Book Launch 'Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development'

The likelihood of achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 rests on how innovative technologies could drive rapid changes and offer breakthroughs in tackling the development challenges. New technologies should be simple and low-cost to be adopted and deployed in low-income countries. The study is jointly conducted with the Brookings Institution and will focus on technologies that can be introduced soon and could be easily replicated across the world. The research will be published as a book entitled “Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development” targeted at policymakers as well as wide range of readers who have interests in the achievement of the SDGs.

On December 9, the JICA Ogata Research Institute and the Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution will launch the book on an online event. At this event, Co-editors Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution and Izumi Ohno, Senior Research Advisor, JICA Ogata Research Institute /Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) will provide an overview of the book. Then, a panel discussion with contributors follows, moderated by co-editor John McArthur, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution.

• "Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development" (Brookings website)

Program

-Opening remarks
Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution
Izumi Ohno, Senior Research Advisor, JICA Ogata Research Institute /Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Koji Makino, Director General, JICA Ogata Research Institute (Video Message)

-Video message from authors
-Panel discussion

Center for Sustainable Development, Brookings Institution
JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute)

English

Free

This event will be recorded and may be broadcasted on JICA Ogata Research Insitute’s website. If you choose to participate in a discussion, you are presumed to consent to the use of your comments in these recordings.