Meeting Grand Challenges for the 21st Century. Global Agenda Council Members met to share ideas and real options to address the grand challenges of the 21st century.
With input from people around the world -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century.
From urban centers to remote corners of Earth, the depths of the oceans to space, humanity has always sought to transcend barriers, overcome challenges, and create opportunities that improve life in our part of the universe. In the last century alone, many great engineering achievements became so commonplace that we now take them mostly for granted. Technology allows an abundant supply of food and safe drinking water for much of the world. We rely on electricity for many of our daily activities. We can travel the globe with relative ease, and bring goods and services wherever they are needed. Growing computer and communications technologies are opening up vast stores of knowledge and entertainment. As remarkable as these engineering achievements are, certainly just as many more great challenges and opportunities remain to be realized. While some seem clear, many others are indistinct and many more surely lie beyond most of our imaginations. Hope today such discussion from people like Valerie amos can be a begining of a path to the future.
This meeting was attended by the following key people;
• Céline Cousteau, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CauseCentric Productions, USA; Global Agenda Council on Oceans.
• Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director-General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden; Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment.
• Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor of Economics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; Young Global Leader Alumnus; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability.
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