The document discusses several topics related to knowledge, education, and human development challenges across the world. It notes that populations are growing rapidly, resources are becoming more constrained, and societies must work to address issues like poverty, health, education, and sustainability. The document calls on universities to help promote seven strategic partnerships for human development: 1) developing a more sustainable relationship with resources in developed and developing countries, 2) fostering international cooperation, 3) understanding the relationship between population and resources, 4) linking development with competence and hard work, 5) prioritizing knowledge and partnerships for safety, 6) challenging material expectations, and 7) thinking of ourselves as "earthlings" working together for the future.

1. UNIVERSITIES and
HUMANKIND
Our
Responsibility

2. J Bruner
Cultures Are
Knowledge
Amplification
Systems

3. Adam and Eve?

4. Our Evolutionary triumph?

5. Africa:
The Cradle of Human Knowledge

6. Across Mediterranean To China
Cultures Deeply Challenged:
New Knowledge the Result

7. Ways of Knowing
• Philosophy (the abstract mind)
• Rationalism/Scepticism (not accepting realities that
are not immediately evident)
• Religion (faith in divine revelation and social tradition)
• Mysticism (experiences based on spiritual techniques)
• Esotericism (intuitive speculation on cosmological
world-views)
• Occultism (using psycho-physical techniques to
access hidden realities)
• Gnosis (innate wisdom and understanding)
• Science (experimental approach to the physical
universe)

8. The Great Library In Alexandria

9. The Library In Timbuktu

10. Political Map
Scramble For Africa

11. Humankind’s Great Intellectual
Leaps
• Classical antiquity
• Renaissance
• Agricultural revolution
• Scientific revolution
• Industrial revolution
• Digital revolution ******

12. Some Consequences for
Africa

13. The Continents: To Scale
• The land area of each territory is shown here.
• The total land area of these 200 territories is 13,056 million hectares. Divided up
equally that would be 2.1 hectares for each person. A hectare is 100 metres by 100
metres.
• However, population is not evenly spread: Australia's land area is 21 times bigger
than Japan's, but Japan's population is more than six times bigger than Australia's.

14. Tertiary Education
• The highest percentage of the student aged population
enrolled is in Finland. Finland is 3.6 times the world
average, with 140 times the chance of a tertiary
education than in Mozambique.

15. Science Research
• Scientific papers cover physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical
research, engineering, technology, and earth and space sciences.
• The number of scientific papers published by researchers in the United States was more than
three times as many as were published by the second highest-publishing population, Japan.
• There is more scientific research, or publication of results, in richer territories. This locational bias
is such that roughly three times more scientific papers per person living there are published in
Western Europe, North America, and Japan, than in any other region.

16. New Patents
• In 2002, 312 thousand patents were granted around the world. More than a third of these were
granted in Japan. Just under a third were granted in the United States.
• A patent is supposed to protect the ideas and inventions that people have. Patenting something
will then allow the owner of the patent to charge others for the usage of an idea or invention. The
aim is to reward the creator for their hard work or intelligence. But patents can prevent people
from using good ideas because they cannot afford to do so.
• A quarter of all territories had no new patents in 2002, so will not profit from these in future years
as others will.

17. Un Poverty Index
██ High income
██ Upper-middle income
██ Lower-middle income
██ Low income

18. One of Humankind’s Hopes

19. HOUSE

20. WORK

21. Family and Safety

23. Good Health

24. Potable Water

25. Transport

26. Renewable Energy

27. Street Children Begging

28. Child and Vulture

29. Child and Starvation

30. Environmental Challenges

31. Dennis Meadows:
POPULATION

32. 2030: A Watershed
“By 2030 the demand for resources will create a
crisis with dire consequences
Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by
2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the
population tops 8.3 billion. Climate change will
exacerbate matters in unpredictable ways”.
Beddington.
“Change is now ubiquitous, non-linear and
persistent Hargreaves

33. 1994: South Africa’s Triple
Challenge
• Build a democratic state
• Integrate itself into the competitive arena of
international production and finance.
• Reconstruct domestic social and economic
relations to eradicate and redress the
inequitable patterns of ownership, wealth and
social and economic practices that were shaped
by segregation and apartheid
• All of this while the entire world is changing
dramatically

34. Dalin’s 10 Revolutions
• 1. The knowledge and information revolution
• 2. The population explosion
• 3. Globalisation
• 4. The economic revolution
• 5. The technological revolution
• 6. The ecological revolution
• 7. The social/cultural revolution
• 8. The aesthetic revolution
• 9. The political revolution
• 10. The values revolution. Per Dalin

35. Seven Strategic Partnerships with
Our Species
There are at least seven human development challenges
that universities must champion. Governments can’t or
won’t. They are:
1. To move humans in developed countries to understand
that they have lived beyond their means and they must
prepare themselves for a more humble future.
2. To move humans in developing countries to understand
that they cannot use the developed nations as points of
reference for their material expectations
3. To move all humans to understand that we must develop
a wise relationship with our natural environment

36. Seven Strategic Partnerships with
Our Species
4. To move all humans to think of ourselves as
earthlings who must work together to secure our
future. This implies an internationalist
perspective.
5. To move all humans to understand that there is a
direct relationship between population growth
and the availability of resources
6. To move all humans to understand that there is a
direct relationship between ownership,
competence and hard work on the one hand and
development on the other
7. To move all humans to understand that safety
lies in knowledge and partnerships

37. 7 LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The I in relation to the We
Service Stage 3: External Cohesion
7
Serving humanity and the planet
Making a Difference 6 Collaborating with partners
Stage 2: Internal Cohesion
Internal Cohesion 5
Finding meaning in existence
Balancing self-interest
Transformation 4 with group interest
Self-Esteem Stage 1: Personal Mastery
3
Development of a healthy
Relationship 2 positive ego
Need to overcome
Survival 1 deficiency perspective
Barrett

38. uwc
A METAPHOR AND
MODEL FOR AFRICA

40. “What” do we want to say?