Empowering Global Citizens

23. National catastrophes (cyclone)

24. National catastrophes (earthquakes)
25. National catastrophes (island flooding)
26. National catastrophes (coastal flooding)
27. Air pollution

28. Biodiversity loss

SOCIETAL RISKS

29. Pandemics

30. Infectious diseases
31. Chronic diseases
32. Liability Regimes
33. Migration

TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS

34. Critical informanon—infrastructure breakdown
35. Nanoparticle toxicity
36. Data fraud/loss

Students examine in a whole—group discussion how each of these global risks
relates to an emerging technology and the extent to which the risk can be

managed and how.

Students review Design for Change (https://www.tes.com/worldslargestlesson/
taking-action/) and Design Thinking and discuss the following TED Talk by
Tim Brow: httpS://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_urges_designers_to_think__
big?language=en.

Then, individually or in small groups, students select one of the Sustainable
Development Goals and analyze how the problem area that the goal ad—
dresses (e.g., poverty, hunger, health, education, etc.) has been addressed
in the past by technological developments. The students then discuss how

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