World Economic Forum

Economic Forum Moves to YouTube
On YouTube, World Economic Forum Aims for Global Comment, Collaboration
By MATT MOORE
The Associated Press ABCnews

DAVOS, Switzerland

The idea was simple: Job training centers should be as ubiquitous as gas stations, a man called freesouljah said in a video on YouTube's Davos Question channel.

Seeing "gas stations on almost every corner," the Las Vegas resident decided to suggest that World Economic Forum participants see children as the world's "greatest natural resource." Nations should invest in kids and shift their focus away from commodities, he said in the video.

Indeed, replied U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOTKbk_mtA

Every year, global leaders attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to better the world.

The Davos Question:

"What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?"

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