techDetector Agriculture

With the goal to leverage the role of emerging technologies in paving the way to a more sustainable and egalitarian food system for us all, we have created scenarios that propose innovative insights towards the future of agriculture. You are now invited to navigate the interactive visualization tool to help trace a path towards a future of sustainable and engaged agriculture.

Agriculture Layer

Carbon Neutrality

Strategies to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 with the help of emerging technologies.

techDetector Cities

As an effort to disclose the necessary means to improve and support urban planning, monitoring, and development, we have created scenarios expected to genuinely incorporate sustainable practices into urban dynamics. These scenarios aim to propose a more preventive and responsive approach to city administrators. You are now invited to navigate the interactive visualization tool that helps trace a path towards the cities of the future.

Cities Layer

Dual-use techs

The Dual-Use project aims at pursuing answers to the many questions regarding the application of technologies in building peace agreements, strengthening global efforts, and diminishing conflicts, or, on a nebulous note, reinforcing warfares and increased inequality.

Dual-use Technologies

techDetector Education

To strengthen the dialogue between technology experts and actors involved in the education sector, we have created scenarios expected to offer mechanisms to improve learning, training, and the development of students, trainers, teachers, and institutional managers. You are now invited to navigate these scenarios and explore the interactive visualization tool that helps trace a path towards an educational system of the future.

Education Layer

techDetector E-Governance

To bridge more cooperation between governments and citizens, we have created scenarios that inspire innovative processes able to respond to the demands of digitization. These scenarios aim to improve administration processes such as taxing, law enforcement, surveillance, and the rule of law. You are now invited to navigate the interactive visualization tool that helps trace a path towards the governance of the future.

e-Governance Layer

Harvesting Data as a Crop

How emerging technologies can help include smallholder farmers in the digitization transformation? You are invited to explore editorial pieces that disclose  through different lenses the potential impact emerging technologies can produce on smallholder farmers.

3D future

The Future of Digital Transformation for Economic Inclusion in the MENA Region

MENA 4.0: Exploring Digital Transformation. 

techDetector Mobility

To better understand the mobility sector and its intricacies, we have created scenarios that have the potential to guide the mobility sector towards a smarter, more efficient future. You are now invited to navigate the interactive visualization tool to help trace a path towards a future of sustained responsible mobility.

Mobility Layer

Holding cocoa

Strategies to feed the growing global population while tackling the challenges of Climate Change.

The Future of Food

Hyperlinked Supply Chain

What happens to supply chains if we digitally replicate all physical objects within its entire ecosystem? What is more, what if we create a digital replica of the whole world? One that can trace and monitor global activity in real-time and simulate events before they even happen?  

Tracing Infrastructure

techDetector Water & Waste

With increasing water scarcity and water pollution garnering extensive global attention, there is a clear, tangible need to build support for water issues across a number of constituents. In order to incorporate strategic solutions to this pressing concern, we have created scenarios expected to promote innovative solutions in water quality and security. You are now invited to navigate the interactive visualization tool to help trace a path towards a future of sustainable water systems.

Water and Waste Layer

Case Study

3D Printed Architecture

Contemporary construction techniques are slow, labor-intensive, dangerous, expensive, and often limited to conventional building forms. 3D Printed Architecture can achieve low-carbon, zero-waste buildings with unlimited architectural flexibility and the highest level of precision, reducing the time and resources needed to create livable structures.

Future Scenario

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In this future scenario, we explore the opportunities and challenges of feeding a rising population while mitigating climate-related damages to deliver food security for future generations. We also investigate the role of technology, private companies, and the impact of changing food systems on emerging countries. 

4.0 AgriTech: A Secure Global Food Ecosystem

Deforestation fires

The present article examines the intricacies related to soy and cattle production and their association with deforestation. You are invited to discover the potential of emerging technologies in enhancing supply chain traceability, monitoring, and tracking, as well as helping agri-food actors fight against Climate Change. 

A Supply Chain Act to Prevent the Sky from Becoming a Sheet of Smoke 

Automated Home Farming

Is the world ready for mini-autonomous farms run by robots, inside our own homes? Space saving, water conserving and producing nutritious crops year round, with zero waste - there is a lot to love about microculture and automated home farming. But what does it really take to bring the outside inside?

Project Info

Avoid

Local movements for a worldwide digital mindset.

Avoid: Addressing Inequities in Transport & Commuting 

Bike Commuting Tax Incentive

A reward tax for sustainable commuting behaviors, coached by digital platforms that enable citizens to receive an incentive for using bicycles in the city.

