Frontier Technologies

✅Frontier technologies are defined as potentially disruptive technologies that can address large-scale challenges or opportunities.

✅They include artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things, big data, blockchain, 5G, 3D printing, robotics, drones, gene editing, nanotechnology and solar photovoltaic.

✅United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

✅The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 to promote development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy.

✅UNCTAD is a permanent intergovernmental body headquartered at Geneva in Switzerland.

✅Some of the reports published by it are:

✅Trade and Development Report

✅World Investment Report

✅The Least Developed Countries Report

✅Information and Economy Report

✅Technology and Innovation Report

✅Commodities and Development Report