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$5-7-tr shortfall to achieve sustainable development goals: ICT4D Conference
Rapid growth of digital technology will enable several segments of business and industry to overcome the present challenges, observe experts, who participated at ICT4D Conference. The four-day conference was concluded here on Thursday.
Hyderabad: Rapid growth of digital technology will enable several segments of business and industry to overcome the present challenges, observe experts, who participated at ICT4D Conference. The four-day conference was concluded here on Thursday.
“The principles of digital development give a good framework to address development challenges. Several business segments, private and public sectors have more in common than they think and there’re lessons that each can learn from the other to create bigger, more sustainable impact,” agreed Dr Kyriacos Koupparis, Regional Science, Technology and Innovation Advisor (Asia), United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
“There are many things in our world today that hinder development. But technology can help overcome these challenges,” said Cherian Thomas, CEO, World Vision India on the opening panel session.
To achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), scalability is critical. Lauren Woodman, CEO, NetHope, said that the development sector can learn from the digital sector how it can adapt in order to achieve the SDGs. “There is a $5-7 trillion shortfall to achieve the SDGs. This is a big gap, but tech can fill it, if we ask ourselves what we can do differently,” said Woodman.
However, Dr Partha Chakrabarti, Director and Professor at IIT-Kharagpur, emphasized that while technology provides ways to solve problems, these must be appropriate innovations that use people’s own creativity to help themselves in their everyday activities: “Disruptive hi-tech innovations will only ever make people laborers, leaving them behind. We have to use people’s creativity to help them solve challenges.”
Prashant Shukla, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India detailed one such program – Digital Village Harisal – India’s first smart village. Microsoft and its private and NGO sector partners worked to create a digital village model that can be replicated at scale, to change the lives of an off-grid rural population.
