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Supporting social technology

Synonyms:
Using technology ethically
Providing social technologies
Improving social technologies
Broader:
Improving
Using technology
Evolving inclusive technologies
Using market forces to improve global environment
Narrower:
Developing health systems
Developing design aptitudes
Advancing industrial ergonomics
Appropriating relevant technologies
Applying ethical considerations during biotechnology transfer
Constrains:
Stagnating culturally
Facilitates:
Initiating social methods
Employing appropriate technology
Facilitated by:
Determining applicable technology
Conducting technology assessments
Establishing environmental ethics
Reviewing advances in medical technology
Problems:
Denial of the right to procreate to the severely mentally handicapped
Irresponsible transfer of sensitive technologies
Stagnating social methods
Values:
Unsociable
References:
Brodey, W M: Human Enhancement through Evolutionary Technology
Ericson, Richard F: The Impact of Cybernetic Information Technology on Management Value Systems
Das, Mitra and Kolack, Shirley: Technology, Values and Society: social forces in technological change
Cecil, Andrew R, et al: Traditional Moral Values in the Age of Technology
Subjects:
Society → Social
Technology → Technology
Development → Reform
Innovative change → Change
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureGOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
 

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