Presenting Global Mega-trends pertaining to Technology, Urban Planning, Health, Energy and Climate Change and their effect on education, government and private sector

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Global Megatrends and
Challenges in Education
Presented by: Tarek El Mourad
Advisor to the President on Projects
Federal National Council - UAE
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
March 6-7, 2017

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Us
Global Challenges
Our kids
Not born yet

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Global Megatrends Affecting our Future
 Science and
Technology
 Environment and
Resources
 Energy
 Health and Medical
Services
 Urbanization and
Globalization

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Science and Technology
• Cognitive Thinking
• Analyze social media
• Diagnose cancer
• Taste food
• Private tutoring
• Robotics
• Self Driving cars
• Drones
• Write articles
• Compose music play
• IOT
• Building management system
• Streets talking to cars
• Cars talking to each other
• Fridge talking to you
• Big data
• Customers
• Security
• Machine learning
• Location + sales (marketing)
Source: A Guide to the internet of things (intel)

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Source: State of the World Cities - Cities for All Bridging the Urban Divide, Hans Rosling
37
63
1950
5050
2000
37
63
2050
Urbanization and Globalization

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Health Services
Conventional
Health System
Smart Application
Wearable Devices
Social Media
Cognitive Computing
Doctors SystemMedical Staff
Source: Ey Global Megatrends 2016

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Energy Sector
 Renewable energy is the world’s
fastest-growing source of energy,
at an average rate of 2.6%/year,
 Nuclear energy use increases by
2.3%/year
 Natural gas use increases by
1.9%/year
 Liquids, Coal and Natural Gas
will stay as the main source of
Energy 60% - 78%
 Market share of Liquids, Coal and
Natural Gas will drop from 80% to
72%
Source: World Energy Outlook 2016 - International Energy Agency

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Climate Change – COP 21
• Temperatures are breaking records
around the world
• Arctic sea ice and glaciers are melting
fast
• Sea levels rose 19cm between 1900 and
2000
• The ocean is 26 percent more acidic than
before the Industrial Revolution
• Climate change will displace 250 million
people by 2050
• Global flooding could triple by 2030
• Earth could warm by 6 degrees this
century
$1,500,000,000,000

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Climate Change Data Manipulation

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Debate is Going on as we speak
 In 2015, weather stations data in Paraguay was adjusted to
transform a cooling trend into a warming trend
 Sep 2016, The amount of Arctic sea ice has become quite high -
largest in decade
 Jan 2017, Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from
website
 Feb 2017, John Bates whistle blower on NOAA data used in
COP21
• Feb 19, 2017US Congress launches an investigation into climate
data that duped world leaders over global warming
• The white house administration going through hard times
regarding Global Warming (Elenka Trump, Al Gore , Advisors,,,)

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Education Attainment and GDP are
closely related
 Relationship between GDP per capita and
PISA scores
 Correlation between PISA and English
Reading
 Correlation between GDP and English writing
 Correlation between GDP and Math

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Role in Education in Addressing Global
Challenges
• 40% of the workforce will be
independent
• Robotics will dominate the job
Market
• Consumers are getting
smarter (Ads blocker $x21.8
Billion)
• Trading personal information
(69% of 25-34 years)
• Annual Spending on data
analysis is increasing $49
Billion
Challenges
 Private Sector
 Education System
 Government
How to Address Global Challenges

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Timeframe to impact industries,
business models
Source: World Economic Forum - The Future of Jobs 2016

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Source: Future world skills 2020

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• The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 https://www.careerwise.mnscu.edu/news/fw/fw8908FutureWork.html
• State of the World Cities 20102 - Cities for All Bridging the Urban Divide (UN Repoort)
• These Will Be The Top Jobs In 2025 (And The Skills You’ll Need To Get Them) BY GWEN MORAN
• Hans Rosling online reference
• Institute of the future 2011
• World Economic Forum (WEF 2016 report)
• Firetail Class of 2030 Aug 2016
• Intuit Report 2010 – 2010
• Career 3.0 Future Skills, Future Works Tracey Willen Dogenti Appolo Research Institute
• The Future of Jobs and Skills Jan 2016