After World Economic Forum

Reminding ourselves of the major issues that were addressed at the forum, which were security, wealth, government and job opportunities. We ask, how has the WEF resolved these issues? Does that mean Africa is now a safe place to live in? Or that jobs are now readily available for African youths?

Pulse.ng in collaboration with WEF conducted polling and commenting exercise before the forum and live during some of the sessions.

Here is a summary of the World Economic Forum summit including people’s responses and results.

The polling exercise

Pulse.ng conducted polling exercise on each of the major sessions for the WEF in which thousands of people participated. These results were shown at the World Economic Forum.

Live questions and responses

During the young and restless session, people were allowed to send inputs directly to the ongoing forum and we had  600 likes, 350 comments, 200 shares and 100 retweets.

Results and Conclusion

Some of the immediate transformation, progressive inputs and takeaway from the World Economic Forum include;

Safe Schools Initiative for security for Northern schools was launched

Grow Africa Initiative; An African agricultural based Initiative was launched

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a group of businesses committed $10 Million towards achieving safety in 500 schools in Northern Nigeria.

“China will work shoulder to shoulder with African countries as equals”- Li Keqiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China.

In the end, it seems that the WEF has focused our attention on small things that have aggregated to cause us big problems because we did not focus on them says Governor of Lagos State, Fashola in an interview with The Nation newspaper earlier today.

Now WEF has gone, we have seen immediate results and outstretched helping hands from foreign private sectors; we sincerely hope this transformation process that just began in Africa will indeed be the much deserved turning point for African populace.