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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 13, 2011
Georgia Tech Media Relations
Laura Diamond
laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu
404-894-6016
Jason Maderer
maderer@gatech.edu
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Summary Sentence:
Georgia Tech has established a set of strategic collaborations with the World Economic Forum, a Geneva-based non-profit organization that focuses on the most pressing issues facing the world.
Full Summary:
Georgia Tech is among the top U.S. public and private institutions invited to be part of the World Economic Forum’s Knowledge Advisory Board, a group of senior representatives from the foremost 200 universities worldwide that will advise the forum on how to engage with academic partners and the field of higher education.
Steve McLaughlin
Blair MacIntyre
Michael Best
Donald Ratliff, executive director of Georgia Tech's Supply Chain & Logistics InstituteThe Georgia Institute of Technology has established a set of strategic collaborations with the World Economic Forum, a Geneva-based non-profit organization that focuses on the most pressing issues facing the world.
Georgia Tech is among the top U.S. public and private institutions invited to be part of the World Economic Forum’s Knowledge Advisory Board, a group of senior representatives from the foremost 200 universities worldwide that will advise the forum on how to engage with academic partners and the field of higher education.
“The World Economic Forum is the premier convener of thought leaders around the world,” said Steven McLaughlin, Georgia Tech’s vice provost of international initiatives. “Having Georgia Tech as the only public university in that group expands our global impact and influence, and connects us to an important international network of leaders.”
McLaughlin will be traveling to Geneva this fall to represent Georgia Tech on the Knowledge Advisory Board.
The partnership between Georgia Tech and the World Economic Forum has yielded other initiatives. Several Georgia Tech faculty members, for example, will be participating in the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China, Sept. 14-16.
Known as “Summer Davos,” the Annual Meeting of the New Champions is the foremost global business gathering in Asia and is designed to foster interaction, generate insight and achieve impact across more than 1,500 participants attending.
Four faculty members will be representing Georgia Tech at “Summer Davos” in Dalian.
Elizabeth Mynatt, interactive computing professor and executive director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT); Blair MacIntyre, interactive computing professor; Ian Bogost, literature, communication and culture professor; and Michael Best, associate professor of international affairs, will be presenting in the “IdeasLab with Georgia Tech: Connectivity and Social Interaction.”
They will discuss persuasive gaming to address societal issues; augmented reality in media, healthcare and politics; creative discovery to manage personal information; and social media in civic engagement and political development. The IdeasLab is a unique format during the meeting in which the world’s top academic institutions present their current thinking and the audience interacts on their ideas.
MacIntyre and Bogost will also be filming a short documentary at the meeting that profiles their research work, and Mynatt will be participating in an executive think tank on Innovation and Energy Technology hosted by NBC, Harvard Business Review, Caixin Media and Shell.
Besides holding meetings, the World Economic Forum produces a series of research reports and engages its members in sector-specific initiatives. Georgia Tech faculty members have been asked to be academic partners on three studies for the forum.
In addition to Dalian, the World Economic Forum hosts an annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together top business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists to discuss world issues.
