August 15, 2022

Technology & Innovation Report 2021 - Catching Technological Waves: Innovation with Equity

UN Entity:

UNCTAD

SDGs:

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Innovation Area:

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Automation & Robotics
Blockchain
Digital Transformation
Drones & Satellite Imagery
Internet of Things
The Report examines the possibility of frontier technologies such as AI, robotics and gene-editing widening existing inequalities and creating new ones. Frontier technologies are essential for sustainable development, but they also could accentuate initial inequalities. It is up to policymakers to reduce this risk and make frontier technologies contribute to increasing equality. Low-and middle-income developing countries and the least developing countries cannot afford to miss the new wave of rapid technological change.
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