Abstract

This publication aims to inform and influence the strategic deployment of digital technologies in developing Asia to help tackle climate change, build climate and disaster resilience, and enhance environmental sustainability.

Highlights

  • Digital technology (DT) as a development tool provides unique opportunities for developing countries to leapfrog intermediate steps in development while improving the quality and broadening the reach of public services

  • Distributed ledger technology (DLT), including blockchain, hold a different set of promises for climate change and sustainability.74 (Other types of distributed ledger technology (DLT), which this publication will not go into, include Directed Acyclic Graph or Hashgraph.) A DLT represents a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations, and with no central administrator

  • Another example of Stage III technologies in disaster risk management (DRM) is that connected sensors and/or Internet of Things (IoT) may help in providing water level and flood warnings as well as foresee other disasters such as earthquakes and potential landslides in prone areas, assisting the civilians and authorities to take drastic action on such issues

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Summary

Introduction

Digital technology (DT) as a development tool provides unique opportunities for developing countries to leapfrog intermediate steps in development while improving the quality and broadening the reach of public services. Big data (see Box 2 for a definition and explanation), and better algorithms (an instruction of different steps to complete a specific task) have in recent years helped propel recent breakthroughs in AI, including a broad range of applications in climate-related fields with examples including clean distributed energy grids, precision agriculture, sustainable supply chains, environmental monitoring and enforcement, and enhanced weather and disaster prediction and response.. Distributed ledger technology (DLT), including blockchain, hold a different set of promises for climate change and sustainability. (Other types of DLT, which this publication will not go into, include Directed Acyclic Graph or Hashgraph.) A DLT represents a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations, and with no central administrator.75 It is recognized as a GPT for a wide range of economic activities, as long as these activities are based on the consensus of a database of transaction records.

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Selecting Digital Technologies to Address Development Objectives
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