Title: What Does Sustainable Developmentof Science and TechnologyLook Like in the 21st Century? Author: Daniel B. Oerther, PhD, PE, BCEE John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Health Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology Jefferson Science Fellow, Secretary’s Office of Global Food Security, Department of State Abstract: Science and technology innovation – from the discovery of fire to electricity to computers – has allowed the creation of new and more efficient global economies. As we have developed from hunter- gathering communities, to agricultural economies, and very recently to industrial, service, and knowledge economies, some groups across the globe have been left behind financially. Looking ahead towards 2050, the employment opportunities in human computation promise to: 1) solve challenging problems and 2) simultaneously grow economically. Human computation is a computer science technique in which a machine performs its function by out-sourcing certain steps to humans. Combined with the internet of things and additive manufacturing, the greatest untapped resource of the developing world is the vastly under-utilized intellectual capacity of billions across the globe. Rather than promote development policies and programs that incrementally bring the financially impoverished through the stages of personal and economic development, this presentation will argue that a leap frog approach relying upon science and technology innovation is the path we should pursue for sustainable development.   Biography: Dr. Daniel Oerther earned his doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois. He pursued additional graduate training in microbial ecology (Marine Biology Laboratory), public health (Johns Hopkins), and public administration (Indiana). He was a member of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati from 2000-9 including one year as Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Oerther is currently the John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Health Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. @DanielOerther describes himself as, “a social entrepreneur using design thinking to eliminate extreme poverty, ensure access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, and to protect global food security and nutrition.”

1. What Does Sustainable Development
of Science and Technology
Look Like in the 21st Century?
Daniel B. Oerther, PhD, PE, BCEE
John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Health Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Jefferson Science Fellow, Secretary’s Office of Global Food Security
Department of State

2. Outline
• Defining sustainable development
• A journey from the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) to the field of Human Computation
• STOP! Example
• Pula cloud
• Defining the internet of things
• Defining additive manufacturing
• Conclusions

3. On a sheet of paper…
1. Define sustainable development
2. Fold in half
3. Share with a neighbor

4. Our Common Future
• Sustainable development is development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.

5. Our Common Future
• Sustainable development is development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.

6. Defining “development”

7. Per capita

8. A dramatic increase in per capita

9. And the cause?

10. And the cause?

11. Our Common Future
• Sustainable development is development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs.

12. Defining “needs”

13. Defining “needs”

14. Defining “needs”

15. Our Common Future
• Sustainable development is development that
meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.
– the concept of 'needs', in particular the essential
needs of the world's poor, to which overriding
priority should be given; and
– the idea of limitations imposed by the state of
technology and social organization on the
environment's ability to meet present and future
needs.

17. Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WaSH)

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22. Communities, Government,
Healthcare Infrastructure

23. Partnerships, Nutrition,

24. Partnerships, Nutrition, Jobs

25. What is Human Computation?
• Need everyone to pretend to be driving a car
• I’m gong to show a series of signs
• Stand up when you would stop your car
• And sit back down when you would proceed

36. Human Computation

37. To Make Money

38. Pula Cloud; 1

39. Pula Cloud; 2

40. Pula Cloud; 3

41. Pula Cloud; 4

42. Internet of things

43. Internet of things
Soylent – a word processor
made of people
Shortn – a text shortening
service that cuts selected text
down to 85% of its original
length without changing
meaning or introducing
errors.

44. From:
http://www.theconnectivist.com/2014/05/infographic-the-growth-of-the-internet-of-things/

45. Additive manufacturing; 1

46. Additive manufacturing; 2

47. Additive manufacturing; 3

48. Additive manufacturing; 4

49. Conclusion
• Rather than promote development policies
and programs that incrementally bring the
financially impoverished through the stages of
personal and economic development,
• This presentation argues that a “leap frog
approach” -- relying upon science and
technology innovation -- is the path we should
pursue for sustainable development.