From: Monica_Lodygensky@weforum.org

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:39:36 +0100

To: matt.taylor@matttaylor.com, gail.taylor@knowhereinc.com

Cc: Katja_Wittwer@weforum.org, Maurizio_Travaglini@weforum.org, Etienne_Eichenberger@weforum.org

Subject: An Update on the Education and Environment Workshops

Dear Matt and Gail,

Based on the scrip that you have proposed for the workshops, I have tried to come up with a simplified version (excluding the multimedia interventions). Based on the 90 minutes available, I have also tried to allocate the timing for the various steps of the process and I would appreciate your feedback as soon as possible. The process can seem a bit complicated and I am a bit worried if there is going to be enough time for it all.

Concerning the experts to be involved, you will see in the structures enclosed that I foresee no more than 3 testimonials at the beginning of the session. Would you still like to contact all the people confirmed (these people are indicated with ** in the structures) concerning input for the multimedia purposes?

Here are the structures for the Education and Environment Workshops, as well as some comments linked with each of them:

Education Workshop: (See attached file: Education workshop.doc)

Here, I see as the main goal to leverage the already existing Global Education Initiative and Global Action Plan which Oxfam will help to structure. I have already send the preliminary structure to Bryer's office and informed them that you would like to contact them for input. The contact person in his office is called John McGrath (jmagrath@oxfam.org). He hasn't come back to me yet but please feel free to get in touch with him. I kindly ask you to copy me on your emails to him. My colleague handling John Chambers will have a conference call with his office this afternoon. She will brief them about the development of the workshop and tell me whether Cisco would like to provide input and be closely involved in the process. We will also ask President Chissano to give a testimonial about the situation in his region. My colleague handling Carleton Fiorina (same person as for Chamers) will also follow up with her office today for a final answer. If she confirms, we would also need to give her a more active role. She is one of the co-Chairpersons of the Annual Meeting. I would propose that she does the closing remarks...

Environment Workshop: (See attached file: Environment-workshop.doc)

Here, the goal is much more challenging. The Climate Change negotiations are at a deadlock (there is too much disagreement linked with the Kyoto Protocol) and I don't expect us to come up with a solution in 90 minutes. I see the goal rather to give a spark for innovative strategies of how to proactively address the issue while waiting for a future international framework. Minister Pronk, who I consider a key player is still not confirmed, but I have spoken to the Norwegian Prime Minister's office and they are keen to be involved. I have sent them the preliminary structure and I plan to hook you up with them as soon as I hear back from them. My colleague handling Sir John Browne of BP has also contacted them to check if BP would be interested in being more closely involved. I plan contact one of the experts confirmed (Esty, Frankel, Bode) and see whether one of them would be interested in stating some of the facts of climate change as a testimonial at the beginning. As I do this, I will also mention that you would like to get in touch for input purposes.

How does all this sound to you? Maybe we could organize a conference call this tomorrow or on Friday to discuss this in a more detailed manner...

Best wishes,

Monica -----

Forwarded by Monica Lodygensky/World Economic Forum on 10/01/2001 11:41 ----- Katja Wittwer

To: Beatrice Wertli/World Economic Forum, 09/01/2001 Etienne Eichenberger/World Economic Forum, Monica 16:20 Lodygensky/World Economic Forum, Pamela Hartigan/World Economic Forum@WEF cc: Maurizio Travaglini/World Economic Forum

Subject: Urgent - template message to be sent out to your workshop panellists a.s.a.p (Embedded image moved (Embedded image moved to file: pic31906.pcx) to file: pic25987.pcx)

Maurizio has asked me to get Matt and Gail`s input for a template message to your experts/panellists in their workshops. Here it is! It needs your action now!

