Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos.

People worldwide are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than governments, nonprofits and the media in an increasingly divided world.

After a nearly 2-1/2-year hiatus, the Swiss town of Davos is set to again host global elites from business, government and activist groups for the World Economic Forum.

The World Economic Forum is again delaying its much-ballyhooed annual meeting of world leaders, business executives and other elites in Davos, Switzerland, amid new uncertainties about the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

TANZANIA World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said Thursday the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the gross inequality of a world where almost half the population is unable to connect to the internet. Men remain 21 percent more likely than women to be online, and 52 percent more likely in the least developing countries.He spoke at the online launch of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. A first step is to develop new financial models to provide affordable connectivity to the Internet for everyone by 2030. The digital world has many benefits, but also has been gravely misused, Guterres said. Hate speech, discrimination and abuse are on the march in digital spaces, the U.N. chief said.