4 keynote innovation_collaboration_and_partnerships

Innovation

responsibilityand partnership

Vice and virtue are like color, sound, heat –

They are not qualities, but perceptions in the mind

Why do we think everything that begins to exist must have a cause?

Why do we think that specific causes have specific affects?

The uncertainty principle

Ironic and Unintended

Innovative people are a pain in the neck.

Yet without innovation we are doomed—by

boredom and monotony—to decline.

Advancements in Technology

genetically engineered

food

Hope you are not a vegetarian

glowing plants

Poverty Fly

The kissing bug

no more babies for the beetle

injectable heart

smart dust Motes

It is raining in Sahara

20th century

The connected world

Will freedoms and possibilities liberate our minds?

peaceWill technology end wars?

social democratic systems

Freedom of press is owning the

press

15 years in jail For owning a computer or fax

Sierra leone

A world of witnesses

Crackdown by Myanmar’s Junta on its Monks

The Arab Spring

Haiti

222,570 people died , 300,572 were injured

2.3m people became homeless.

750,000 were women and girls of child bearing age

63,000 were pregnant

302,000 children displaced

US $4.3 billion physical damage + US $3.5 billion economic losses

US $7.8 billion total

Equivalent to 120% of Haiti’s 2009 GDP

60% of the government was destroyed

Within days 2 teams of telecommunications and technology experts deployed in Haiti

innovation

Relief workers crowd-sourced information – and acted on it: online maps of trapped victims

innovationcollaboration

Volunteers created open-source maps as guideshandheld GPS devices

Pétionville - Haiti's only golf course - transformed by makeshift tents

home to an estimated 55,000 people

Transformation of Pétionville documented through

mapping technology

But Sometimes things go wrong

80% of child trafficking is done on the internet

CyberCRIME

The watering hole

have or have-nots

Homo mobilis

Strong bonds vs. weak bonds

Huck Finn moment

80% of all cell phone calls originate from inside a car

Madrid 2004 - 191 people died

The invention of the single combustion engine

more cars, more congestion, more pollution, more noise

people are making more money. moving to suburbs. insufficient public transport outside cities. poor quality of public transport. people’s willingness to travel longer. work

hours not supported by public transport. leisure travel. prestige.

Suburbanization

Englandcost of time lost due to congestion = $44M

cost of air pollution = $6.5B

cost of noise pollution and vibration = $2.8B

7000 acres of rural land were used for roads/parking

110 scientific sites replaced by roads in a year

cost of accidents, injuries, death= $21B

England29% of London's energy use was for road transport

cost of heart disease (lack of exercise, obesity, stress) = $1.6B

loss of working day from heart disease = $3.1B

health cost due to emissions (asthma, etc.) = $31B

Americapopulation of America = 313 M

number of cars = 247M

carbon dioxide generated by cars = 1.530 B tons

vehicle emissions (VOCs, Carbon Monoxide) are 250% higher under congested conditions

cost of time lost/gas due to congestion = $256 B

America1/3 of land in most cities is used for roads/parking

number of injuries due to car accidents = 3.5 M

75% of trips to/from work were made by a single person in an automobile

50% of trips in NYC to/from work were made by a single person in an automobile

heart disease is the number one disease in America

cost of heart disease (lack of exercise, obesity, stress) = ??

The world avg

US Carbon footprint per person

Where we

should be

13 million hectares of the world’s forests are lost each year

60-70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon results from cattle ranches – Most the meat is exported to NA. This is now surging due to oil and soy prices

As of now, 10% of the coral reefs world wide have already been destroyed. At this rate of destruction, approximately 70% will be killed in the next 40 years.

Blind cows

whalesCommitting suicide

ewaste

The 300 million or more computers that are discarded contain a total of more than 1.2 billion pounds of lead. About 40% of the heavy metals, including lead, mercury and cadmium, in landfills come from electronic equipment discards..  The principle pathway of concern is lead leaching from landfills and contaminating drinking water supplies

We are dumping our e-waste from computers and electronic appliances in China, India and Africa. Most of this waste is processed in large-scale dismantling yards, where thousands of people are paid to break up the electronic equipment by hand, using a hammer and chisel.

The good die young

Chinese city Guiyu is the largest electronic waste site on earth, approximately 150.000 workers mostly children earn their living there by dismantling our "old" electronic gadgets.

Mercury – found in thermostats, position sensors, relays and switches (e.g. on printed circuit boards), telecommunication and mobile phones. Methyl mercury accumulates in living organisms and travels up the food chain.  Methyl mercury causes brain damage. The principle exposure pathway is through food.

Toxic chemicals including dioxins and furans were found to be elevated in women's breast milk living

near Electronic recycling plants, posing risk to breast-fed infants.

Unless Policy”The “No

What keeps me awake at night

The way we use the planet today is not sustainable. To act sustainably, we need to take social, environmental and economic responsibility.

Can science and technology improve the environment?

Can science and technology end poverty?

                      1.2 B people live with less than $1 per day

Less than 6% of the world population has 45% of the wealth

The way we behave and the choices we make as consumers have far–reaching effects on other people and environments around the world.

50,000 people who die each day from poverty, the deaths from hunger every three or four seconds, the 2.7 billion who live on less than two dollars a day. 

The poorest 20% receive only 1.4% of total world income.

20% of the world’s population consume 82.7% of the total world income.

Can science and technology reduce hunger?

The way we behave and the choices we make as consumers have far–reaching effects on other people and environments around the world.

risk

Visible bugs vs. invisible bugs

Consequences

technology paradox

we talk about it

Technology is a thing and a flow

Our stumbling block is that we think Technology is only a thing.

What is the aim of

science?

Choking off its own vitality

Future of

broad implications

ultimate ?

Can we find a better way to work together to solve the world problems?

Can we take the responsibility together?

In three decades we have moved from the famous admonition of Margaret Thatcher – “There is no alternative!” – to the rallying cry of campaigners who shout “Another world is possible!” but hesitate to pose another sentence.

Will we?

Thank you