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Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) is a multinational policy development platform hosted by the World Economic Forum, based in San Francisco, California.

History

The opening of the C4IR was officially announced on October 10, 2016 in San Francisco. Attendees of the event included Marc Benioff, Penny Pritzker, Bernard Tyson, and Mike Wirth.[1]

In January 2018, C4IR published a white paper titled "Agile Governance Reimagining Policy-making in the Fourth Industrial Revolution."[2]

Publications

  1. Monck, A. (2016, October 10). New Forum Center to Advance Global Cooperation on Fourth Industrial Revolution. World Economic Forum. http://archive.today/2024.03.22-180732/https://www.weforum.org/press/2016/10/new-forum-center-to-advance-global-cooperation-on-fourth-industrial-revolution/ ↩︎

  2. Elmi, N., Broekaert, K., & Engtoft Larsen, A.-M. (2018). Agile Governance Reimagining Policy-making in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20240322171159/https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Agile_Governance_Reimagining_Policy-making_4IR_report.pdf ↩︎