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17.06.2025
A strategic lever for global growth and improved living standards
Introduction
Technological investments no longer depend merely on strategic direction, but they depend on the economic imperative aimed at accelerated development of the Southern and Eastern countries. In the face of significant economic inequal- ity, persistent health challenges, food insecurity, and rapid urbanization emerging technologies constitute the decisive factor in inclusive growth promotion and strengthening of sustainable social and economic ecosystems. Within the frame- work of this dynamics targeted allocation of funds to the most promising technology sectors is required to optimize the impact of investments and ensure sustainable transformation with significant added value.
Based on the studied areas, three strategic sectors will be defined, in which technologies may play the key role: optimization of the public healthcare system, food security, and smart city development.
If implemented correctly, these initiatives can catalyze sustainable and inclu- sive growth.
Plan of the presentation
Introduction
1.Optimization of the public healthcare system through cutting-edge technologies
•Tasks of the public healthсare sector in developing countries
•Technological innovations in the service of public healthcare
•Economic and social impact
•Certain cases and examples of success
2.New technologies to ensure food security
•Issues of food security
•Technological solutions
•Economic and social consequences
•Practical example
3.Use of technologies for smart city development
•Tasks of the fast-growing urban areas
•Key technologies of smart cities
•Economic and social results
•Successful project example (smart city of Kigali, Rwanda)
Conclusion
In the world where innovations constantly redefine the economic and social dynamics, Southern and Eastern countries find themselves at a strategic turn- ing point. Target implementation of cutting-edge technologies provides unique opportunity to fill in the main structural gaps in terms of access to medical ser- vices, food security, and urban management. By accumulating such achievements, these countries may not only accelerate their own development, but also become stable members of the global competition. It was decided to discuss three key areas deserving special attention in this presentation: optimization of the public health- care system, food security, and transformation of cities into smart and intercon- nected spaces.
1. Optimization of the public healthcare system through cutting-edge technologies
Among multiple challenges faced by Southern and Eastern countries, pub- lic healthcare sector takes the center stage in view of the persistent inequality and significant lack of adapted infrastructures. Thus, the contribution of cut- ting-edge technologies is important to improve availability and efficiency of medical services.
Tasks of the public healthcare sector
Southern and Eastern countries are facing significant gaps in terms of access to medical services: insufficient medical infrastructure, lack of qualified personnel, high cost of medical services, and geographic inequality. These challenges signifi- cantly slow down development of human potential and economic performance.
Technological innovations in the service of public healthcare
Rapid development of telemedicine, artificial intelligence (AI) used in diagnostics, digitalization of medical records, and biotechnology are revolutionizing the access to medical services. For example, AI based applications enable increasingly accurate remote diagnosis of diseases, which reduces the need for physical consultations. Such devices with Internet access to control patients as smart watches and biometric sensors enable real time control of health parame- ters (heart rate, glucose level, blood pressure), which facilitates early detection of diseases and preventive control of the patients. Such AI aided surgical robots as Da Vinci enable surgical interventions with increased precision, which reduces post-operational risks and facilitates access to high quality medical services even in the regions, where experts are lacking.
Economic and social impact
Integration of cutting-edge technologies in the medical sector reduces expenses on public healthcare, as well as increases life expectancy and productiveness. According to report of the World Bank, switch of medical services to the digital format could decrease expenses on public healthcare in some African coun- tries by 20%. At the same time, development of technological solutions for public healthcare creates new commercial opportunities, promotes investments in digital infrastructure, and supports emergence of specialized startups.
Practical example: Rwanda and its medical drones
Rwanda uses drones for fast delivery of blood bags and medicines to remote regions. This initiative introduced by Zipline significantly decreased the level of mortality associated with complications in case of bleeding.
2. New technologies to ensure food security
Provision of sufficient and stable nutrition for the world’s population, the number of which is continuously increasing, is the main strategic task, especially in the most vulnerable regions.
