Digitizing Davos

Notwithstanding that some very good things will likely happen at this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, it's tough to solve the world's problems in a week.

A couple of years ago the Forum's founder, Klaus Schwab, launched, to say the least, a rather bold undertaking to use the Internet to turn Davos into a 365-day experience.  Not unthinkable I say.  After all hundreds of millions of people collaborate on social networks, wikis, blogs and brainstorms to do everything from making...