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As part of Frontier 2030: Fourth Industrial Revolution for Global Goals Platform
Unlocking Technology
for the Global Goals
In collaboration with PwC
January 2020
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Unlocking Technology for the Global Goals
Contents
About Frontier 2030: Fourth Industrial Revolution for Global Goals Platform
Foreword
Executive summary
Chapter 1: A decade to act: the challenge and the opportunity
Chapter 2: State of play: technology and the Global Goals
Chapter 3: Barriers to scaling and the risks of getting it wrong
Chapter 4: Enabling Tech for Good
Chapter 5: A call to action
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Annex
Contributors
Endnotes
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About Frontier 2030: Fourth Industrial
Revolution for Global Goals Platform
The potential of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to
tackle major global challenges – such as poverty, climate
change, nature loss and inequality – is immense, yet this
potential is far from being reached. To this end, the Forum’s
Centre for Global Public Goods is scaling up efforts to
proactively engage stakeholders to channel Fourth Industrial
Revolution innovations towards positive social, economic
and environmental outcomes through a series of initiatives.
Frontier 2030 – a new Fourth Industrial Revolution for
Global Goals Platform, which this report supports, aims at
facilitating the application of advanced technologies to help
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (herein referred
to as the Global Goals). It builds on calls from the United
Nations (UN) High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation for a
multistakeholder approach that brings together technology
companies, government, civil society and international
organization leaders to collaborate and unlock broader
barriers to responsible deployment of new technologies to
deliver positive societal impact.
Frontier 2030, launched at the World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting in January 2020, will provide a focal point for
the mobilization of a more concerted and cooperative effort
to apply advanced technologies to the achievement of the
Global Goals. It will serve, on one hand, as a global node and
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facilitator of networks of providers and users of technology
solutions for sustainable development; on the other, it will
advance intentional curated efforts, partnership building,
government capacity development and finance to fast track
new technology solutions for the Global Goals. The effort
will be organized and delivered in cooperation with partner
institutions, including leading international organizations.
As a complementary initiative, UpLink is also being
launched – a new digital platform to crowdsource ideas
and solutions from younger generations and entrepreneurs
to progress the Global Goals. Together with the Forum’s
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network – a hub
that works with governments around the world to shape
policy frameworks – these initiatives form vital building
blocks of the Forum’s efforts to accelerate the benefits of
the Fourth Industrial Revolution for inclusive, sustainable
and human-centred development.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been at the heart of
the Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution for Public Goods
journey; it is a key knowledge partner for Frontier 2030 and
has led this new report to coincide with the platform launch.
The World Economic Forum, PwC and other partners
will work with a community of influence to mobilize new
technologies for the benefit of the Global Goals.
Foreword
Fourth Industrial Revolution innovations, including AI, blockchain and the
internet of things (IoT), are having an increasing impact on economies and
societies. Distinctions between the physical, digital and biological realms are
becoming increasingly blurred, and cyber physical systems are emerging.
It is rapidly transforming business models and industries globally, with
huge advances at the cutting edge of many sectors, including healthcare,
agriculture, energy, education and transport. The speed and scale of advances
in the past few years alone has been immense: The global big data market
almost doubled in market size in three years with a total revenue of $49 billion
in 2019;
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worldwide spending on artificial intelligence (AI) was approximately
$35.8 billion in 2019, with a 44% increase from 2018,
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and for blockchain
solutions nearly $2.9 billion was spent in 2019, an increase of 88.7% from
2018.
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The first fully electric aeroplane made a successful virgin voyage in
November 2019
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and 5G is no longer a potential future but the reality in more
than 13 countries.
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Meanwhile, the risks associated with technologies went
from theoretical to real as a research centre used CRISPR gene editing for the
birth of two babies,
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democratic elections were influenced through the misuse
of technologies
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and, as self-driving cars were increasingly introduced in cities
around the world, so were the first casualties.
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As such technological advances bring us daily benefits, they also raise a
host of complex questions and broad concerns about how technology will
affect society and our planet. Previous industrial revolutions have radically
improved the standards of living for human beings, but not only are these gains
unevenly distributed across geographies and demographics, they have come
with the degradation of our planet’s health.
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Today’s technological revolution
must break this pattern and, for the first time, deliver sustainable, inclusive
economic growth. In 2015, United Nations member states agreed on the
Global Goals for a better world by 2030; 17 Goals that provide a framing for
society’s grand challenges. Progress towards delivering upon many of these
goals is far off track, from eliminating extreme poverty
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to combating climate
change and rapid nature loss. These Goals could not provide a clearer framing
for where we need to assertively point the power of new technologies to deliver
for humanity.
Celine Herweijer
PwC Global Innovation and
Sustainability Leader, and
Partner, PwC United Kingdom
Ensuring that we harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution responsibly to
accelerate progress to the Global Goals is a huge opportunity for the 2020s.
As this report shows, although the landscape of opportunity is significant and
new technologies could support progress across the Goals, substantial barriers
and risks exist. Multiple challenges can prevent scaling of new solutions,
whether from lack of basic infrastructure, expertise, data and adequate market
incentives, or through to trust, performance and security concerns. Moreover,
if these technologies are not scaled in a smart and sustainable way, they could
exacerbate problems for people and the planet, putting further strains on our
society and environment. Well-known examples include how to use data while
ensuring people’s right to privacy, protecting against the misuse of AI for crime
or warfare, or to influence democracy, job displacement from automation and
the energy consumption challenges of new technologies such as blockchain.
For the Fourth Industrial Revolution to be successful, it will need to work
for the economy, society and environment, and for the benefit of everyone.
Fortunately, many of the innovations and applications we have identified
could be used across a much broader range of Global Goals, geographies
and demographics. It is time to get the enabling environment right to deliver
on this enormous promise, including through leadership and new forms of
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Antonia Gawel
Head, Innovation & Circular
Economy, Centre for Global
Public Goods, World
Economic Forum

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