I just emerged from the WEFs Workspace session on innovation. The Workspace is a neat WEF space full of whiteboards, colored pens, video cameras and screens. It is, in short an intensive brainstorms space. After a briefing by the chief moderator (HP’s Joseph Hanania) the participants in this session got to choose a number of booths. The question posed was: how do we see the region in the year 2020 (optimistically, that is) and how do we get there.
The booths tackled different components of the question: youth, education, corporations, government, multi-laterral organizations.
I was in the youth group, and this was our whiteboard. Our group was moderated by the young 
Abdulrahman Jarrar, Intel’s Regional Manager for Government Affairs in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
After an intensive 30 minutes of discussions the groups summarized their vision and their plan of action and brought it back to the big ‘mother-of-all-billboards’ where they presented them to the larger group. While group representatives where presenting their ideas in 3 minutes, an artist was creating an illustrated rendering of the findings, in real time.
So how will the region look in 14 years, and how do the WEF participants think we’ll get there.. Well, see the picture and judge for yourself.
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Nice and prof. ive seen conferences in amman but they were almost no good. even participants were not that good.. good luck