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Lec 2: Project topics

  • Sustainability

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  • Societal shifts

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  • Security

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  • New tech

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • Adopted by the United Nations in 2015
  • A blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and planet
      • Call for a global partnership.
      • A comprehensive action plans
      • 17 goals concerning governance, society, environment, etc.

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Sustainability

  • Can we pass on the environment to

the future generations?

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  • Balance between growth and environment
      • Human activities and limited resources
      • Consumption and replacement

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    • Economic development
      • Resource
      • Environment
    • Tech advancement
      • Larger scale
      • Global impact

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  • Concerns
    • Resource depletion
    • Environmental damage/climate change
    • Income inequality, etc.

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    • Exponential effects

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    • SDGs

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Societal shifts

  • Political development
  • Social movements
  • Globalization
    • Traditional values: community, family, education
    • New values/ideas

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  • Democracy, diversity
  • Gender/racial equality

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SDGs: 4, 5, 10

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  • Concerns:
    • Discrimination
      • Minorities, low-income population
    • Backlash
      • Traditional community, anti-immigration, etc.
    • Social division
      • Political polarization
    • Extremism
      • Populism, xenophobia, violence

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Security

  • Instability and changes in the existing order
    • US hegemony
      • Alliances among “like-minded countries”
      • NATO, US-JPN, ANZUS, US-SK, etc.
    • International norms
      • Rule of law, diplomacy, cooperation
      • Human rights, sovereignty, territorial integrity
    • Recent power shift
      • Rise of the BRICS countries
      • “Rogue states”
        • “attempts to change the status quo by force”

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  • Human security (United Nations)
    • Security at individual level
      • Violence, disasters,
      • Poverty, hunger, epidemics

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  • Concerns:
    • Wars, conflicts
      • Casualties, economic damages
      • HR violation
    • Back to the old order
      • Rule of power, arms race
      • Crisis escalation

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New tech

  • Robotics
    • Robots and drones in production sites
    • Mechanization

  • AI
    • Generational Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)
    • Big data, deep learning
    • Generate images, texts, etc.

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  • Benefits：
    • Higher productivity, efficiency
    • Saves costs, time
    • Solves labor shortage

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  • Concerns:
    • Replacement of labor 🡪 unemployment
      • Middle class jobs: manufacturing, decent salary, job security
      • Innovative jobs or simple jobs 🡪 income gap

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    • Authenticity, copy rights
    • Fake information

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    • Accountability
      • In case of accidents, troubles

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Research design: Root Cause Analysis (RCA)�

  1. Data collection

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  • Current situation
    • Problems and challenges

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  • Root causes

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  • Goal-setting

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  • Solution proposal

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Final presentation

  • Presentation (15-20 min)

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  • Root Cause Analysis
    • Current situation
    • Root causes
    • Goal-setting
    • Solution proposal

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