Keeping it simple: The next technology revolution
Summary
However, as highlighted at the Thinking Digital conference, held 19-23 May 2015 in Newcastle, UK, the technology that has had the most profound effects are the most simple ones — such as same-language subtitles for learning languages, or solar suitcases giving Kenyan maternity wards electricity. People tend to associate research and development activities with scientists garbed in long white coats, brooding over samples in a controlled environment with the gentle noise of machines in the background. Despite the several billions spent every year on R&D for creating technological innovations that dramatically change the way we work and perceive the world around us, many of these discoveries (including a portion of the ICT4D advancements) occur by chance. What struck her almost immediately was that a basic lack of electricity was a main contributor to an unnecessarily large number of mother and child mortalities in Nigerian maternity wards. This has been the message at various conferences worldwide: Technological innovations aren’t always the result of scientific acumen or spending innumerable hours brainstorming about technicalities and their complexities.
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