Risk Science Center director Andrew Maynard and Tim Harper – Director of CIENTIFICA Ltd. – have just had a new report published by the World Economic Forum on the role of technology innovation in building a sustainable future.
The paper looks at how we develop and use technology within an increasingly complex and interconnected society, and how we can translate this into developing timely, cost effective and acceptable solutions to pressing global challenges.
In an associated post on ForumBlog.org – WEF’s blog – Maynard and Harper consider how the report and its recommendations tie in with the World Economic Forum’s newly-launched Risk Response Network.
They conclude:
Technology has vastly improved the quality of life for the majority of the world’s population, and provides a wide variety of solutions in food, water, and energy. But the safe and successful development and use of new technologies is far from certain. If we are to continue to improve the quality of life on a planet challenged with supporting 9 billion people, critically important initiatives such as the Risk Response Network must enable more sophisticated approaches to how we develop new technologies, and use them to reduce emerging risks.
The paper, titled Building a Sustainable Future: Rethinking the Role of Technology Innovation in an Increasingly Interdependent, Complex and Resource-constrained World, comes out of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies – which Maynard chairs. It can be read and downloaded here.
Maynard will be discussing science, technology and risk at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos next week.
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