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Inclusive Disruptive Innovation: The Imperative of Technology Deployment
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT 2019 (GSS 2019) convened on May 13, 2019 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The theme of this year's Summit was “Inclusive Disruptive Innovation: The Imperative of Technology Deployment
The discussion at GSS 2019 centered around two fundamental observations. First, especially in the least developed countries, technical solutions for many problems that as recently as ten years ago were beyond the reach of most people at the bottom of the pyramid are now available and affordable. And second, despite the increased affordability and ubiquity of these new technologies, the global community is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Why? What accounts for the confluence of scientific abundance and scant progress on the ground? More importantly, what will it take to move newly discovered as well as existing scientific innovations from the shelves of research labs into the hands of the hundreds of millions of people in tens of thousands of communities in dozens of countries who need them to secure potable water, sanitation, electricity, high quality affordable health care, food security, and gender equity, among others?
GSS 2019 discussed practical, action-oriented proposals for harnessing STI for the SDGs so that the 4 billion people at the lower rungs of the income pyramid can enhance their quality of life while simultaneously boosting their income.
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT 2019 (GSS 2019) convened on May 13, 2019 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The theme of this year's Summit was “Inclusive Disruptive Innovation: The Imperative of Technology Deployment
The discussion at GSS 2019 centered around two fundamental observations. First, especially in the least developed countries, technical solutions for many problems that as recently as ten years ago were beyond the reach of most people at the bottom of the pyramid are now available and affordable. And second, despite the increased affordability and ubiquity of these new technologies, the global community is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Why? What accounts for the confluence of scientific abundance and scant progress on the ground? More importantly, what will it take to move newly discovered as well as existing scientific innovations from the shelves of research labs into the hands of the hundreds of millions of people in tens of thousands of communities in dozens of countries who need them to secure potable water, sanitation, electricity, high quality affordable health care, food security, and gender equity, among others?
GSS 2019 discussed practical, action-oriented proposals for harnessing STI for the SDGs so that the 4 billion people at the lower rungs of the income pyramid can enhance their quality of life while simultaneously boosting their income.