Ideas for Change

Biobased Economy

The biobased economy proposes a model that integrates natural and renewable biological resources, biodiversity, and microbial materials to establish a more resourceful and circular economic use of these organisms.

Biodegradable Electronics

Flexible, organic, and biodegradable electronics made of cellulose and non-toxic materials could be a solution to reduce electronic waste.

Bio-electromechanical Devices

Hybrid devices using biological and electromechanical parts to emulate the behavior of living species. These devices can feature living organisms with implanted chips (thus emulating the premise of drones) or function as robotic organisms with biological material that prompts response.

Algae Biofuels

A green macro solution to meet energy needs, or a biotechnology pipe dream?   

Biofuels

Biosaline Agriculture

Biosaline agriculture is the process of adapting farming techniques and crops to soils with high salt content in order to gain higher yields at lower cost, with less water.     

Interview

Mesh in the blockchain

To bust some of the myths related to Blockchain applications and shed light on the opportunities and challenges behind its implementation, Envisioning had an exclusive interview with Jonathan Knegtel, a Blockchain expert from Blockdata.

Blockchain and Sustainability

Candidate Matching

A voting support system that provides a list of candidates and parties that best suit the voter's world views and necessities.

Circular Economy

Building the cornerstones for a circular mindset.

Circular Economy: How the Shift is Already In Motion

Circular Packaging Platform

A zero-waste business model that provides consumers with products inside durable, reusable packaging. The containers are then collected, sanitized, and reused through a link generated in a cloud-based platform where information is exchanged.

Climate Change, Environment, and Natural Resources Management

Climate Change, Environment, and Natural Resources Management: Pulling the Strings in Defense of The Earth

Closed-Loop Water Filtration

A circular loop water recycling system in household appliances and industrial processes that uses filters to remove impurities in order to reuse and recirculate the same water within the system.

Cloud-based R&D

A fully operational distributed robotic system designed to allow scientists to automatically develop, execute, and analyze laboratory experiments.

Cloud Education

Educational settings powered with smart devices that provide access to content and other education resources available at all times.

Vintage technological tools

Strategic efforts to address the challenges of implementing emerging technologies in educational environments.

Co-developing and Assessing the Future of Education

Community Solar Billing

An economic framework in which the electricity generated by solar panels within a specific community can create proportional monetary credit to each community member.

Crop Epigenetics

Can Epigenetics boost crop productivity more safely than GMO?

Crowd Farming

A platform that gives users ownership over the land and flora cultivated by a remote farmer. By creating a direct link between producer and consumer, overproduction and waste are avoided and farmers can better plan their harvest while improving their financial security.

Crowd Platform

Specialized, collaborative open platforms available for every citizen to check their city or country data and discuss relevant issues, as well as a source for governments and companies to produce urban solutions. These aggregators contain geospatial data and tools to support smart city planning as well as reliable and accurate legislation.

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This future scenario explores the role of data sovereignty in democratizing digital innovation in the agriculture sector, focusing on the primary actors of the value chain: smallholder farmers.

Data-as-a-Tool to Empower Smallholder Farmers

Data & Cyber Security

Tools to help increase data security and reliability.

Data & Cyber Security: Emerging Tools in Securing Networks

Decentralized Energy Grid

Decentralized energy distribution points located nearer to consumers, able to supply energy to local communities independently of large-scale energy plants.

De-extinction

Through cloning or selective breeding methods, re-creating a member of an extinct species could maintain the stability and variety of ecosystems.

Digital twin Concept

In this case study, we analyze the potential of emerging technologies involved in the development and design of Digital Twins for the tracking and monitoring of physical assets through virtual representations.

Digital Twins: The Link Towards Sustainability

Dynamic Redistributive tax

A real-time taxation system that dynamically modifies taxes according to citizens' financial conditions. It provides more transparency to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor.

Dynamic Redistributive Tax

Economy & Employment

Economy & Employment: Lifting the Veil on This Unseen Routine Task

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Edible Packaging

Coping with Future Water Scarcity

Global intelligence as an integrated solution.

Emerging Solutions for Coping With Future Water Scarcity

Entomophagy

Also known as the ingestion of insects by humans, this trend could help meet the growing demand for food, feed, and energy. Insects could be the next source of protein for humans and animals alike while helping deal with agricultural waste and products such as biofuel and fertilizers.

Equitable Dynamic Pricing

Aimed at balancing wage inequality and access to essential services, this framework dynamically sets prices of products and services depending on data such as gender, race, location, and origins.

