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UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION HOLDINGS (HOUSTON BASED)<br />
5/15/01–Lino Garza, a contract welder working at Universal Compression, welds some pipeing for a natural gas compressor. In the background is an engine for a natural gas compressor package. HOUCHRON CAPTION (05/20/2001): Lino Garza, a contract welder working at Universal Compression Holdings, welds pipe to be used for a natural gas compressor. The company assembles components into large compressors that move natural gas through pipelines, and provides rental, sales, operations, maintenance and fabrication services. In the background is an engine to power one of its compressor packages. HOUSTON CHRONICLE SPECIAL SECTION: CHRONICLE 100. (Photo by Steve Campbell/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

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Women waiting in long queues to get their children vaccinated at a Bill Gates supported clinic. The Microsoft chairman has visited India, on behalf of his “Computers can wait, health can’t” foundation, to support the cause of making vaccines available to children around the country. He has already provided support worth US$ 200 million for India to fight the AIDS epidemic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, ten million additional lives could be saved through child and maternal immunization between 2006-2015 at an average annual cost of US $1 billion. The estimated US $2.5 billion current annual spending on immunization in the poorest countries would need to increase to US $3.5 billion by 2010 and US $4 billion by 2015 to reach this goal. | Location: Muradnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)

Just 1% of health R&D targets women. The Gates Foundation aims to change that with $2.5 billion push

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New IBM CEO Sam Palmisano (L) and Lou Gerstner, former IBM CEO, at a meeting at IBM headquarters. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates (L), his wife Melinda Gates (C) and US investment guru Warren Buffett (R) pose for photographers during a news conference 26 June 2006 in New York regarding Buffett’s pledge of 10 million class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The gift worth USD 31 billion follows Gates’ recent announcement that he would give up his daily duties as head of Microsoft to devote himself full time to his foundation, famous for US education initiatives and work the developing world including on HIV/AIDS. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas ROBERTS (Photo by NICHOLAS ROBERTS / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS ROBERTS/AFP via Getty Images)

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ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 14: A volunteer (R) passes out free cookies as community members receive free produce near World Central Kitchen’s new Rapid Response Mobile Kitchen near the Eaton Fire burn zone on March 14, 2025 in Altadena, California. The 43-foot-long truck can produce up to 20,000 meals a day to disaster-impacted communities and was on its first disaster response cooking mission today in Altadena. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Signage is displayed on an EZ Pawn location in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Nevada’s governor ordered all casinos in the state to close for 30 days in mid-March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and has since extended that order until April 30. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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FORTUNE Global Forum 2016<br />
FORTUNE Global Forum 2016
Friday Dec. 2, 2016
Rome and Vatican City
2:15 PM: Working Group 3
Jobs: Technology, Innovation, and Inclusive Growth
Topics covered: Artificial intelligence, job creation, digital divide, digital entrepreneurship, deploying technology to improve lives
Pope Francis has said that “when technology disregards the great ethical principles, it ends up considering any practice whatsoever as licit.” At the same time, he has also encouraged science to be used in the service of others.
Over the last decade, the rapid spread of digital technology has both advanced and disrupted the global economy, with profound implications for the social, political, and economic development of communities. While technology has solved key challenges, the resulting disruption raises an important question: Who are we leaving behind and at what cost? In many instances, digital technologies have led to increased efficiency and more opportunity, yet some would argue their impact has fallen short, creating uneven dividends.
What can be done to address the fallout of jobs lost and wages lowered as the global economy deploys more automation and artificial intelligence? How can training and education counter these forces of change and how can innovation encourage and impact the quality of these efforts? How can refugees being integrated into local communities be quickly assessed and employed, especially in areas where low-skill labor is vital and needed? How can technology be used inside refugee camps to help families better their lives?
More than 4 billion people, mostly in developing countries, still lack basic Internet access and thus have no ability to access the benefits that come with connectivity. How can technology be used to help communication, not hinder it? How can the private sector bridge the digital divide to ensure the gains from technology and globalization are shared more broadly?
Subject Expert:
James Manyika, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Director, McKinsey Global Institute
Co-chairs:
Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM
Mike McNamara, CEO, Flex
Martin Sorrell, Group Chief Executive, WPP
Moderator:
Adam Lashinsky, Assistant Managing Editor, Fortune
Photograph by David Yoder/Fortune Global Forum

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