Please fill in the blanks, (or forward it to the WEF-contact of your expert for mailing) and send it out a.s.a.p. to all your experts confirmed for that workshop. Please cc Matt and Gail (matt.taylor@matttaylor.com, gail.taylor@knowhereinc.com) and bcc Maurizio and myself. If you have any contact info (private email, direct phone, etc.) of your expert that is not in Agora, please forward it to me - I will compile a contact-phone list for M&G Matt and Gail have to get in touch with the experts before the end of the week and need their material urgently for the slide show. I am sorry for the delay, but I had to wait for the reply from California...... best Katja

Dear Mr/Mrs XXX

Thank you for taking an active role in the Annual Meeting Workshop on XXXXXXXX (add official workshop title) As our workshop facilitators Matt and Gail Taylor are designing the workshop, we would greatly appreciate your involvement in the design process. The new IdeasLab Workshops will bring you as a key expert together with other decision makers to share knowledge and experiences. Workshop participants will work with information on the workshop theme that will be displayed on walls and will be projected in an introductory multimedia-slideshow. Your role as an expert is crucial in designing this information to be displayed. We would like to ask you to provide pertinent themes and materials for the workshop including your own work where relevant. The multimedia-slide show will present your work and your thoughts on the topic to the participants and will be the basis for the discussion. In order to coordinate your input and to involve you in the workshop design Matt and Gail Taylor will get directly in touch with you by email or phone within the next days.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Yours sincerely, XXX

From: anne.simon@ch.pwcglobal.com

Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:51:09 +0100

To: courrier@iway.fr et al.

Subject: World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting 2001

Message from the World Economic Forum

Dear Forum Fellow

In an effort to enhance the content of the Annual Meeting at Davos and help participants prepare for sessions, the World Economic Forum and PricewaterhouseCoopers have been working together to develop an innovative knowledge website.

The result is "KnowledgeConcierge". Offering somewhat fuller versions of actual program descriptions, it will also provide a State of the Question essay of about 400 words on each topic covered in our sessions. As a further enrichment, it will provide pre-selected links to key online resources in the topic area. And finally, it will offer a Personal Query service: all participants in sessions, including session moderators and speakers, will be able to enquire for points of information or broad perspectives related to panel topics. The responses developed by a KnowledgeConcierge research team will be returned to enquirers within specified time frames, ranging from a few hours for urgent enquiries to longer periods of time.

The site will be on line and available to moderators and speakers from January 15th forward, to assist them in finalizing their presentations. It will be available to all participants during the conference itself, from terminals located at the two Internet Business Centers inside the Congress Centre.

We would warmly appreciate your support for this innovative site. The KnowledgeConcierge Content Manager, Larry Yu, will contact you shortly to ask you whether you would be willing to take time to review and revise, where needed, the 400-word essays already prepared in your area of expertise.

Best regards

Malte Godbersen

Anne Simon

Director, Knowledge Management Director, Business Development

World Economic Forum

PricewaterhouseCoopers

From: Pamela Hartigan

Date: December 19, 2000

To: Matt and Gail

Subject: Social Entrepreneurs workshop

Dear Gail and Matt,

I have been asked by the World Economic Forum to respond to your request for information on the workshop "Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship" to be held on Tuesday, January 30, at Davos. Below is the "blurb" I wrote to describe this workshop

Theme: Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship: How do you nurture it? Social entrepreneurs create social value through finding innovative solutions to social problems. Many work despite multiple financial, legislative and social barriers. How can local, national and global programs and policies foster or hinder the development of social entrepreneurship? How can global social investors support, and learn from, social entrepreneurs and their organizations? This is an opportunity to learn about these issues, and others, from the experts: Social Entrepreneurs themselves!

Participants: Bill Drayton, Founder and President of Ashoka, USA; Jim Pitofsky, President and CEO of Sea Change, USA; Youssou N'Dour, Singer, has a project in Digital Divide, Senegal

I must confess I am intrigued by your proposed methodology. It sounds like it will not only be productive but fun. However, I am a bit puzzled as to what the role of the participants might be given the structure of your Group Genius workshop. It would be good to know what one might tell them to expect, and whether in fact their role is different from the other workshop participants.

