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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
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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?
Security, Privacy, Trust, Liability
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Policies and Regulations, e.g. Intellectual Property,
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Government, Research Community and Industry working together
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Architecture /Network, e.g. Scale, Resilience, Performance, Bandwidth, Spectrum
•  Data brokerage, openness and integration
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Services and Applications with associated robust processes (across the Cloud)
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Service Level Agreements between Parties across the Value Chain(s)
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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)
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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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