Issues of food security
Demographic growth, impacts of climate change, and post-harvest crop losses are the main challenges for food security. In many regions performance of agriculture remains low because of obsolete traditional methods and lack of access to innovations.
Technological solutions
Precision farming, blockchain based product tracking, vertical farms, and artificial intelligence used for agricultural forecasting are the necessary solutions. For
example, smart sensors allow optimization of irrigation and fertilization, which improves performance and ensures protection of natural resources.
Economic and social consequences
Implementation of new technologies in agriculture promotes better resource management, reduces losses, and increases farmers’ incomes. Blockchain increases transparency of supply channels, which reduces the possibility of fraud and ensures higher remuneration for the manufacturers. Access to technologies expands the coverage area of clusters and makes trade more profitable.
Practical example: Agricultural drones in West Africa
Such enterprises as Aerobotics use drones to control crops and detect dis- eases prior to their dissemination, which significantly improves yield.
3. Use of technologies for smart city development
Tasks of accelerated urbanization
Infrastructure of Southern and Eastern cities is hardly coping with rapid pace of urbanization. Challenges include overload of the roads, contamination, poor waste management, and insufficient utilities.
Key technologies of smart cities
Internet of things (IoT), smart resource management, smart transport systems, and digital management are the main solutions for the challenges. For example, IoT enables optimization of lighting in public areas and energy consumption, thus reducing expenses and promoting adaptation of the new cities.
Economic and social results
Smart cities improve the quality of life, reduce pollution, and facilitate access to the main services. Besides, they attract foreign investments and promote growth of innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Successful project example: Kigali, a pioneer city
Kigali (Rwanda) has implemented several smart city projects, including smart surveillance systems and electric buses, and became an example for other African cities.
Conclusion
Technological investments are an important issue in solving of the structural challenges of the Southern and Eastern countries. Modernization of public healthcare sector, agricultural innovations, and smart urbanization are the three strategic areas that shall be prioritized in order to ensure inclusive and sustain- able growth.
Expected accompanying effects include improved living conditions, stimulation of the economy, and improved resilience in the face of future crises. However, these achievements require strong political commitment, continuous investments,
example, smart sensors allow optimization of irrigation and fertilization, which improves performance and ensures protection of natural resources.
Economic and social consequences
Implementation of new technologies in agriculture promotes better resource management, reduces losses, and increases farmers’ incomes. Blockchain increases transparency of supply channels, which reduces the possibility of fraud and ensures higher remuneration for the manufacturers. Access to technologies expands the coverage area of clusters and makes trade more profitable.
Practical example: Agricultural drones in West Africa
Such enterprises as Aerobotics use drones to control crops and detect dis- eases prior to their dissemination, which significantly improves yield.
3. Use of technologies for smart city development
Tasks of accelerated urbanization
Infrastructure of Southern and Eastern cities is hardly coping with rapid pace of urbanization. Challenges include overload of the roads, contamination, poor waste management, and insufficient utilities.
Key technologies of smart cities
Internet of things (IoT), smart resource management, smart transport systems, and digital management are the main solutions for the challenges. For example, IoT enables optimization of lighting in public areas and energy consumption, thus reducing expenses and promoting adaptation of the new cities.
Economic and social results
Smart cities improve the quality of life, reduce pollution, and facilitate access to the main services. Besides, they attract foreign investments and promote growth of innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Successful project example: Kigali, a pioneer city
Kigali (Rwanda) has implemented several smart city projects, including smart surveillance systems and electric buses, and became an example for other African cities.
Conclusion
Technological investments are an important issue in solving of the structural challenges of the Southern and Eastern countries. Modernization of public healthcare sector, agricultural innovations, and smart urbanization are the three strategic areas that shall be prioritized in order to ensure inclusive and sustain- able growth.
Expected accompanying effects include improved living conditions, stimulation of the economy, and improved resilience in the face of future crises. However, these achievements require strong political commitment, continuous investments, and dynamic partnership between the public and private sectors to ensure the maximum effect. Strategic integration of such technologies will help these coun- tries to start profound long-term transformation and make technologies the driver of world prosperity.