Perhaps as a first introduction it might be helpful to give you some examples of stellar social entrepreneurship (these are for your own information, not for sharing with others as we in the Schwab Foundation are in an Award selection mode and we don't want people to think that we have pre-determined who will get the Award).

SEWA, India

The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a union of 220,000 women workers in the Indian informal sector. Although such workers constitute 93% of the Indian workforce, they have no welfare benefits, such as pensions or health insurance. To counteract this vulnerability, Ela Bhatt founded SEWA 25 years ago. She encouraged very poor women to lead their own groups and union. As a result, 4,000 women each contributed a day's worth of their earnings as capital for a SEWA Bank. Today, that Bank has 125,000 depositors and a working capital of over US$ 7 million. By 1995, SEWA members numbered 218,700 making it the largest single union in India. SEWA has also formed its own health co-operative, the first of its kind, with an annual turnover of 10 million Indian rupees. Elected representatives of the shareholders who are midwives and health workers themselves earning their living from the co-operative run it. The SEWA model is one that other communities in developing countries have sought to adapt. As a result of SEWA's efforts, the Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) was formed.

Community of Versalles, Colombia

Ten years ago, the community of Versalles in Colombia was devastated economically and socially as a result of plunging coffee prices, skyrocketing rates of violence and illicit drug cultivation. Henry Valencia, the town doctor, Claudio de Jesus Gonzalez, the mayor, and a number of community leaders came together to puzzle over what could be done. Through town meetings, the community identified its problem as a lack of a market base and no reliable source of income. Below the surface lay a more worrisome reality: people felt helpless. Young and old alike were nudged to contribute and commit. Through micro enterprise and agricultural development, Versalles today is a thriving, healthy and proud community of 15,000. The Versalles success story has inspired many communities throughout Latin America to follow suit and become "Healthy Municipalities for Peace".

"Duck Rice", Japan

A Japanese farmer, Mr. Furuno, has developed and spread a sustainable agricultural system. Farming only 2.8 hectares of land, his sole inputs are rice husk plus duck and poultry manure. All his cultivation is done with ducks, which also provide fertiliser and insect control. His produce, duck and duck eggs, rice, "duck rice", vegetables and poultry, is sold directly to more than 100 customer families who live not far from his farm. He earns US$160,000 a year from 0.6 hectares of rice and 1.8 hectares of vegetables. The profitability of the enterprise is such that he was able to leave it for several months each year to travel abroad to South East Asia, wherever rice is grown, teaching others about the system. As a result of his work, there are whole valleys in Korea and the Philippines filled with young farmers using the duck/rice system. The growers using the system are making enough money to send their children to university and to travel overseas.

As you can see from these examples, social entrepreneurs are individuals and their organizations driven by social goals ? financial gains are a means of getting there. They are not charities, and don't look to charities for their funding. And they are not just "socially responsible business people". Social entrepreneurs work largely unnoticed in the global community, providing goods and services that "The Market" doesn't put a price tag on. Clean air, sustainable farming practices, healthy lives free of violence, empowerment of women? and so on? Social entrepreneurs are people who create enterprises that benefit people, and then they figure out how to make these enterprises pay for themselves. Like business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs are "can do" people who view the world through different lenses. They see connections and opportunities others don't, take risks others won't, and energize those around them to achieve what seemed impossible. They are practical, not ideologues.

Now, the panelists:

Bill Drayton ? information on him and his amazing organization can be accessed on www.ashoka.org

Jim Pitofsky ? Founded Sea Change in 1999. For the past 3 years served as the Vice President and then Acting President of Echoing Green Foundation where he initiated and managed strategic, entprepreneurial alliances with businesses, philanthropists, foundations, government agencies and Fellows and provided and coordinated training and technical support to 300 social entrepreneurs. He has worked toward social change in education and law (disability, civil rights, education and death penalty) through the ACLU, Skadden, the NY Lawyers for Public Interest and Advocates for Children) and has been actively involved in community organizing and public policy issues concerning people with disabilities, communities of color, low income communities and migrant farm workers.

