The Davos Agenda Week was a pioneering mobilization of global leaders and stakeholders to come together, rebuild trust, and make crucial decisions to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in this challenging new context. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that no institution or individual alone can address the economic, environmental, social and technological challenges of our complex, interdependent world.

As the world battles to shake off COVID-19, it appears increasingly stuck. But a new book The Systems Work of Social Change, authored by François Bonnici, Director of the Schwab Foundation and Cynthia Rayner, shows us that the way forward may literally be right under our noses – it just happens to be invisible to most people. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship announced 15 awardees for social innovation in 2022 on 18 January 2022 at the World Economic Forum Davos Agenda.