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What Will the World Democracy Be Like After the Pandemic?

We can Rebuild and produce a more Humane Democracy

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Summary: We the world find ourselves in an uncertain season marked by our sudden fragility. Like humans always do, our survival instincts have jumped into overdrive. We now spend most waking hours thinking, worrying, and strategizing about how to combat an invisible virus that won’t go away. And when we’re not consumed with our defense, we wonder about life as we know it or, perhaps, as it once was. We’re collectively asking, What is the best response? And, Is this seismic shift the new normal? If the pandemic has illuminated anything, it has illuminated the fault lines in both national and global collaboration. But what if these fault lines are the light at the end of this unprecedented tunnel? This is the prevailing question posed by a new media initiative from the groundbreaking authors of The transHuman Code, the one book placed into the hands of every delegate at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos.

Carlos Moreira and David Fergusson’s latest initiative, aptly titled Pandemocracy, explores in enlightening detail, the negative and positive takeaways of the pandemic on humanity’s pursuit of democracy for all. They then detail their bold claim that the engagement of global leadership in concert with the application of human-first principles to the coding of key global technologies (introduced in The transHuman Code) will bring about the prepared, symbiotic world we now know we need. Over the next eight months, the initiative will publish four bi-monthly essays on four key issues we must get right, synced with four one-question global polls on major relevant issues, providing a real time pulse of the world’s state of mind. These findings, along with expert interviews and a more robust discussion of the essay topics, will fill the pages of a book to be pre-released to delegates of the 2021 World Economic Forum, and available worldwide in the first half of 2021.

The interception of Pandemic and Democracy and how the current pandemic outbreak presents a range of new challenges and disruption to democracy and the human identity and rights.

Areas on Interest covered by the book and interviews

  1. Intro: The origins of Democracy in Greece and the end of the Democracy as we know it
  2. Democracy Human Identity and Rights under threat from ‘pandemic of misinformation’
  3. Humanity Fragility: We realized how fragile Humanity is with the current Pandemic.
  4. Global Reset versus a Global Renewal
  5. Consequences for the health and economies of societies : The uncertainty around how long this situation will persist and what will be the consequences for the health and economies of societies increases the complexity of developing and design a concise set of measures to mitigate the risks
  6. Current Technology limitations: With the emergence of COVID-19, the world is experiencing unprecedented challenges that could erase all of the 4th Industrial Revolution developments.
  7. New Technologies to prevent future Pandemics: “Remote work, Distance education, TeleHealth and video conferencing solutions have disrupted during the current pandemic creating the new normal.
  8. Pandemic Sustainability and Climate Change: can we get back to the equilibrium
  9. Authoritarian Countries versus Open Democracy Models. How shall we proceed by setting rules that the whole society will adhere and for the benefits of all. 
  10. Which Country will succeed on a Post Pandemic World? Decentralized, efficient government, low debt, fast reaction to the outbreak, virus containment and a reputation for technology and industrial excellence focusing to protect their citizens.
  11. Elections for a new Democratic Model: How current elections in key countries like USA and in EU can shape the opinion of voters towards a more Humane Democracy.
  12. The Dark Side of the Pandemic : The Pandemic is impacting crime around the world, including illicit trade, migrant smuggling and human trafficking.
  13. The World Ahead US: The pandemic has induced a global crisis that has no limitations and borders with the consequence of impacting billion of humans.
  14. Deeptech and TransHuman Code to the rescue. Robots don’t get infect by Virus. Will they replace the human work force. Can we tax Robots and use the money to gurantee a minimum income for Humans.
  15. The new Human Digital Identity , we need a WiseID
  16. Conclusions

Pandemocracy Chapter Outline

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Introduction:

  • Pandemocracy explained: the messy merger of a pandemic and a democracy which can lead to a new path to democracy for all
  • What the pandemic has shown us about today’s democracy and our current human frailty
  • How the pandemic can serve as a multifaceted wake-up call for humanity
  • A new paradigm for post-pandemic democracy that involves the wise use of technology

Section I:

  • The belying spread and sharing of knowledge in the pandemocracy
  • The pandemic of misinformation
  • The pandemic of data silos
  • Technology and a new paradigm of pandemocratic communication

Section II:

  • The pandemic of an unhealthy response to human health
  • The pandemic of mistrust and misalignment
  • The solutions to mistrust and misalignment
  • Technology and a new paradigm of pandemocratic health

Section III:

  • The pandemic of a world without education and work
  • The solutions that shone through the cracks in the systems
  • Technology and a new paradigm of pandemocratic education
  • Technology and a new paradigm of pandemocratic work

Epilogue:

  • The sort of country (and world) that will succeed post-pandemic

What pandemocracy can look like in the Fourth Industrial revolution

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WISeKey Arago Fireside Chat.
Arturo Bris, Professor of Finance, IMD. Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center.
Carlos Creus Moreira, Founder, Chairman and CEO at WiseKey
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