Kumi Naidoo ? a Rhodes scholar with degrees in politics and law. Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS, an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. Includes more than 500 nongovernmental organizations, associations, private foundations, corporation, other civil societa organizations. Has been active in the anti-apartheid movement since age 15. After being released from prison as a political prisoner, he went underground for nearly a year before fleeing the country due to persistent police harrassment. After the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990, Kumi returned to South Africa to help set up the ANC as a legal political party. He came to CIVICUS from his position as the founding Executive Director of the South Afican National NGO coalition, the umbrella agency for the NGO community in South Africa.

Youssou N'Dour ? information on him can be accessed on www.africana.com /tt_148.htm

Hope this is not bombarding you too much. Look forward to our discussion tomorrow on the conference call with the World Economic Forum staff.

Pamela Hartigan

Managing Director The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

From: Maurizio.Travaglini@weforum.org

Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 2:49 PM

To: Matt Taylor; gail.taylor@knowherestore.com

Cc: Katja_Wittwer@weforum.org

Subject: RE: Davos is coming !

Matt: WOW....I really like your "script", the way you describe the Group genius...I wish it was already happening.... I am very excited...also because I am already learning from you and Gail. Fantastic ! I trust your "understanding, design, science and art" ! They will all come together in Davos.

Let me add a few comments and many question marks to give you additional background:

- I would like to make the sessions last longer (I wanted to do 2 hours) but making sessions longer has an impact on the people attending, as they are framed in a programme where all sessions start/end at the same time. I am not sure we will be able to find a good solution!

- I think people in general start entering the room 10 minutes before the beginning, I am not sure we can change that (operations will tell us)

- I like the idea of the roving reporter....I wonder if Katja or the program manager could be that person as I am not sure we can host additional people (hotel rooms are always a problem in Davos)

- "Relevant" names might expect some sort of role in the session (at the beginning, in the course, at the end?) as they appear in the program as actively participating in shaping the sessions. I wonder if that could be built in the session. For instance: experts in the environment or CEO's who implemented best practices on sustainable operations, might be "story tellers"

- the script, could be built together with some of those experts - I guess Monica & Etienne will come out with a list very soon

- some of the glossary might be adapted to the existing context? we have limited time to create a common feeling / understanding, align on rules...should we find a language more accessible to CEO's (stiff people?). My comments are based on assumptions, I have been in Davos once...as a consultant. So, you can take my cards (the good ones and the "question mark" ones" and run with them). Last but not least: all the additional requirements we can manage. The workshops will be the most amazing part of the Annual Meeting.

mau

From:Matt Taylor

Date: December 11, 2000

To: Maurizio Travaglini

Subject: RE: Davos is coming!

cc: Katja_Wittwer@weforum.org

Maurizio...

What follows is a model that Gail and I developed over the weekend. It incorporates an entire process the session, itself, being but one aspect of the experience. The time required for this - in it's present iteration - is an hour and an half per session. It can be reduced to and hour and fifteen minutes but this starts to squeeze things and adds risk to the process. We would like you to see if the sessions could be extended by 15 minutes.

As Gail mentioned in our last phone dialog, we do not facilitate meetings we facilitate the creative process and promote sustained Group Genius. By definition, creativity is unpredictable and emergent. It cannot be made to happen. However, it is a relatively simple matter to make an environment that consistently promotes the creative response in individuals and groups. This environment - not surprisingly - functions at 180 degrees to the typical environment. This environment is made up, of course, of the physical space, the tool set and the work process employed. No work process is neutral. It is an embedded epistemology. No physical environment is neutral - for good or back every environment is rich in both symbols and constraints. Likewise no tool is lacking in power. These things are coherent and promote emergence or fail to do so. facilitating creativity involves both art and science.

