Hugh Evans and Jordan Hewson from Global Citizen, along with Arianna, sat down on HuffPost Live at Davos to share how HuffPost and Global Citizen are working together to help end global poverty.

Lesley Silverthorn Marincola, CEO of Angaza Design, writes for HuffPost:

I live in the heart of Silicon Valley and am still dependent on a piece of plastic I have to carry around with me everywhere. From gas to groceries, I pay with my credit card.

With the introduction of Apple Play only six months ago, Americans are only now starting to experience the smartphone-enabled proliferation of US mobile money services. Yet, perhaps because not every buyer has an iPhone 6 and not every vendor has a near field communication terminal, credit cards dominate the US market and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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Stoffels said two major challenges of many diseases include the basic science and the cost.

“Developing a drug is expensive, developing a vaccine is expensive,” he said.

“One of the misconceptions is that Ebola is only really transmitted when you really touch a patient,” Paul Stoffels said. “It’s not that transmittable.”

Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of Johnson & Johnson, said his company is working with different partners on an effort to get out into the field and fight Ebola.

“We immediately decide to put an investment of 0 million into [an Ebola vaccine],” Stoffels said.

Stoffels said his company has been working since 2008 on an Ebola vaccine, when the virus was far less wide-spread but considered a potential threat of bioterrorism.

“I don’t believe in competition in providing to meet the needs of those who are poorest in our community,” Cousin said. “There’s room for everybody.”

Artist Lynette Wallworth writes:

Last September I brought my film Coral the Ocean Dome to Tianjin, this year in Davos I am presenting “Evolution of Fearlessness” an immersive, interactive artwork that responds to touch.

To experience the work you first read the stories of 10 women who are primarily political refugees now residing in Australia. The stories of these women verge from the horrendous to the terribly sad. Most have experienced extreme acts of violence and worse. But the work is not about what has happened to the women, it is about who they have become. After reading their stories the viewer approaches a doorway in a darkened room and places a hand on the glass portal. This action causes the activation of a life-sized video of one of the women who steps forward and places her hand on your hand. The work creates a moment of video touch. What you experience from looking into these women’s eyes is not their devastation, but rather and perhaps surprisingly, their love.

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Ertharin Cousin on HuffPost Live at Davos

Ertharin Cousin said her organization works in different ways, helping farmers to grow and sustain their food production; helping mothers get food so their children won’t be born malnourished; and more.

“If we can make those kind of development preemptive investments, then people can feed themselves,” she said.

Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said her organization is “not doing enough” despite feeding millions of people. She said they only feed “the most vulnerable.”

“Food insecurity means you don’t know where your next meal is going to come from,” Cousin said, noting it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re hungry today, but that you don’t know where you’re getting food tomorrow.

“What we address are those direct hunger needs of those who are food insecure,” she said.

Reverend Jim Wallis, President and Founder of Sojourners, explains why he is still stunned by the Oscars’ ‘Selma’ snub.

Tupperware CEO Rick Goings explains to HuffPost Live what qualifies as a Tupperware party.

“I design technologies that are meant to maintain our adherence to the values we care most about,” Cassell said.

Cassell said she thinks the idea of having microchips implanted in humans is not a question of “if,” but “when.” She said she looks at the very recent history of medical technology, at this like prosthetic limbs, LASEK eye surgery and even contact lenses, as proof of how quickly things are developing.

“I enjoy the ability to leave my desk and do my work from Davos, I love the idea of, my students, for example, don’t know if I’m in my office or shopping downtown,” she said.

But she said the downfalls include the feeling that she must interact with co-workers when she may not have before, like while she’s on vacation.

Cassell said the advancement of technology, while scary, could foster new creativity and doesn’t necessarily mean humans will be replaced by machines.

“Certainly jobs are going to be replaced by robots, people in jobs are going to find their jobs being done by robots,” she said.

“There’s not a single number of jobs, and once you get rid of jobs, they are no more,” she said.

Justine Cassell, Associate Vice Provost at Carnegie Mellon University, said she senses a “kind of moral panic” over technology at Davos.

“I really see so much more discussion of the risk than the opportunities this year,” she said.

Johnson said it’s “pathetic” what politicians have to do to stay in the U.S. Congress, saying they can’t gain wisdom from pandering to young Wall Street workers for money, but it’s necessary to keep their positions.

“There are jerks and there are noble people in both parties, and yet it’s tortuous to watch… what these people go through to try to survive,” he said.

Rob Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, argued we should encourage people to get into the STEAM fields instead of the STEM fields, adding in an A for the arts.

“I think there’s got to be a lot more poetry with spreadsheets,” he said.

“What’s interesting and evolving the intelligence of things is how we use that data,” Sargent said, describing how soon car entertainment systems will not only play music and give directions, but be able to have conversations with drivers to help them change lanes, avoid collisions and get traffic information.

“It’s that real time exchange of information that’s really taking us out of the information age, into the age of intelligence,” she told HuffPost Live.

Njideka Harry, President and CEO of Youth for Technology Foundation, talks with HuffPost Live about how enterpreneurship and technology can work together to create jobs.

Jeannine Sargent is president of Innovation and New Ventures at Flextronics, and she gave HuffPost Live her take on the so-called ‘internet of things’.

“We like to say it’s not about internet of things, it’s about intelligence of things,” she said.

“It’s more about how you have smart and connective devices that interact to deliver better capabilities or efficiencies, but really also better experiences for you and I, and it’s really changing the way we live, work and play.”

“You have to bring technical expertise to really address the vulnerabilities and try to stop [cyber] attacks before they start,” Berkowitz said.

“If you design a more walkable, more bikeable city, you both drop your carbon footprint but you also make your population healthier,” Berkowitz said.

“It’s finding those integrated solutions… that’s going to be the solution to 21st century challenges,” he added.

Michael Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities, told HuffPost Live people often recover after natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy in an inefficient way.

“The instinct is to build back as it was, and really, Resilient’s thinking leads you to build back better and build back smarter,” Berkowitz said.

Goings said he’s been practicing transcendental meditation, which he says helps “find your better self,” since he was 22 years old. He said it especially helps while traveling.

“This is one of the most important discoveries of transcendental meditation, proven by research — you gain time,” he said.

Goings said there needs to be a “mindset change” in order to make sure women are empowered and have equal representation.

He said it’s a ridiculous economic decision not to empower women.

Rick Goings, CEO of Tupperware, said his company is the biggest seller of cookbooks in France, a statistic he thinks many will find surprising.

Njideka Harry on HuffPost Live at Davos

Harry said it’s important not only to teach young people good working skills, but also to show young people how to monetize those skills. She encourages reverse migration because of the “power of rural communities.”

She said young people “have the ability to stay in their community, develop a micro-business, hire people from their communities and make those communities better.”