Emerging Technology Trends is a series of thematic publications on emerging technology. Every year a specific emerging technology, and its impact on development, is presented.
The series promotes the wide scale deployment of emerging technology to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It also shared information on emerging technology and facilitate the implementation and use of ICT technologies when necessary. The Emerging Technology Trends series will also discuss the development and evolution of emerging technology in developing countries.
Potential themes include:
- Data (big data) infrastructure, storage, inference and applications
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) for development
- IoT technologies, infrastructure and applications (smart societies)
- Blockchain technologies, infrastructure and applications
- 5G
- Low earth orbit satellites, Small satellite, Satellite, HAPS, etc.
These publications include recommendations and guidelines and will be used to strengthen capacity building development on emerging technology.