The essence of our method is based on the discovery that the arena where creativity is desired cannot be managed. The environment must be managed. The subject in focus must remain free and uncontaminated. Context must be brought to the exercise and discipline to the process. The participants in the Group Genius process must have the maximum freedom from self-destructing and limiting architectural constructs be they physical, mental, emotional. Everyone has to go to that child-like space of timeless, suspended play.

Creativity and spontaneous emergent behavior is provoked when several things happen in unison:

1. A different question is asked within a different conceptual frame.
2. Multiple iterations of work are performed in a compressed time period.
3. Several levels of organizational recursion are employed.
4. A feedback driven process is working in real-time.
5. The physical environment is saturated with stimulating, ideas, images, symbols and objects.
6. Participants have the adequate opportunity to self organize and pursue/express their interests.
7. The rules of engagement are simple and the playing field level for all.
8. There are no hidden agendas.
9. The work is approached as play.
10. Big issues are at stake and this has been made clear.
11. The entire cycle of work is performed each iteration (Scan, Focus, Act).
12. A high level of cognitive dissonance exists or is injected at the beginning.

It is the density and interaction between these conditions that creates an environment conducive to passion, breakthrough and solid engineering. Creativity is not only a cerebral exercise of information exchange and reasoning - it is visceral, heuristic, messy and sensory. It requires the full employment of many vantage points, skill sets, experiences, desires, cognitive styles - all in intense dialog.

The challenge we gave ourselves is to create these conditions employing the framework you have given us. Creativity can and does emerge at any place and time. The problem is that it is usually accidental. This accidental aspect can be removed by creating the right environment. This is the principle that drives the design of our environments and the tools and processes used within them.

When Gail and I design any process we seek to incorporate all of these elements. The science is in the understanding. The engineering is in the design. The art is in how the play is conducted in real time.

The following design does this. It's preparation will take a concerted effort on all of our parts. In each of these sessions, about two person weeks of human time will be invested by the participants. If we do not get an extraordinary result, we will have wasted that time. If we do not get a result that is the synergy of all their individual contributions, we violate the justification of bringing them together. If we do not provide them with a powerful emotional experience, nothing will come of the work produced - it will crash on the rocks of a cold reality.

Their experience will be composed of 7 movements:

a) The Legend is Read

b) A Hunter/Gatherer Walk About

c) Teams Form (tables)

d) Teams Create and Read A Story (in a prescribed order)

e) Individuals Make Their Glass Beads

f) Each Plays Their Beads (on the Future History Wall)

g) A Fair Witness Reports (what has emerged)

In this exercise, nothing is normal. This is not a meeting. It is an experience. It is time compressed - participants have to respond - spontaneously - in real time. All interactions and dialog are focused on a specific challenge producing a time-constrained deliverable. The process moves very fast - through 6 iterations. There is not time to "think" - that comes later. This is one big, structured brain-storm that leads to a surprising conclusion: a scenario to the year 2020 composed of Major Events, Obstacles, Tipping Point Projects and the Role each participant will play.

THE ROOM: For description purposes, assume a square room with a center door on the south side. In the sw corner is an internet-connected Kiosk. In the se corner is the facilitator's location. On the south and west walls are knowledge "objects" - several hundred quotes, articles, pictures, models, etc. - the walls are covered. The north wall is blank and set up for scribing. The east wall is formatted into a time line - 2001 through 2020. In the center are 8 round tables forming a square donut. There is a sound system and a projector aimed at the north wall (focused to cover as much of it as possible). The room has a dimmer switch. Participants remain outside the room (the door is closed) until just before the beginning - they are asked to come in a find a seat (random order - no place names).

THE LEGEND: Participants come in and sit down. The lights dim. Music and slide show projects on north wall. Strong voice over. A Legend is told of how the people came to understand the crises in ____________ (environment - corporate social responsibility - the education divide) and acted to bring these things to harmony and stability by 2020. The Legend tells a (archetypical) story, sets a goal, makes a challenge - it reminds the participants of their individual and social quest.

