Preparing for Tomorrow’s Knowledge Networked Society

For Resilient Development

Big Trends and Big Data

ESCAP Colombo 5-6 September 2012

BUENOS AIRES - 1982

The Falklands/Malvinas War

MEXICO CITY - 1985

Earthquake

PHUKET - 2004

Tsunami

My Three Personal, Scary Experiences of Disaster

Key Technology Trends for Knowledge-Networked Societies and Resilience

in Asia-Pacific

•  Internet of Things •  Big Data •  Open Data •  Cloud Computing •  Changing Role of Content / Telecoms Convergence •  3D Printing

ICT Opportunities and Challenges

ESCAP Sponsored Paper

Policy Context

•  Social Progress, e.g. Health, Education, e-Government

•  Economic Sustainable Development

•  Environment

•  Resilience

Uniqueness of Asia-Pacific

1. Internet of Things

Sensor based Computing is Next Wave of Internet Evolution and Ecosystem

Billions of Connected Devices

1. Internet of Things – Use Cases in Asia Pacific

Improving Healthcare Services e.g. IP based medical devices in Thailand, Smart Workplace in Singapore Disaster Early Warning and Management e.g. Tsunami warning and Flood warning (dam monitoring) in Thailand Landslide warning (slope management) in Philippines Smart phone monitoring of radiation levels after Japan tsunami Environmental Control e.g. CO2 emission, pollution control in schools and during deforestation season

1. Internet of Things – Use Cases in Asia Pacific

Smart (or Advanced) Agriculture e.g. Precision Agriculture in Malaysia, Green House Monitoring

in Thailand Capacity Building in IoT e.g. initiating programmes to raise skills R&D partner for rest of world e.g. as a testbed

1. Internet of Things

•  Stimulates new value chains to achieve societal/economic benefits

•  Facilitates better choices/more efficient decisions •  Enables better connectivity •  Opportunity to create new partnerships across all

sectors and disciplines to achieve both technical and business model innovation

•  Importance of skills beyond engineering: Metadata, Web Analytics, People Centred Design Principles

1. Internet of Things – Approaches to Start

•  Focus on enablers and barriers to the ecosystem of applications and services of the Internet of Things

•  Heed natural textbook symptoms of early markets: fragmentation, lack of standards, bespoke solutions, etc

•  Evaluate different Government approaches. e.g. –  Challenge Based, Industry led, Publicly Funded

Competitions for Preparatory Studies, Demonstrators and R&D on Internet of Things Convergence (EU)

–  Hierarchical political leadership and funding, controlling channels to market through state directed enterprises, achieving value chain coordination, clarity and joined up thinking (China)

–  South Korea as one role model •  Stimulate knowledge exchange to join the dots  

1. Internet of Things – Some Personal Observations •  IoT coming from scientific, commercial background – moving

closer to People

•  Best Places to start are from Users/Customers and Business Models/Opportunities NOT technology

•  Prove Societal, Economic and Business Value and Demand

•  Define the Audience for Governance Discussions

•  Learning from the Lessons of the Evolution of Internet Governance to stimulate innovation and competition

•  Two Opposing Views: Big IT versus Bottom Up/Decentralised

•  Investment drives new services and applications  

2. Big Data

Transformational for Business and Government ‘

2. Big Data Changes Everything

•  More evidence based fast, informed, accurate decision making

- access reliable, trustworthy, timely information and gain insight rather than ‘gut’ feel •  Managing the data explosion to meet goals of: - enhancing competitiveness in private sector - driving efficiency and public sector accountability •  Skills for Data Scientist (Amazon): - Maths, Engineering, Writing, Curiosity and Scepticism

2. Big Data and Green Future Harnessing Data for Sustainability and Behavioural Change

e.g. cutting waste in food and supply chains, making it

easy to move around cities, smarter homes for energy use

Visualisation of Data as Form of Art: Hidden connections,

Patterns and Stories. Worth a 1000 words on climate change

Urban Planning: Cohesive, networked and sustainable

communities based on transparent, co-produced data  

2.  Big Data - Policy Challenges Are Policy Makers Ready for the Era of Big Data? e.g.

Security, Cultural Change to Link Data, Transparency

Policy Drivers for Innovation, e.g.

Data patterns for:

eligibility for benefits

spotting fraudulent activity

M-Healthcare to check patient records on the go

Managing the environment

Big Data, Ethics and Regulatory Challenges, e.g.

Data mining and Advertising, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Liability

2.  Big Data Investing in e-Research Technologies

•  Increasingly powerful distributed and collaborative computer networks, tools and data systems are reshaping access to information and expertise across the Humanities and Sciences.

•  e-Research technologies analyse and model complex interactions spanning such global issues as the financial system, climate change, ageing, terrorism, infectious diseases and urban design.

•  Semantic Web, Embedded Sensor Networks, the Internet of Things, Virtual Worlds, Grids, Cloud Computing, Metadata, Web Analytics are key technologies across research, government, business.

