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"With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial use of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics, trends across Africa speak to the continent's potential for growth and sustainable development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this innovative and timely study, Landry Signé examines the meaning, drivers, and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Africa. Drawing upon comparative, continent-wide analysis, Signé powerfully challenges our understandings of Africa's transformation, and sheds light on the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to change and shape the Global South. By defining and investigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Signé develops a valuable framework for further study and suggests strategies that Africans and their global partners can use to capitalize upon this rapidly evolving technological landscape"--

The manuscript incorporates contemporary knowledge of the Industrial Complexes - The Fourth Industrial Revolution, followed by discussion, extracts, quotes and citations by various authors, as well as official government publications as the academic comparative references. Seeing the lack of literature in the field of Architecture, especially in Albanian language, I was inspired by the topic, research, and writing this monograph, which elaborates The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Architectural Design Process.

This article argues that there is no such phenomenon as a Fourth Industrial Revolution. It derives a framework for the analysis of any industrial revolution from a careful historical account of the archetypal First Industrial Revolution. The suggested criteria for any socioeconomic transformation to be considered an industrial revolution are that it must encompass a technological revolution; a transformation of the labour process; a fundamental change in workplace relations; new forms of community and social relationships; and global socio-economic transformations. These transformations indeed characterise the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions. The aggregate of technical innovations in the latter is carefully examined, because this is a crucial part of determining whether we can meaningfully claim that a Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway. The article demonstrates that we cannot.

Courses and training in public decision-making have often disappeared from Public Administration curricula. This paper argues that this is unfortunate as skills therein are severely needed to steer developments towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Whereas some see this as a macro development that befalls countries, this paper argues otherwise. Decision-making by individual and corporate actors is judged to be central in the 4IR. This makes the steering thereof possible and desirable. Without being trained in the needed skills in decision-making our graduates will not be prepared to do so and will not become the responsible public officials able to direct 4IR developments.

Bangladesh has achieved significant progress on indicators related to Sustainable Development Goal 3, which calls on countries to guarantee that everyone enjoys good health and well-being. Nonetheless, Bangladesh's healthcare system remains fundamentally vulnerable due to years of neglect. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expected to disrupt the existing healthcare system by increasing the speed of services, improving the ability to manage illnesses, and changing the role of patients as well as the relationship between patients and healthcare service providers. Leveraging the 4IR to make progress in healthcare in Bangladesh would require significant investments in technology from the government, private sector, and international development partners. This study utilises nationally representative microdata of 1,600 health facilities and 5,400 healthcare service providers from the Bangladesh Health Facility Survey 2017 to estimate the impact of the use of technology and information services on health outcomes. The results from a propensity score matching model show that the number of live discharges per month was higher in health facilities where a computer, or an internet connection, or a dedicated statistician was available, compared to where these facilities were unavailable. In light of these findings, a blockchain-based electronic health records system for Bangladesh was proposed. Such a system would boost machine learning-driven preventive healthcare, and would serve as the basis for establishing home hospitals where patients would be able to remain at home and still obtain medical services from hospitals in their vicinity through a combination of location-based mobile applications and video conferencing.

My poster explores the role of technology in American society and ways it is affecting and will likely continue to affect US democracy. Policies, laws, and awareness of security threats and vulnerabilities have not developed at the same rate that society has adopted technology. This is causing major issues in court cases, controversial debates over the right to privacy, and providing a large opportunity for hackers to exploit our unsecured technology and utilize it for criminal purposes. Since the issue of cybercrime will have a great effect on domestic economics and legal regulations, politicians will be forced to address these issues and expedite the development of regulations and policies. Politicians are struggling to decide on some of these controversial privacy issues because they do not fully understand the role of technology in our lives, and my goal is to raise awareness about gaps in regulation and data privacy.