But the world was in the developing world was achieved more far from perfect. Moreover, such was a big push for solar energy, as the physical rapid progress had created new problems. Rising geography and low population density of much consumption standards unexpectedly ushered of the continent enabled the proliferation of in a new set of pressures: the improved food solar farms.
The Desertec initiative to create distribution system, for example, generated a massive thermal electricity plants to supply food production crisis due to greater demand. By , exponentially. The switch growth forever. With partnerships and networks increasingly key, philanthropies work in a more virtual way, characterized by lots of wikis, blogs, workspaces, video conferences, and virtual convenings.
Smaller philanthropies proliferate, with a growing number of major donors emerging from the developing world. Systems thinking and knowledge management prove to be critical skills, as philanthropic organizations seek to share and spread best practices, identify leapfrog 30 opportunities, and better spot problems in failed or weak states.
There are considerable flows of talent between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, and the lines between these types of organizations become increasingly blurred. Trade and foreign direct investment spread technologies in all directions and make products cheaper for people in the developing world, thereby widening access to a range of technologies.
The atmosphere of cooperation and transparency allows states and regions to glean insights from massive datasets to vastly improve the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources. An effective combination of government subsidies and microfinance means solar is used for everything from desalination for agriculture to wi-fi networks. It was research. Alec also had strong motivation. In cities and villages around the world where children used to be hungry, access to higher-calorie meals had produced alarming increases in the incidence of obesity and diabetes.
The demand for meat, in particular, was rising, but adding more animals to the planet created its own set of problems, such as more methane and spiking water demand. That was fast, thought Alec, as he searched around his desk for the fork. But no one Most nation-states could no longer afford their was prepared for a world in which large-scale locked-in costs, let alone respond to increased catastrophes would occur with such breathtaking citizen demands for more security, more Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development frequency.
In , the U. In Europe, Asia, South global economy that had entered the decade America, and Africa, more and more nation- still in recession.
Resource scarcities and both the weakness of states and the desperation trade disputes, together with severe economic of individuals. By , the Criminal networks also grew highly skilled global coordination and interconnectedness at counterfeiting licit goods through reverse that had marked the post-Berlin Wall world was engineering. In the context of weak health disintegrating, and safety nets evaporating, systems, corruption, and inattention to violence and crime grew more rampant.
Meanwhile, overtaxed mass deaths from a tainted anti-malarial drug militaries and police forces could do little to stop years later. The deaths and resulting scandals growing communities of criminals and terrorists sharply affected public confidence in vaccine from gaining power.
And so many patent thickets made the cross-pollination of — Aidan Eyakuze, Society for International Development, Tanzania ideas and research difficult at best.
Blockbuster pharmaceuticals quickly became artifacts of the past, replaced by increased production began to avoid vaccinating their children, and of generics. And once Technology hackers were also hard at work. In , a inboxes. Meanwhile, more sophisticated biofuel breakthrough in Brazil was protected as a hackers attempted to take down corporations, national treasure and used as a bargaining chip government systems, and banks via phishing in trade with other countries.
Desperate to protect themselves and their increasingly difficult. In some In , a network of renegade African scientists places, the collapse of state capacity led to a who had returned to their home countries after resurgence of feudalism. In other areas, people working in Western multinationals unveiled managed to create more resilient communities the first of a range of new GMOs that boosted operating as isolated micro versions of formerly agricultural productivity on the continent.
The very rich still the bleakness. In , it was de rigueur to build not a house but a high-walled fortress, guarded by armed personnel. Yet identifying pro-social entrepreneurs is a challenge, because verification is difficult amid so much scamming and deception.
They also pursue a less global 38 approach, retreating to doing work in their home countries or a few countries that they know well and perceive as being safe.
In a world of trade disputes and resource scarcities, much effort focuses on finding replacements for what is no longer available. But in a world full of deceit and scamming, his skills at discerning fact from fiction and developing quick yet deep local knowledge were highly prized.
His instructions were simple: focus not on the dysfunctional which, Trent could see, was everywhere but rather look through the chaos to see what was actually working. Find local innovations and practices that were smart and good and might be adopted or implemented elsewhere. On-time flights were rare these days, and the plane got diverted three times because of landing authorization Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development snafus.
At the Gaborone airport, it took Trent six hours to clear customs and immigration. The airport was bereft of personnel, and those on duty took their time scrutinizing and re-scrutinizing his visa. He even saw a mother with a baby in one arm and an AK in the other. The organization that hired him was probably more right than it realized in calling 40 it guerrilla philanthropy.
As expected, counterfeit vaccines were being manufactured. But so were GMO seeds. And synthetic proteins. And a host of other innovations that the people who hired him would love to know about. Vigorous on the U. Depressed reverse the steady downward pull. With with economies dependent on exporting to their focus trained on managing the serious formerly rich markets.
Without the ability to political and economic instability at home, the boost economic activity, many countries saw Chinese sharply curtailed their investments their debts deepen and civil unrest and crime in Africa and other parts of the developing rates climb.
The United States, too, lost much of world. Communities lingering concern that they could in the future. So did xenophobia, as companies dire circumstances. Great numbers of immigrants who world the rural-urban divide gaped wider, had resettled in the developed world suddenly as more limited availability and access to found that the economic opportunities that had resources like IT and trade made survival drawn them were now paltry at best.
By , and self-sufficiency much more challenging London had been drained of immigrants, as they for non-urban dwellers. Communications and headed back to their home countries, taking interactions that formerly served to bridge one their education and skills with them.
Internet access had not progressed far beyond its status, in part because And their homelands needed them. Communities grew tighter. Micro- begun to generate a self-sustaining dynamic manufacturing, communal gardens, and before the crisis, such as Indonesia, patchwork energy grids were created at the local Rwanda, Turkey, and Vietnam. Areas with good level for local purposes. Nowhere was students in isolated pockets in the developing this more true than in India, where localized world to access knowledge and instruction experiments proliferated, and succeeded or through the written word and other media like failed, with little connection to or impact on video.
More complex frustrating. In the absence of enduring trade and engineering solutions proved even more difficult FDI channels, local experiments and innovations to develop and diffuse. For those looking, it was difficult to find or access By , collaboration was finally improving, creative solutions. Yet making innovations difficult to replicate. The meta-goal in this world is to scale up: to identify and build capacity from the individual through the institutional, because without global coordination, innovation cannot scale on its own.
Philanthropy requires a keen screening capacity to identify highly localized solutions, with specialized pockets of expertise that make partnerships more challenging and transitions between sectors and issues harder to achieve. Philanthropy operations are decentralized; headquarters are less important, and the ability to quickly access different parts of the world and reconfigure teams on short notice is key. As a result, capacity and knowledge are distributed more widely, allowing many small pockets of do-it-yourself innovation to emerge.
However, the transfer of cutting-edge technology through foreign direct investment is rare. She groaned, grabbed the armrests, and held on as the plane dipped sharply before finally settling into a smooth flight path. Lidi hated small planes. In this, Lidi had her work cut out for her. And the creative redundancy was shocking! Just last week, in Mali, Lidi had spent time with a farmer whose co-op was developing a drought-resistant cassava.
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