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Viewpoint: Can Digitalisation Save Us?
On the research side, sustainability scholars and practitioners have largely ignored digital upheavals. And pioneers of digitalisation have shown little interest in the most pressing global problems. This must change.
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Viewpoint: How 3-D Printing Can Jumpstart Developing Economies
3D printing has one more advantage in developing countries. Because additive production is entirely digitized, it’s easier for entrepreneurs to monitor and optimize the various steps in the manufacturing process.
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The Force Awakens: Artificial Intelligence Is Coming – And It Isn’t Going to Put Poor Countries Out of Work
On a scale of polarizing topics in global development, none comes close to artificial intelligence. Everyone seems to have an opinion, and the ongoing war-of-words has drawn in everyone from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. But according to Brinda Sapra, a researcher at the Institute of Financial Management and Research, these arguments tend to gloss over the nuances of AI’s likely economic impact. In particular, she argues that alarmists and “Luddites” have overhyped the valid concerns about AI’s impact on jobs in emerging markets. She makes the case for optimism in this provocative post.
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Report: Automation will trigger rise in slavery and abuse in SE Asia
Of five issues raised in the company’s 2018 Human Rights Outlook report, automation is identified as presenting the most “significant challenges to the reputations, operations, and supply chains of multinational companies, now and in the future.”
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Developing countries may need their own strategies to cope with job-taking robots
Reports by the McKinsey Global Institute and the World Bank both suggest that agricultural and industrial sectors have higher potential for automation than service sector jobs, which typically require creative thinking or face-to-face interaction.
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Maharashtra has most robotics jobs in India
According to data from global job site Indeed, there has been a rise of 186% in the number of job seekers for robotics profiles between May 2015 and May 2018.
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The Future of Work is Coming: MIT Seeks Tech Solutions to Adapt to the Impending Transformation
High-tech innovations like artificial intelligence, automation and the cloud are dramatically changing the nature of work. Some believe these changes will lead to massive job losses, while others imagine a future with plentiful and satisfying careers in industries we’ve yet to imagine. MIT’s Solve initiative is looking for solutions that ensure that no one is left behind by technology. Hala Hanna encourages innovators and entrepreneurs to enter Solve’s Work of the Future Challenge, which is open until July 1.
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Viewpoint: AI and Automation Advances Upend Old Models of Economic Development
Whether one should be optimistic or not about these emergent trends, one thing is clear; there is no getting off the train of technological progress anytime soon. Regardless of which side of the debate one is on, within current debates over AI and automation two injustices are repeatedly committed by both parties.
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