2. Big Data and Disaster Management Case Study: Social Media Faster than Official Channels

Social  and  News  Media  Enable  Es2ma2on  of  Epidemiological  Pa8erns  Early  in  the  2010  Hai2an  Cholera  Outbreak      

Rumi      Chunara  ,    Jason  R.    Andrews      and      John  S.      Brownstein  

Am.  J.  Trop.  Med.  86(1),  2012,  pp.  39–45  

http://healthmap.org/documents/Chunara_AJTMH_2012.pdf  

h8p://www.ushahidi.com/    

A  social  media  tracking  plaWorm  used  by  aid  agencies,  government  workers  and  others  during  events  as  a  way  to  track  vic2ms  and  other  incidents    

 

3. Open Data

Commercialisation of a State’s Data Resources

 

3. Open Data

‘The New Gold’ •  Governments increasingly opening up access to core public

datasets e.g. on transport, weather and health •  Governments helping industry exploit the opportunities created

through the release of this data, e.g. Open Data Institute in the UK •  Governments around the world are increasingly recognising that

making more of this information available will produce value in the wider economy, through: –  Building data and analytics markets with new products and

services –  Driving up standards and transparency in public services  

 European  Commission  Reckons  Huge  Poten5al  for  Open  Data:    

 €40  Billion  To  Its  Economy  

4. Cloud Computing

•  Product-based to Service-based Computing

•  Stimulating new value chains, innovation and connectedness

•  Business, Consumers and Governments as users

•  Opportunities for SMEs

•  Research Challenges  

Internet of Things, Big Data, Open Data, Cloud Governance Challenges – Who is the Audience to Engage? •  Policies and Regulations, e.g. Intellectual Property, Security, Privacy, Trust, Liability •  Government, Research Community and Industry working together •  Architecture /Network, e.g. Scale, Resilience, Performance, Bandwidth, Spectrum

•  Data brokerage, openness and integration •  Services and Applications with associated robust processes (across the Cloud) •  Service Level Agreements between Parties across the Value Chain(s) •  Business Models, Monetisation and Billing Mechanisms

•  Data Visualisation - suitable for all •  Crossing organisation and sectoral boundaries,

overcoming inter Departmental/Agency rivalries •  Emergency Response (e.g. prioritisation over other

applications) •  Standards, Interoperability, Protocols •  Awareness, Education and Training

5. Changing Role of Content/Media •  Technology usage is mainstream across demographics

•  Need for intuitive interfaces and seamless technology integration into devices becomes more important than ever before

•  Need for simple, attractive design to make technology invisible to the user

•  Create products and applications that will appeal to this expanded target audience

•  Technology “creation” now multidisciplinary

•  Technologists now aided by sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and domain experts in every field (from media to fashion to art to architecture)

•  Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration

 

 

5. New Forms of User Interaction with Technology Enhance Performance

•  Exploiting advances in Simulation, Visualisation, Interactivity and Immersive applications stimulate user involvement

•  Growing role of games and social networks to promote group collaboration

•  Creating engaging experiences with new forms of learning, e.g. education, business, health, cultural heritage, e-govt

•  Enhance education: life long learning, skills, productivity, inclusion, emergency response

•  Increasing evidence of measurable results for individuals and organisations in private/public sectors

 

5. Changing Role of Media

Accelerate Modernisation of Public Services •  Learn more from the private sector, NGOs in use of Digital Media

E.g. social networking, micro blogging, location based services,

crowd sourcing inputs (Twitter, email, SMS and Web), mapping,

business continuity of data networks for disaster management

•  Enhances transparency, accountability, inclusion, participation and dialogue between government and citizens

•  Diversify from / replace traditional channels to save money

•  Move to self-service experiences – ‘digital by default’

Open Governance, Cost Savings, Crisis Management, Save Lives

5. New Forms of Interaction - Triage Training UK Collaborative R&D 4 year project, USD 3m

5. New Forms of User Interaction with Technology Enhance Performance

in Disaster Management

•  Bringing together diverse communities in risk, resilience and response to save lives

•  Games and simulation technologies can help create better, more realistic training exercises for modern search and rescue scenarios

•  Substantial opportunities for international emergency response community, relevant policy-makers in government and ICT sector to work together

 

6. 3D Printing

6. 3D Printing Linking Digital and Physical Worlds

•  Factories of Future: on Desktop, Fab(ricator) Labs

•  Industrial (R)evolution, e.g. supply chain, sustainability impacts

•  Linking diverse areas: Commodities, Nano, Design, Software, Electronics, Materials Engineering

•  Major disruption and opportunity across all sectors

•  Substantial Intellectual Property challenges

•  Governments accelerating intensive knowledge exchange

TEDx – Chiang Mai 21st January 2012

6. 3D Printing Contour Crafting - House Building Prototype Robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlRI_Hm1Po&feature=player_embedded

Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) University of Southern California

•  Developing countries eradicating slums •  Emergency shelter construction where war and natural

disaster uproot thousands of people •  Building much cheaper and much faster •  Producing dignified housing rather than tents and boxes

Summary •  Digital technologies e.g. Internet of Things, Big Data, Open Data

addressing ever more complex societal challenges

•  New generation of user interfaces/interaction paradigms driving change

•  Acceleration of new value chains

•  Bridging digital and physical environments

•  Inseparability of policy, new technology and business models

•  Championing intensive knowledge exchange and transfer

•  Aggressively raising skills levels

•  Imperative for Government, Research and Business to work more closely together cross-sector and cross-disciplinary

Knowledge Networked Societies for Resilient Development

•  Societal challenges such as Climate Change, Professional Disaster Response and Ageing Society are more complex and interconnected with ever increasing data sets.

•  These challenges can only be resolved through cross - disciplinary collaboration, leveraging diverse

technological and sectoral expertise.

•  These challenges will transform sectors such as transport, healthcare, agri-food, construction and digital systems, requiring the development of new business models, technologies and manufacturing techniques.

ESCAP Paper Highlighting Potential Roles for Government in Asia Pacific

•  ICT for a Seamless Regional Information Space

•  Environment

•  Technology Transfer and Innovation Infrastructure

•  Education •  International Governance and Good Practices

Feedback invited

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Mervyn  Levin  

Founding  Director,  Levering  Ltd  

E-­‐mail  mervyn.levin@gmail.com  

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