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>>I think I'm recording now. This is Mike Arrington from Techcrunch. Actually sitting
next to Robert Scoble who's taken one of the YouTube computers here at Davos to blog. Yeah.
So I'm supposed to answer the question. What's the question? What one thing do you think
that country's companies or individual must do to make the world a better place in 2008?
Interesting there are thousands of responses I think now, and the YouTube team that's here
is actually seem to be getting a little bit depressed listening to them. They're excited
about the responses but some of the stuff is depressing them. What's interesting about
Davos is that there's you know three thousand people here and they're all talking about
the same thing. They're talking about poverty, they're talking about global climate change,
um those are the big issues. They talk about other things as well, economic growth in less
developed countries. It's clear though that there needs to be a way to make the conversation
extend to a much broader audience. You know millions instead of thousands. There is no
grassroots campaign today around global warming. There are lots of people care about it but
people are not marching in on Washington about it. So to make that happen you have to engage
a broader audience. I actually think that what Davos is doing here with YouTube is a
good start. Just to get lots of people to say what they care about and what they think
should be done to make the world a better place. This is the first year they did it
so next year actually I think you really see this probably explode. So it'll be interesting
a year from now in 2009 to look back and see how much this has evolved and if YouTube itself
can become a platform for grassroots efforts. Sort of a virtual equivalent of marching on
Washington. So that's all I have to say for now. I am, just want to add that I am honored
to be at Davos. It's great they're letting bloggers in. I hope that they let more in
in the future. We've been trying to behave ourselves, and play by the rules, and hopefully
that means more bloggers will be let in the future.