Technological investments no longer depend merely on strategic direction, but they depend on the economic imperative aimed at accelerated development of the Southern and Eastern countries. In the face of significant economic inequal- ity, persistent health challenges, food insecurity, and rapid urbanization emerging technologies constitute the decisive factor in inclusive growth promotion and strengthening of sustainable social and economic ecosystems. Within the frame- work of this dynamics targeted allocation of funds to the most promising technology sectors is required to optimize the impact of investments and ensure sustainable transformation with significant added value.
Based on the studied areas, three strategic sectors will be defined, in which technologies may play the key role: optimization of the public healthcare system, food security, and smart city development.
If implemented correctly, these initiatives can catalyze sustainable and inclu- sive growth.
Plan of the presentation
Introduction
1.Optimization of the public healthcare system through cutting-edge technologies
•Tasks of the public healthсare sector in developing countries
•Technological innovations in the service of public healthcare
•Economic and social impact
•Certain cases and examples of success
2.New technologies to ensure food security
•Issues of food security
•Technological solutions
•Economic and social consequences
•Practical example
3.Use of technologies for smart city development
•Tasks of the fast-growing urban areas
•Key technologies of smart cities
•Economic and social results
•Successful project example (smart city of Kigali, Rwanda)
Conclusion
In the world where innovations constantly redefine the economic and social dynamics, Southern and Eastern countries find themselves at a strategic turn- ing point. Target implementation of cutting-edge technologies provides unique opportunity to fill in the main structural gaps in terms of access to medical ser- vices, food security, and urban management. By accumulating such achievements, these countries may not only accelerate their own development, but also become stable members of the global competition. It was decided to discuss three key areas deserving special attention in this presentation: optimization of the public health- care system, food security, and transformation of cities into smart and intercon- nected spaces.
1. Optimization of the public healthcare system through cutting-edge technologies
Among multiple challenges faced by Southern and Eastern countries, pub- lic healthcare sector takes the center stage in view of the persistent inequality and significant lack of adapted infrastructures. Thus, the contribution of cut- ting-edge technologies is important to improve availability and efficiency of medical services.
Tasks of the public healthcare sector
Southern and Eastern countries are facing significant gaps in terms of access to medical services: insufficient medical infrastructure, lack of qualified personnel, high cost of medical services, and geographic inequality. These challenges signifi- cantly slow down development of human potential and economic performance.
Technological innovations in the service of public healthcare
Rapid development of telemedicine, artificial intelligence (AI) used in diagnostics, digitalization of medical records, and biotechnology are revolutionizing the access to medical services. For example, AI based applications enable increasingly accurate remote diagnosis of diseases, which reduces the need for physical consultations. Such devices with Internet access to control patients as smart watches and biometric sensors enable real time control of health parame- ters (heart rate, glucose level, blood pressure), which facilitates early detection of diseases and preventive control of the patients. Such AI aided surgical robots as Da Vinci enable surgical interventions with increased precision, which reduces post-operational risks and facilitates access to high quality medical services even in the regions, where experts are lacking.
Economic and social impact
Integration of cutting-edge technologies in the medical sector reduces expenses on public healthcare, as well as increases life expectancy and productiveness. According to report of the World Bank, switch of medical services to the digital format could decrease expenses on public healthcare in some African coun- tries by 20%. At the same time, development of technological solutions for public healthcare creates new commercial opportunities, promotes investments in digital infrastructure, and supports emergence of specialized startups.
Practical example: Rwanda and its medical drones
Rwanda uses drones for fast delivery of blood bags and medicines to remote regions. This initiative introduced by Zipline significantly decreased the level of mortality associated with complications in case of bleeding.
2. New technologies to ensure food security
Provision of sufficient and stable nutrition for the world’s population, the number of which is continuously increasing, is the main strategic task, especially in the most vulnerable regions.
Issues of food security
Demographic growth, impacts of climate change, and post-harvest crop losses are the main challenges for food security. In many regions performance of agriculture remains low because of obsolete traditional methods and lack of access to innovations.
