This report offers an insight into inequalities within the African context and how rising inequalities pose substantial barriers to sustainable development. Efforts to reduce inequality have been resisted by those who stand to benefit from the current system. Redistribution mechanisms should address inequality at its roots.

This edition takes readers on a trip around the globe to showcase the nations, institutions, and individuals doing the work to solve some of society’s most pressing and complex problems. These are instances where collective intelligence is demonstrated in the arrest of opportunities through strategic decision-making skills, visionary leadership, and collaboration to leverage local knowledge for international success.

The report explores the emergence of trends in three elevating forces: interaction, information, and computation; and grounding forces of business technology, cyber and trust, and core modernization. A preview into a future in which artificial intelligence will be as foundational as electricity to daily businesses and personal lives. A world in which everything will work smarter, faster, and more intuitively.

This year’s edition of the report – the collective intelligence of over 900 global leaders in both public and private sectors - sheds light on relevant risks and their trajectories revealing the need to work openly and constructively with each other. This will be through an active and honest dialogue followed by meaningful action to create stronger, more resilient societies.