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New Technologies: What are the Opportunities and Challenges?
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Abstract
The United Nations Secretary General’s Strategy on New Technologies emphasises the huge
potential of new technologies “to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable
Development Agenda and to facilitate their alignment with the values enshrined in the UN
Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the norms and standards of
International Law” (United Nations, 2018, p. 3). But while new technologies can “offer us
powerful new ways to achieve our shared commitments to each and every one of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…. they are not risk-free, and some inspire anxiety
and even fear. They can be used to malicious ends or have unintended negative
consequences” (United Nations, 2018, p. 8). This issue of JL4D focusses on the benefits and
challenges of new technologies, in the context of SDGs, and in particular SDG4, the provision
of quality education for all (see https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/education/).
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2019-03
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)