Technological solutions
Precision farming, blockchain based product tracking, vertical farms, and artificial intelligence used for agricultural forecasting are the necessary solutions. For
example, smart sensors allow optimization of irrigation and fertilization, which improves performance and ensures protection of natural resources.
Economic and social consequences
Implementation of new technologies in agriculture promotes better resource management, reduces losses, and increases farmers’ incomes. Blockchain increases transparency of supply channels, which reduces the possibility of fraud and ensures higher remuneration for the manufacturers. Access to technologies expands the coverage area of clusters and makes trade more profitable.
Practical example: Agricultural drones in West Africa
Such enterprises as Aerobotics use drones to control crops and detect dis- eases prior to their dissemination, which significantly improves yield.
3. Use of technologies for smart city development
Tasks of accelerated urbanization
Infrastructure of Southern and Eastern cities is hardly coping with rapid pace of urbanization. Challenges include overload of the roads, contamination, poor waste management, and insufficient utilities.
Key technologies of smart cities
Internet of things (IoT), smart resource management, smart transport systems, and digital management are the main solutions for the challenges. For example, IoT enables optimization of lighting in public areas and energy consumption, thus reducing expenses and promoting adaptation of the new cities.
Economic and social results
Smart cities improve the quality of life, reduce pollution, and facilitate access to the main services. Besides, they attract foreign investments and promote growth of innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Successful project example: Kigali, a pioneer city
Kigali (Rwanda) has implemented several smart city projects, including smart surveillance systems and electric buses, and became an example for other African cities.
Conclusion
Technological investments are an important issue in solving of the structural challenges of the Southern and Eastern countries. Modernization of public healthcare sector, agricultural innovations, and smart urbanization are the three strategic areas that shall be prioritized in order to ensure inclusive and sustain- able growth.
Expected accompanying effects include improved living conditions, stimulation of the economy, and improved resilience in the face of future crises. However, these achievements require strong political commitment, continuous investments,
example, smart sensors allow optimization of irrigation and fertilization, which improves performance and ensures protection of natural resources.
Economic and social consequences
Implementation of new technologies in agriculture promotes better resource management, reduces losses, and increases farmers’ incomes. Blockchain increases transparency of supply channels, which reduces the possibility of fraud and ensures higher remuneration for the manufacturers. Access to technologies expands the coverage area of clusters and makes trade more profitable.
Practical example: Agricultural drones in West Africa
Such enterprises as Aerobotics use drones to control crops and detect dis- eases prior to their dissemination, which significantly improves yield.
3. Use of technologies for smart city development
Tasks of accelerated urbanization
Infrastructure of Southern and Eastern cities is hardly coping with rapid pace of urbanization. Challenges include overload of the roads, contamination, poor waste management, and insufficient utilities.
Key technologies of smart cities
Internet of things (IoT), smart resource management, smart transport systems, and digital management are the main solutions for the challenges. For example, IoT enables optimization of lighting in public areas and energy consumption, thus reducing expenses and promoting adaptation of the new cities.
Economic and social results
Smart cities improve the quality of life, reduce pollution, and facilitate access to the main services. Besides, they attract foreign investments and promote growth of innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Successful project example: Kigali, a pioneer city
Kigali (Rwanda) has implemented several smart city projects, including smart surveillance systems and electric buses, and became an example for other African cities.
Conclusion
Technological investments are an important issue in solving of the structural challenges of the Southern and Eastern countries. Modernization of public healthcare sector, agricultural innovations, and smart urbanization are the three strategic areas that shall be prioritized in order to ensure inclusive and sustain- able growth.
Expected accompanying effects include improved living conditions, stimulation of the economy, and improved resilience in the face of future crises. However, these achievements require strong political commitment, continuous investments, and dynamic partnership between the public and private sectors to ensure the maximum effect. Strategic integration of such technologies will help these coun- tries to start profound long-term transformation and make technologies the driver of world prosperity.
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