20 must-read stories for the weekend

1. Are you ready for the technological revolution? “In this new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it’s the fast fish which eats the slow fish,” writes Klaus Schwab.

2. What’s driving the oil price? It’s economics, not geo-political conspiracy.

3. Greece’s turbulent week. A sign of a fragmenting Europe, or the start of a much-needed overhaul of macroeconomic strategy?

4. How much liquidity could the ECB actually provide to Greece? It depends.

5. “The crime that shames us all” – and how to fight it. Big data is an increasingly powerful weapon for companies cracking down on human trafficking.

6. One in six people in the world lives in a migrant slum. What steps can cities take to harness the potential of the dispossessed?

7. “Growth has been environmentally destructive and skewed to the rich.” Why 2015 is a crucial year for breaking the mould.

8. How companies can act for the long term. Training workers or researching a much-needed new drug hits short-term earnings. We need new benchmarks for success.

9. What can leaders learn about the nature of cooperation from the origins of life to megacities? Find out in this week’s podcast.

10. In Colombia, education is fashion. “The World Economic Forum pointed to Colombia as a global benchmark for entrepreneurship, while the World Bank ranked it the best country in Latin America in which to do business.” (Huffington Post)

11. “Only a year ago, interstate conflict didn’t make the WEF’s top 10 risks at all.” Mentions the Global Risks Report 2015. (The Conversation)

12. After years of silence, Turkey’s women are going into battle against oppression. Draws on Global Gender Gap Report 2015 research. (Guardian)

13. World Economic Forum breaks the LGBT barrier. Now what? (Huffington Post)

14. “We are going to work with the World Economic Forum…to build a consortium of renewable energy countries in the days ahead,”says Indian MP Piyush Goyal (NDTV)

15. Brazil drought: water rationing alone won’t save Sao Paulo. “Simple calculations indicate that given the current level of consumption versus the predicted raining patterns there is only enough water on the system to last 4 to 6 months.”

16. Labour mobility and wage discrimination. Is there an effective way to prevent discrimination in wage-setting when employers are prejudiced?

17. A fascinating heat map showing the world’s largest human movement. An Exodus from major cities.

18. The New Yorker profiles Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design guru. “Ive said that in 15 years, only 2 designers have left the studio, one of them because of ill health. He regards this as a clinching argument about harmoniousness.”

19. Crowdsourcing competitions are often hijacked. “The openness of crowdsourced competitions, particularly those with a ‘winner takes all’ prize, made them vulnerable to attack.”

20. Buried in ash. What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted?

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Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director and head of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.

Image: A museum staff member takes photos of an artwork named “3D Display Cube” by James Clar during a media preview at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo April 23, 2008. REUTERS/Toru Hanai