Greta is a science and technology enthusiast with a specialism in communicating science to different audiences. As Strategic Impact and Communications Lead for the Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), Greta curates the impact narrative of the C4IR platforms, network of centres and tech start-up communities.
Prior to joining the Forum in August 2019, she worked at New Scientist magazine, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, and the Francis Crick Institute.
In the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a modern digital economy thrives on data availability. From healthcare and education to e-commerce and financial transactions, access to da...
Durante más de una década, el Foro Económico Mundial ha encuestado a académicos, líderes industriales y expertos futuristas sobre las tecnologías emergentes que transformarán las industri...
For over a decade, the World Economic Forum has been surveying academics, industry leaders and futurists on emerging technologies set to transform industries, economies and societies. Con...
Technological change has the potential to create shared prosperity and smart solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. At the same time, its exponential pace risks overwhelming existin...
Significant technological advances over the past decade have changed the way we live, work and interact with each other.
Vaccine trial on hold due to possible adverse reaction
Scientists have developed a quick, cheap and painless saliva test to address the growing demand for extensive testing as lockdowns lift.
Early success for UK and China vaccines
1. Vaccines: new Phase One trial results and approval in China
China releases genome of latest viral outbreak in Beijing
People who feel fine might unknowingly be a source of infection
Many of the services and treatments available to people recovering from drug addiction have been disrupted by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, putting thousands of lives at risk. Countl...
"We’ve pulled back on some of the digital tracing because of our concerns with privacy…. But that’s because the disease is receding. My guess is that if the disease continues to go forwar...
It is still not clear whether people infected with coronavirus are immune to the virus after they recover. It’s a key scientific question that needs to be addressed, especially as many he...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidance on controversial challenge trials in which healthy volunteers would be deliberately infected with COVID-19.
