What the Web Was Made For

The World Economic Forum are holding their Annual Meeting in a couple of weeks. The 2007 event is being held in Davos and features a pretty heavyweight of speakers including Mohammed Abbas, Mohammed El Baradei, Paul Wolfowitz and our own beloved PM.

Traditionally a fairly closed event, the WEF have decided to get communicating with the wider public. As well as webcasting many of the seminars they have also invited the public to submit video questions and responses.
In addition they will also be setting up a Davos Conversation page which will collate media related to the event from around the web.

Nice to see the world’s great and the good actually making an effort to listen to people for once (it doesn’t seem to happen very often, especially in the UK nowadays). Whether they actually will or not remains to be seen.