WALK ABOUT: The light come back up slowly (brighter than upon entry). Facilitators briefly explain SCAN and the tradition of Walk About. The idea of knowledge-worker hunter-gatherers is planted. Participants are directed to scan the south and west walls and gather knowledge-objects that appeal to them. This is a silent exercise - a quest. Appropriate music is playing. The projector is flashing appropriate images on the north wall. While this is in progress, placards are placed in the center of each table identifying themes relevant our subject. Participants are told to find the theme most interesting to them given the materials they have gathered. The only rule is that every table has to populated within a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10 chairs.

A STORY: Participants create a collage of their materials and prepare a two minute Story within the context of the Legend and their Theme. One table at a time, they post their collage and report their story. A graphic scribe draws around the collage of each table's report. The tables report in a clock-wise order starting with the ne corner. The Themes progressively add to one another and tell a coherent tale that integrates the individual Stories. The Legend has been fleshed out.

Glass Bead Game: Facilitators introduce the Glass Bead Game. At their respective tables, each individual makes "Beads" to play on cards that are provided. These cards are different colors - each representing a different category: Major Events, Obstacles, Tipping Point Projects and the Role each participant will play (each is asked to sign this card). Participants post their cards in the appropriate track and time point on the east wall. Each "cries out" their postings.

FAIR WITNESS: Facilitator articulate the role of the "Fair Witness." The Fair Witness then retells the Legend synthesizing all the participant's work. Music fanfare. End. Participants rescan the walls. On the way out there are handed a card which gives them the URL where their work will be posted.

GENERAL COMMENTS: The entire session will be taped by a "roving reporter." The web site will integrate all three sessions: environment, corporate social responsibility and the education divide pointing out the synergies that were created.

Gail and I have found that people are in far more agreement than they think they are. What happen is they "talk" themselves out of agreement when they come together from different vantage points employing different languages. The starting Legends (one for each session) will be a framework. It will preempt the "hidden" design assumptions that typically block progress. The knowledge-objects will reveal the state-of-the-art. They will describe what is possible. Instead of debating in the moment, the participants will be "designing" over a 20 year period. This provides "room" for things to work out.

Participants will be working with their hands and they will be moving around. There is no time for didactics. There is no "structure" at the tables. They have to come from who they really are - not from position.

While the modern language of business will be used, the structure of the process goes back to long-practiced indigenous symbols and processes that people intrinsically respond to. This will help them tap into their deep beliefs and short circuit all the "reasons" why progress cannot be made.

The objective is to get a coherent model of an evolving solution that each can place themselves into. There is more to talk about, however, I send this now for your response.

Matt

(see Matt's website for further iterations of this design)

From: Maurizio.Travaglini@weforum.org

Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 11:43 AM

To: gail.taylor@knowherestore.com; matt.taylor@matttaylor.com

Cc: Katja_Wittwer@weforum.org

Subject: Davos is coming !

Gail, Matt:

First of all let me thank you for accepting our invitation to join the World Economic Forum in Davos next January. I am really REALLY excited at the prospect of working TOGETHER ! I would like to introduce Katja Witter, a Forum Associate who is the main point of contact for all workshops we will hold in Davos. We will send you tomorrow all the documentation needed for organizing your stay in Davos.

I would like to start our collaboration by sharing with you some of the ideas about the workshops. Below is the idea list for the 3 ones that still need to be shaped. Workshops are "owned" by programme managers who interact with content experts to design both the "cast" and the "script". For those workshops we have experts collaborating with us to identify the right focus / desired outcome / cast (CEO's, representatives from government and academia). This means we will need a three-way collaboration Program Manager, You, Content Experts.

1. Title: Workshop on Environment, Date: 26.01.2001, Time: 9:00-10:15 Desired outcome (draft): identify a success pattern after the failure in the Hague and before the next Rio+10 summit. What can companies do to advance the environmental agenda? Where are the barriers to agreements? How to overcome them?

