scholarly journals Business opportunities and sustainable development

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogunlade R. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Development Paradigm

The conventional development paradigm appears to have failed the poor regions of the world. It has led to a widening gap between rich and poor, while the world as a whole is getting richer. Attempts to integrate social and environmental concerns into the conventional development paradigm have led to the concept of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Business opportunities and sustainable development

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogunlade R. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Development Paradigm

The conventional development paradigm appears to have failed the poor regionsof the world. It has led to a widening gap between rich and poor, while theworld as a whole is getting richer. Attempts to integrate social andenvironmental concerns into the conventional development paradigm have ledto the concept of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Is Development a Lost Paradise? Trade, Environment, and Development: A Triadic Dream of International Law

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upendra D. Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The Right ◽  
Developed Nations

After providing a brief background on international law, the history of the right to development is discussed. International law, as it exists today, has been abused by developed nations in their position of power over underdeveloped nations. The right to development, first formalized by the United Nations in 1986 with the Declaration on the Right to Development, was meant to give people of the developing world a right to development. However, the right to development has been supplanted by the concept of sustainable development, as orchestrated by the developed nations. It was hopeful that organizations like the World Trade Organization would implement the right to development through trade; however, these organizations have become merely a tool for the developed nations and associated corporations to continue their dominance over developing nations. Environmental concerns in recent times have shifted the international focus from the right to development to sustainable development, and the right to development has been overlooked. A legal right to development must be recognized before sustainable development can be applied as a tool to benefit underdeveloped nations through environmental and trade-related policy.

Can Blockchain Really Help the Poor?

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-156
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Solar Battery ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Digital Commerce

It is the firm belief of the authors that Blockchain and other frontier technologies will be an important tool for social impact globally. It is now possible, with technology, to envision a world where everyone has an identity, where everyone can be connected to the economic system, where farmers get fair deals for their crops, and land registration is incorruptible. Advances in solar, battery, and digital commerce make it possible to imagine even the smallest village in Africa being able to produce and trade small amounts of energy. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were a visionary leap to a future state where the world can be a better place for humankind. However, they will not be achieved without harnessing the potential of technology. Nor will they be reached alone. In this chapter, the authors profile innovative case studies in Blockchain, which, if brought to scale, may realise the technology's potential. It is through this learning and experimentation that we will learn how to deploy this technology globally for social impact.

Combining Instrumental and Contextual Approaches: Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Liao
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Water Remediation ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich

Hailed as the “foundation of the next industrial revolution,” nanotechnology is reshaping the landscape of technological innovation and creating hope around the world. Some believe that nanotechnology can address the critical needs of developing countries, but others are less optimistic. At one end of the spectrum, scientists predict that, among other accomplishments, nanotechnology can alleviate poverty, provide safe drinking water, and cure diseases. At the other end, skeptics warn that nanotechnology can further widen the gap between the rich and the poor, contributing to an already imbalanced global landscape. What can nanotechnology bring to the 21st century? How and in what ways should it intersect with law, public policy, and the plight of the developing world?This article argues that the international community can harness nanotechnology to create sustainable development, particularly in the field of water remediation and treatment, but it must learn from its past missteps and adopt a strategy that combines two competing theories: instrumentalism and contextualism. Instrumentalism is the concept that technology is superb and stakeholders can easily transfer it from one application to another. In contrast, contextualism places technology in a socioeconomic context and conditions technological success on the stakeholders’ ability to meet local needs.

Inventing the Future of E-Health

2010 ◽  
pp. 2244-2248
Author(s):  
José Aurelio Medina-Garrido ◽  
María José Crisóstomo-Acevedo
Keyword(s):  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Definition Of

E-health involves the use of information and communications technologies to improve health in general and the healthcare system in particular (Alvarez, 2002; Chau & Hu, 2004; Roger & Pendharkar, 2000). Healthcare, one of the largest industries in the world, suffers from some inefficiencies and inequities in both service provision and quality. Some of these problems are due to the poor management of the information flows (Kirsch, 2002). In this respect, there are business opportunities for e-health. But to understand what the future holds for e-health, we need to find a precise definition of the concept and identify the possible sources of business. This article is structured as follows. The second section, the background, defines the concept of e-health. The third section outlines some of the business opportunities in the area of e-health based on the communications platform that is the Internet, and discusses some practical guidelines for e-health businesses to create value. The fourth section discusses the low level of adoption of e-health at present, as well as the future trends, in which e-health will presumably grow. e-health is also expected to be used to reduce the disparities in the population in access to healthcare, and for the treatment of the chronically ill. The fifth section is dedicated to the final conclusions.

Post Modern Public Administration in the Land of Promise: The Basic Ecclesial Community Movement of Mindanao

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Holden
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Basic Ecclesial Communities ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
Community Movement

AbstractRecent discussions of sustainable development have come to see the dominant neoliberal development paradigm receive criticism for creating environmental degradation coupled with increased inequality of wealth and power. In the developing world, sustainable development has increasingly come to be sought by postmodern public administration, which consists of efforts undertaken by the poor themselves to improve their conditions in life without changing power relations in society. This paper discuss the efforts undertaken by the Roman Catholic Church's Basic Ecclesial Communities, on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, to improve the conditions of the poor without changing power relations in society. The paper discusses the emergence of the Basic Ecclesial Communities, the programs they provide for their members, the successes, and failures of these programs in providing participatory sustainable development, and the outlook for the future.

Inventing the Future of E-Health

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
José Aurelio Medina-Garrido ◽  
María José Crisóstomo-Acevedo
Keyword(s):  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Definition Of

E-health involves the use of information and communications technologies to improve health in general and the healthcare system in particular (Alvarez, 2002; Chau & Hu, 2004; Roger & Pendharkar, 2000). Healthcare, one of the largest industries in the world, suffers from some inefficiencies and inequities in both service provision and quality. Some of these problems are due to the poor management of the information flows (Kirsch, 2002). In this respect, there are business opportunities for e-health. But to understand what the future holds for e-health, we need to find a precise definition of the concept and identify the possible sources of business. This article is structured as follows. The second section, the background, defines the concept of e-health. The third section outlines some of the business opportunities in the area of e-health based on the communications platform that is the Internet, and discusses some practical guidelines for e-health businesses to create value. The fourth section discusses the low level of adoption of e-health at present, as well as the future trends, in which e-health will presumably grow. e-health is also expected to be used to reduce the disparities in the population in access to healthcare, and for the treatment of the chronically ill. The fifth section is dedicated to the final conclusions.

Can Blockchain Really Help the Poor?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1593-1621
Author(s):  
Jane Thomason ◽  
Sonja Bernhardt ◽  
Tia Kansara ◽  
Nichola Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Solar Battery ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Digital Commerce

It is the firm belief of the authors that Blockchain and other frontier technologies will be an important tool for social impact globally. It is now possible, with technology, to envision a world where everyone has an identity, where everyone can be connected to the economic system, where farmers get fair deals for their crops, and land registration is incorruptible. Advances in solar, battery, and digital commerce make it possible to imagine even the smallest village in Africa being able to produce and trade small amounts of energy. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were a visionary leap to a future state where the world can be a better place for humankind. However, they will not be achieved without harnessing the potential of technology. Nor will they be reached alone. In this chapter, the authors profile innovative case studies in Blockchain, which, if brought to scale, may realise the technology's potential. It is through this learning and experimentation that we will learn how to deploy this technology globally for social impact.

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

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