi

October 3, 2019

The World Economic Forum is organizing India Economic Summit on October 3 – 4, 2019 in New Delhi. It is hosted in collaboration with CII – Confederation of Indian Industry. The summit will have special focus on collaboration with South Asia and ASEAN countries.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in India to attend the summit. She would co – chair the summit along with Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, Sania Mirza representing UN Women. Ore than 800 leaders from 40 countries are expected to attend the forum.

Objective

The summit aims to accelerate Fourth Industrial Revolution. It will convene key leaders from government, private sector and civil society to facilitate dialogues on policy tools, industry standards and guidelines.

Economy of South Asia is to be the top agenda in the summit. Summit will also focus on emerging technologies like AI, environmental reforms, start – ups, education, infrastructure and gender parity.

Theme: Innovating India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World.

Agenda

The summit is to address strategic issues based on 4 thematic pillars

New Geopolitical reality – effects of geo – political shifts and complexity of the global system
New Social System – Inclusive growth, health and inequality
New Ecological System – Climate Change, Environment and Food
New Technological System – Science, innovation, entrepreneurship and fourth industrial revolution

Fourth Industrial Revolution

The first industrial revolution machineries used steam to mechanize production. The second industrial revolution used electric power to mechanize production. The third industrial revolution used electronics and information technology to mechanize production. The fourth industrial revolution is building on the third revolution. It is the digital revolution that has been occurring since the middle of the last century.

The technologies that are ruling fourth industrial revolution includes Internet of Things, Block chain technology, 3 – D printing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, quantum computing and energy storage.

World Economic Forum

It is an international organization was founded in 1971 in Cologny – Geneva, Switzerland. The organization acts as a think tank publishing wide range of reports. Some of the most significant reports published by the forum includes