Global Collaboration Village

2022–2025

For three years, the Global Collaboration Village served as a digital testbed for immersive collaboration—bringing together leaders across business, government, and civil society to explore how technologies like VR (virtual reality) and AR) could enhance global cooperation. While the initiative has now concluded, its lessons offer important insights for digitally enabled stakeholder collaboration.

About the Village

Launched in 2022 as a World Economic Forum, in partnership with Accenture and powered by Microsoft Mesh, the Village explored how immersive technology could help visualize knowledge and accelerate decision-making. Designed for decision-makers and experts working on complex global challenges, it served as a digital extension of World Economic Forum convenings.

Climate Tipping Points Hub

Immersive visualization of climate tipping points translates complex science into experience. The Hub fostered awareness and deeper understanding of critical environmental thresholds.

Town Hall

Within the Village's Central Campus, the Town Hall was the place to host events, panels, and dynamic visualizations, enabling expert interaction, collaborative dialogue, and immersive learning on global challenges.

Airports of Tomorrow Experience

This experience - part of an augmented reality pilot of the Village - used immersive visualization and AI simulations to explore climate risks and test adaptation strategies for a safer, more resilient aviation future.

What the Village Achieved

Over three years, the Village enabled decision-makers to pilot new models of engagement—from immersive storytelling to hybrid convening. These experiences set new standards for inclusion, presence, and collaboration in digital spaces. Read our impact report, to explore insights, milestones, and learnings that continue to inform how the Forum works.

Explore the Forum’s Other Digital Services

The World Economic Forum offers a growing portfolio of digital services—each designed to meet the evolving needs of multi-sector stakeholders. These services help leaders co-create, measure impact, convene communities, surface insights, and scale innovation.

Services include:

Interaction

Enable meaningful collaboration across geographies and formats

Impact

Track and communicate measurable progress on initiatives

Events

Deliver hybrid and virtual convenings with global reach

Intelligence

Access curated knowledge to support better decisions

Innovation

Source breakthrough ideas and partnerships

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