TECHNOLOGY and

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
CORE COMPONENTS OF
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• EQUALITY
• SUSTAINABILITY
• PRODUCTIVITY QUALITY
• EMPOWERMENT OF
LIFE
QUALITY OF LIFE
• General well-being of
people and societies
• “often associated with
standard of living”<wealth
and employment>
• Measured in several ways
• World Bank “ eradication
of poverty”
TECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN LIFE
• Medicine, education, business,
communication, transportation
• Science and technology
affecting human life (makes live
simpler, able to discover and
explore new things)
• Internet, communication,
social, education( research,
globalization, educational
games, distance education and
web seminars), business:
speed, accuracy, competition
Human
Flourishing and
Sustainable
Development
Human flourishing
“Human flourishing, or learning to be a human, is
central to Confucian humanism and its “creative
transformation” of the self through “an ever-
expanding network of relationships encompassing
the family, community, nation, world and beyond.”
Human flourishing…
Human flourishing…
Technology as a mode of revealing, a poeisis

• poeisis -
bringing forth

• making or
producing
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a purpose
(Aristotle)
Human flourishing and sustainability

https://good360.org/sustainability-scholarship/
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Sustainable development refers to a
mode of human development in which
resource use aims to meet human needs
while ensuring the sustainability of
natural systems and the environment, so
that these needs can be met not only in
the present, but also for generations to
come.
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Protect Technological Resources

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Provide Basic Human Needs
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Provide Basic Human Needs

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5 Control Climate Change

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The Role of Technology in Sustainable Development

Agricultural Technologies
A) improve productivity and soil and water
B) conservation, and maintain reasonable costs of
food and fiber.
C) improving soil fertility,
D) improving water availability
E) reducing food losses
F) enabling farmers to modernize as this becomes
feasible to them.
Energy Technologies
Technologies to provide
and improve energy
services for developing
world populations, more
efficient biomass to
reduce fuel use and
hazardous fuel emission,
simple motor driven
systems for pumping
water and energy efficient
water pumps, fertilizer
and mechanical tractions
 Technologies for Local Development
• Conducted of community-based projects
for resource efficient residential
architecture, solar greenhouses, small
farm systems, farmers markets, resource
recovery from municipal solid
waste, wastewater treatment, energy
generation, and health care systems.
Communication
Technology
• Communication and
information technologies
are playing an increasingly
important role in business,
trade, health, and
https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2015/september/sustainable-development-goals.html
SDG’s are…
• A set of 17 goals for the world’s future, through 2030
• Backed up by a set of 169 detailed targets
• Negotiated over a two-year period at the united
nations
• Agreed to by nearly all the world’s nations, on 25
Sept 2015
What is new and different about the 17
SDG’s

UNIVERSALITY
Goals apply to every nation … and every sector. Cities,
businesses, schools, organizations, all are challenged to act.
TRANSFORMATION
• Achieving these goals involves making very
big, fundamental charges in how we live on
Earth
PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT
PLANS 2017-2022

Accessible at
NEDA website
http://www.neda.gov.ph/2018/02
/13/philippine-development-plan-
2017-2022-2/