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The Impact of Digital Technologies
Digital advancements have outpaced any innovation in history, transforming societies worldwide within two decades by enhancing connectivity, financial inclusion, access to trade and public services. This progress can level the playing field for many, withenabled technologies saving lives, diagnosing diseases, exting life expectancy, virtual learning environments providing progra students previously excluded, and blockchn-powered systems making public services more accessible and less bureaucratic due to . Big data supports responsive and accurate policymaking.
However, there's a digital divide. While connectivity has reached nearly half of the developing world’s population, it is slowing or even reversing among some demographics-women, elderly persons, those with disabilities, ethnic or linguistic minorities, indigenous groups, and residents of impoverished or remote areas. The gap between men and women who use the internet is 12 lower globally, although this narrowed in most regions from 2013 to 2017 but widened among least developed countries from 30 to 33.
Algorithms that amplify bias are a concern when they operate on non-diverse datasets. The tech sector's lack of diversity may not adequately address these challenges.
The future of work is being reshaped by technological advancements-creating new employment opportunities in sectors like renewable energy, electric vehicles, and building efficiency while potentially eliminating existing jobs for 800 million people by 2030 according to McKinsey reports. The ILO forecasts 24 million new jobs globally by 2030 through sustnable practices.
There is a consensus that adapting education to focus on STEM subjects, soft skills, resilience trning, and lifelong learning opportunities will be essential. Unpd work like childcare and elderly care must also receive better support as global populations age.
Data's potential impacts are significant-fostering rights or violating them by tracking personal movements, purchases, conversations, behaviors. Personal data could empower individuals if there were a framework for regulating its ownership more effectively. Data-driven technologies have the capacity to enhance welfare and promote universal rights under the right protections.
Social media connects nearly half of the global population, enabling real-time communication worldwide but also amplifying prejudices, sowing discord by providing platforms for hate speech and misinformation or reinforcing echo chambers that fragment societies.
Cyberspace's governance is a pressing issue as geopolitical tensions rise. The Secretary-General warns agnst a 'great fracture' between world powers with their own internet strategies, dominant currencies, trade rules, financial systems, and differing geopolitical military views. A universal cyberspace based on global standards for peace, security, rights, and sustnable development is seen as essential to mntning unity.
The global commitment for digital cooperation highlighted in the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel report address these developments.
For more information:
Sustnable Development Goals
The Age of Digital Interdepence: Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation
International Labour Organization Global Commission on the Future of Work
Secretary General’s Address at the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly
Secretariat’s Strategy on New Technology
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