SDIM23 - Bridging the Gap: Financing Africa's Agricultural Growth
Small and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa's largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet thre...
21 Sep 20231h 14min
The global economy is slowing - here's why that may not be such a bad thing
The World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world. This edition shows a glass half full and ha...
18 Sep 202325min
What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?
Semiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution. Historian Chris Miller, author 'Chip War', explains what chip...
6 Sep 202332min
AI Professor Stuart Russell: - what could possibly go wrong?
Professor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence. Listen back to our 5-part series on generative AI: Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about...
2 Aug 202350min
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
Designer phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3...
19 Juli 202342min
Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life
Is the metaverse still a thing or has the world's attention moved on to generative AI? On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Che...
18 Juli 202327min
The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees
Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today's refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps. He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for t...
3 Juli 202326min
Disease X - How the world can stop the next pandemic
Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for ...
3 Juli 202323min
