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Concluding Thoughts
The third theme highlights the potential value
DEVELOPMENT-LED
of scenarios as one critical element of strategy
INTERVENTIONS ARE OFTEN NOT development. These narratives have served to
CAREFUL ENOUGH ABOUT WHAT kick-start the idea generation process, build the
THE TECHNOLOGY NEEDS IN future-oriented mindset of participants, and
ORDER TO WORK ON A THREE, provide a guide for ongoing trend monitoring
and horizon scanning activities. They also offer
FIVE, OR SEVEN YEAR CYCLE.
a useful framework that can help in tracking and
WHAT SCALE IS REQUIRED making sense of early indicators and milestones
FOR DEPLOYMENT TO BE that might signal the way in which the world is
SUCCESSFUL? WHAT LEVEL OF actually transforming.
EDUCATION IS NEEDED While these four scenarios vary significantly
TO BE SUSTAINABLE IN TERMS from one another, one theme is common to them
OF MAINTENANCE? HOW DO all: new innovations and uses of technology
THESE REQUIREMENTS EVOLVE will be an active and integral part of the
international development story going forward.
OVER TIME?
The changing nature of technologies could
– Isha Ray, Professor, University of shape the characteristics of development and the
California-Berkeley School of Information, kinds of development aid that are in demand. In
Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development scale, expectations about the provision of
Energy, and Resources Group
a future in which technologies are effectively
adopted and adapted by poor people on a broad
services could fundamentally shift. Developing
a deeper understanding of the ways in which
technology can impact development will better
prepare everyone for the future, and help all of
us drive it in new and positive directions.
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