what should every teacher know ablout sustainability goals?
if the world is serios about uniting around these
17 goals they can be expected to craete 3 billion new jobs-
this requires teachers to change what they teach (let alone
what is examoined or packaged as a professional qualificiation) - and all compoents of education sytem must
help
parents and children and safe development of the place communities where they live with a new ordr of gtrasparency needed
to ask and iteratively answer the questions needed for worldwide collaboreation
keynes said that
increasingly economists determine what futures are possoible out of a place- (whole civilosations have declined and faleln
becasue systems designs were not open enough to adapt as nimbly to chnage as nature does
so the world should have a
transparent answer to:
which 17 economists is most trusted to share a systems design that integrates every locality's
connection with which goal
are there some goals where the most effective and efficeint system design for one goal is
a win with another goals
here are some notes we have made in debating the above- we welcome your additions
rsvp isabella@unacknowledgedgiant.com
by 2025 the world will be spending about 2000 times more on communications than
1946- what we need to ceelbarte is every time this investmengt permits a leapfroging for
those who were never loprevu=iously
included :
examples if you were never on electricity grid, solar transforms a peopels livelihoods
if you were
never on a landline pfhome, universal mobile phone unlesashes all sort of learpfroging oppirtunities from communicating life
criotical indpfrmation to cashless banking for te prevuously unbankeo
so each of our 17 goals-smart economist needs
to have the technolgy advisers to relentlesly be asking how does leapfroging enter into achioeving this gopal and which market
leaders sectors need to nbe gtransparently valued as to whether they are copngrrunet with thi goal - the economist ;pointed
lout in surveysof entrepreneurial revolution begun in 1976 that we should antiipate that the wlorld of big orgasaitions may
coming to an end in many sectors- there are several reasons for this: all this spend on communications techology will be wasted
if life critical information kisnt distributed to everywhere that it needs to be locally applied; moreover one of teh main
reasons why teh first industrial revolution was chararterised by very uneven geographical growth and opoprtunities to innovate
was caused by a resource itself beking very uneven -take oil wells- if only an extremely small part of teh planet has an oil
well, then only thisse who lown the oil well gain the immediate wealth, wars over wonership have proven very common, the kind
or organisation needed tio distribute oil all over the world necessarily needs large scale- this isnt the csae with solar
which starts bottom-up at localities all over the world.
regarding goal 1 end poverty -this can be one
of the most wi0w-in connecting goals of all BUT
the trap with this gol is that its always easier to design a system
that aleviates poverty several rungs up
from the ultra poorest, the very poorest on earth- take banking for the
very poorest - their ytransactions will be smaller;
their localities will be the most remote; their risks may
be volatile (eg is war or climate diastaers part of the explanation'if why ther hy afre ultra looor);
since the 1960s
wherever the prefenenetial option poor has been apllied its proven to be the solution to ending extreme popverty:
go
live and learn with the poor , adadt your professional capabilities to serve their context, diagnose
what ssystems they
are traped in and call in oter relevant professionas; appltuy technolgy preferentially to the pppotr; alays ask is there a
leapfrog soultion that can apply
to them;
the most remarkable suvceess in edning extreme poverty among peopels
with nothong is bang;adesh;
it has both spent 25 yeras developing the POP model prir to digital inclusion -during this
time all the first 5 goals system designs need to reinpofre each other
1 end poverty
2 end hunger
3 access
to basic health with as much sefl-sufficiency of village service as poosible
4 education
5 gender inclusuion
ie girl empowerment
-additionally in bangaldesh while water was a critical issue it wasnt a full solution in the
pre-digital years (there were various zigs and zags - water wells that had worked in other developing countries turned out
to tap into a lot orf arsenic poluted water - a legacy of this place's geography -sanitation in form of pit latrunes and knowledge
eg boiling water were however ykey elements - another
issue that was sopecific to bangladesh was community tresilince
to both poreoarfe for and bounce back from the extrem forces of natroirue that bangaldesh can be subject to
and
been one of the furst to be finded with
experiemnts in universal mobile connectivity