Equitable Dynamic Pricing 

Equity Crowdfunding

A collective funding mechanism in which individuals invest in an early-stage business or product not listed on stock exchanges and, in return, receive a percentage of the company's common stock.

e-Residency

Unbound by offline territorial borders, this "virtual passport" is digitally assembled, enabling anyone, anywhere in the world to apply.

Fake berry

An interview with experts focused on developing alternatives to the current food system. 

Feeding The Global Population

List

Forest

A list of emerging technologies to help achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and prevent the severe consequences of Climate Change.

Five Technologies Leading the Way to a Carbon Neutral Future

Supply chain overview

A list of emerging technologies expected to impact supply chain infrastructure by 2030.

Five Techs To Reshape Supply Chain 

From Hype to Hyperlinked: The Supply Chain of Tomorrow

This future scenario explores the role of technology in providing mechanisms for transparency, traceability, and accountability to support sustainable economic development. We consider the hyperlinked supply chain: a symbiotic articulation of digital technologies and tools across a ubiquitous, automated, and predominantly circular supply chain.

Sci-Fi Chronicle

From Limu, with Love

This Sci-fi Chronicle aims to illustrate the relationship that consumers of the future have with the products they choose and the producers involved: how consumers access the information behind a brand, the kind of available data, and how it might influence consumer behavior. 

From Limu, with Love

Fueling the Future of Energy

In this future scenario, we explore the opportunities and challenges posed by electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, and other energy alternatives to fossil fuels, such as algae biofuel. We also investigate the ambivalence of nuclear energy and emerging energy harvesting methods that use resources from outer space, such as asteroid mining. 

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Fusion Power Plant

Gaia

A sci-fi chronicle that takes a step into utopian and dystopian futures, where societies of tomorrow collide between interests and objectives, and where emerging technologies appear as a solid effort to create a global governance of long-term peace.

Gaia's Translator

Gamification

The process of taking a pre-existing digital entity, such as a website, an enterprise application, or even an online community, integrates game mechanics into the system's fabric to motivate participation, engage people, and enhance loyalty.

Gender Mainstreaming

By taking into consideration the experiences and general usage of the city across different gender identities, Gender Mainstreaming is an approach to urban life and transportation planning that ensures the inclusion of every citizen, especially in feeling welcome and entitled to utilize public spaces.

Women and tech

A learning journey in the digitalization trends.

Gender & Tech

Satellite view of Earth's surface 

The integration of global-to-local approaches to improve land-use management and natural resources conservation

Global Land-Use Optimization

Immigrants with baggage lined up at teller's windows marked money exchange, 1910

A case study that analyzes the impact of dual-use technologies on regulations and their subsequent relation to the development of migration policies.

Global Rule of Law and Dual-use Technologies

Govcloud

A digital marketplace that allows public sector agencies to store, purchase, and search for services stored in cloud computing. This business model would make it possible to share resources as a public utility while maintaining security, saving money, and improving the efficiency of government entities.

GovCloud

Group Micro-Lending

Credit modality used by microfinance institutions and individuals that encompass joint liability to build creditworthy social networks. This model also promotes proper education and training for customers with little experience to improve their financial performance.

Grow

Technologies linking producers, processors, and consumers.

Grow: Cultivating New Trends in Food Production

Farming modeling

Placing smallholder farmers at eye-level with big companies.

Human-centered Capital

Tools enabling better access to finance frameworks.

Human-centered Capital : Accountability, Accessibility, and Transparency in Financial Frameworks

Improve

The urgency of sustainable energy extraction.

Improve: The Urgency of Decarbonizing Transport

Inclusionary Zoning

Municipal policies that reserve a share of zones for low-income households in new developments. Mandatory or voluntary depending on the place, this approach also promises great achievements in terms of efficiency and the mitigation of urban issues such as homelessness and marginalized neighborhoods.

Industrial 3D Printing

On an industrial level, 3D printing is already revolutionizing business models by allowing manufacturers to prototype in shorter times and adopt highly customized on-demand approaches to their production strategy. As the technology evolves, more techniques are expected to join the manufacturing industry for larger scale production.

Reducing Our Future Water and Waste Footprint

Intersectional change for industrial ecology.

Industrial Ecology: On Reducing Our Future Water and Waste Footprint

Integrated Public Administration

Tools and protocols strengthening administrative processes, allowing enhanced accountability.

Integrated Public Administration: The Case for Automating Administration

Integrated Urban Network

Integrated Urban Network: Initiatives to Foster Transparency, Collectivity and Collaboration

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A case study of an economic trend based on customers' individualized demands instead of those set by the market.