11/04/19

数字化可以拯救我们吗?

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  • Digitalisation has been overlooked in global development
  • Technologies can improve access to health, education, knowledge
  • ‘World commission’ on sustainability needed for the digital age

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The power of digital to solve global problems has been too long ignored, sayDirk MessnerandIna Schieferdecker德国全球变更咨询委员会(WBGU)

全球problems threaten human kind:climate change,社会凝聚力的不平等和侵蚀的增加是连根拔起社会。

需要促进全球合作,但联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯(Antonio Guterres)正确地批评了世界秩序的混乱和民族主义的概念。

“What if we use the full potential of digitalisation to address the most pressing challenges our societies face?”

Dirk Messner and Ina Schieferdecker, WBGU

在这种危机情况下,技术变革和数字化正在加速,但是没有人真正关注关键问题:如何如何才能如何digitalisationhelp to solve the world`s most pressing problems?

Artificial intelligence (AI), automated decision-making and virtual spaces will change the world profoundly and digitalisation will have fundamental impacts onsustainability

Yet the 17 goals on sustainable development (SDGs) to which the global community committed in 2015, barely mention digitalisation.

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.

If we want digitalisation to make us more sustainable, we urgently need to govern this process politically. Until now, digitalisation has driven established growth patterns, which are accelerating global warming and largescalebeplay足球体育的微博环境的degradation.

让我们从全球发展的角度进行积极的思考,在“我们有梦想”的情况下,基于我们在我们的可持续性机会的基础上德国全球变更咨询委员会(WBGU)报告。

What if we use the full potential of digitalisation to address the most pressing challenges our societies face?

In developing countries, technological advances would enable digital access for all toeducation, libraries, and first-class university teaching.

为了追求普遍的医疗保健,社会传播技术和虚拟空间将使农村和低收入地区的人们能够获得医疗服务和医生。

Around the world we would use AI to modernise educational and知识systems. Digital tools would help create circular economies, radically reduce greenhousegas emissions, promote renewable18beplay and monitor and protect ecosystems.

虚拟空间将启用communicationand joint learning between people around the globe, fostering a global culture of cooperation. Global awareness can emerge which helps us to solve global problems.

In short, our dream is using powerful digital tools to work for a better world. So, what is keeping us from achieving this dream? The reality is thatgovernmentsin the Global North and Global South, and international development banks, are not yet prepared to mobilise this potential.

如今,数字现实与我们的“可持续数字化梦想”完全不同。在许多国家,数字化未能利用向可持续经济体的过渡,而是推动资源和排放密集型的增长。

现在必须将数字化朝向公共利益和可持续性转变。

We therefore call for investment in digital capabilities at all these levels and recommend a UN summit on “Sustainability Transformations in the Digital Age” in 2022 – 30 years after the impactful Earth Summit in Rio.

我们相信,一个关键的结果这样的峰会上寿ld be a charter naming the fundamental topics relevant to sustainable shaping of the Digital Age and identifying political starting points.

In preparation for this, the WBGU recommends setting up a “World Commission on Sustainability in the Digital Age” modelled on the UN Commission on Environment and Development, established in 1983.

That commission published the report “Our Common Future” in 1987 which framed much of what would become the UN’s Agenda 21 action plan for sustainable development, and the 27 principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.

Over 30 years later we ask the global community to expand our understanding of “Our Common Future” to “Our Common Digital Future.” We believe digitalisation is key to creating a more sustainable, just and prosperous world for what is soon to be a global population of 10 billion people.

Prof. Dirk Messner, United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security, Co-Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

Prof. Ina Schieferdecker, Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Co-Director Fraunhofer FOKUS, Co-Director Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society