2. Title: Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility - NEW TITLE: Partnering: Beyond codes of conduct, Date: 29.01.2001, Time: 9:00-10:15 Desired outcome (draft): what best practices can be shared by companies that "lead" in this field?

3. Title: Bridging the Education Divide, Date: 26.01.2001, Time: 15:00-16:15 Desired outcome (draft): how can new technologies be leveraged to share knowledge, improve education and standards of living? How can we achieve "better education" in developing countries without eradicating the existing culture? what are the "success stories" that we should share and learn from?

I also discussed with Donna Redel (Head of the Center for the Global Industries) the possibility to co-design one of the "governor's meeting". Most of them are already shaped and we have one with a great team of CEO's confirmed, but no plan. You will see attached an idea...but it has not been shared/shaped. We will see if we can shape all or part of it. However, we can work with her to identify the priorities for this group and design a good program where people can achieve something meaningful. I understand that the environment is a major concern and that we could focus on that. Also: the role of the mining industry in developing countries or the protection of the workers and communities is an important factor to be considered.

Here a few lines and the list of CEO's.

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND MONDAY 29 JANUARY Preliminary Programme Sessions will be chaired by Hugh Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, WMC, Australia Monday 29 Hotel Schweizerhof ArvenstŸbli

12.00-12.30 Reception

12.30-14.30 Session over lunch

Part I Update on the Global Mining Initiative For sound business reasons, the metals and mining industry in 1999 has launched its Global Mining Initiative. The project is aimed at helping the industry and the wider public to understand the role that mining and minerals can play in making the transition to sustainable patterns of economic development. Where does that initiative stand? How can the industry make sure that its efforts are appropriately communicated to the outside world and get the credit for its efforts? á Sir Robert Wilson, Executive Chairman, Rio Tinto Plc, United Kingdom á Media Leader á Bjšrn Stigson, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland

14.30-14.45 Break

14.45-16.15 Working Session (change to first agenda point?)

AIDS and its effect on the metal and mining industry The industry always has been affected by infectious diseases like Tuberculosis and Malaria. But the spread of AIDS and the increasing number of new infections with HIV has developed into an apocalyptic dimension. Beyond the humanitarian catastrophe, making AIDS a truly global problem to fight, new infections and spread of AIDS has a massive effect on the metal and mining corporations, severely affecting the industries workforce. What are the experiences of the industry with fighting the disease? Are there any new ways to engage the industry in coordinated efforts to prevent the disease from spreading further? á Leon H. Sullivan, The Global Sullivan Principles, USA á Raymond V. Gilmartin, Chairman, Merck & Co.Inc. USA- will appear in plenary 15:15h) ??? á Patty Stonesifer, Gates Foundation á Anthony Trahar, Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American Plc, UK

The costs of energy

Energy and the cost thereof is likely to become increasingly important with respect to a number of producers of the industry. The lack of capital investment in power over the past decade has implied that the excess capacity of a decade ago has now been taken up as demand has increased. With greater demand and no investment as well as greater limits imposed on coal-fired sources the cost and sourcing power for smelters is likely to become of greater concern. (Taken and adapted from Jessica Cross' remarks) Energy

Add point, 1/2h The CEO's agenda item: Where do we go from here? Where do we want to stand in Davos 2002?

18.15-19.15 Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting Programme Congress Center

20.00-20.30 Reception and

20.30-22.30 Session over dinner (spouses are cordially invited to join) Hotel Schweizerhof E-procurement initiatives: creating value? Review of the progress in E-14 initiative. Assessment of the value creation in the post-B2B market. á

Mike Gordon, President, Quadrem, USA Arturo T. Acevedo Chairman ACINDAR SA Argentina Patrice T. Motsepe Executive Chairman AFRICAN RAINBOW MINERALS (ARM) South Africa Maximilian Aicher Owner and Director AICHER GROUP Germany Ricardo E. Belda Vice President President ALCOA USA ALCOA EUROPE. Switzerland Vlatcheslav A. Shtirov President ALROSA Co Ltd Russia Julian Ogilvie Thompson Chairman ANGLO AMERICAN PLC United Kingdom Anthony J. Trahar Chief Executive Officer ANGLO AMERICAN PLC United Kingdom Michael W. Spicer Executive Director ANGLO AMERICAN CORPORATION OF SOUTH AFRICA LTD South Africa Rick Menell Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ANGLOVAAL MINING LIMITED South Africa Vahid Alaghband Chairman BALLI GROUP PLC United Kingdom Randall Oliphant President and Chief Executive Officer BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION Canada Baron Paul Buysse Chairman of the Board NV BEKAERT SA Belgium Baba N. Kalyani Chairman and Managing Director BHARAT FORGE LIMITED India Francisco Rubiralta Chairman and Chief Executive Officer CELSA GROUP Spain Maria S.B. Marques Chief Executive Officer COMPANHIA SIDERURGICA NACIONAL Brazil Juan Villarzu President and Chief Executive Officer (CODELCO CHILE) CORPORACION NACIONAL DEL COBRE DE CHILE Chile Ronald N. Mannix Chairman CORIL HOLDINGS LTD Canada Sergey A Oulin President Vice-President DIAMOND CHAMBER OF RUSSIA ALROSA Co Ltd Russia Dominique Michel Secretary-General FABRIMETAL Belgium JŸrgen R. Grossmann Owner and Chief Executive Officer GEORGSMARIENHUTTE HOLDING GMBH Germany Willy R. Strothotte Chairman and Chief Executive Officer GLENCORE INTERNATIONAL AG Switzerland Mourad Cherif President GROUPE ONA Morocco Dariusz J. Krawiec Chairman of the Management Board IMPEXMETAL S.A. Poland Pramod Kumar Mittal Vice-Chairman and Managing Director ISPAT INDUSTRIES LIMITED India Lakshmi N. Mittal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ISPAT INTERNATIONAL N.V. United Kingdom Mohammed A. Naki Chairman KUWAIT INDUSTRIES CO. HOLDING Kuwait Ronald C. Cambre Chairman and Chief Executive Officer NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION USA Jean-Pierre Rodier Chairman and Chief Executive Officer PECHINEY France J. Steven Whisler Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer PHELPS DODGE CORPORATION USA Jay K. Taylor President and Chief Executive Officer PLACER DOME INC. CANADA Sir Robert P. Wilson Executive Chairman RIO TINTO PLC United Kingdom Kim Samuel-Johnson Owner and Director SAMUEL GROUP OF COMPANIES USA Alexei A. Mordachov General Director SEVERSTAL Russia Oleg V. Deripaska President SIBIRSKY ALUMINIUM GROUP Russia Paul Matthys Managing Director SIDMAR NV Belgium Ekkehard Schulz Chief Executive Officer THYSSEN KRUPP AG Germany Karel Vinck Chief Executive Officer UNION MINIERE Belgium Richard K. Riederer Chief Executive Officer WEIRTON STEEL CORPORATION USA Hugh M. Morgan Chief Executive Officer WMC LIMITED Australia

So: this is the starting point. I would like to stress the fact that my objective is "successffull experimentation" in 2001 and then Radical Re-Design for next year. The Annual Meeting is "the place" to make good things happen, as we have over 1000 business leaders, 200 representatives from Governments and 200 "experts". If we improve the way they collaborate on global issues, the impact will be fantastic. And I believe you are the best partners we could find to achieve this ambitious purpose.

Next steps: we would like to share with you some additional information about the room and the formats we discussed. Maybe we could have a conference call before the end of the week, to start discussing more in depth the "what" and the "how". Meanwhile any feedback is appreciated - and please let us know if the registration forms/bookings give you any problem.

Warmest regards,

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Maurizio Travaglini Director, Annual Meeting Programme E-mail: maurizio.travaglini@weforum.org Tel: + 41 22 869 1237 Fax: + 41 22 786 2744