Singapore Global Dialogue 2011 - Luncheon and World Leader Keynote Address

"Confluence of Civilisations: Prosperity and Peace of Societies"

His Excellency Dr A. P. J Abdul Kalam
Chancellor, Indian Institute of Space and Science Technology;
Former President of India

Technology has enabled globalisation, but divergent socio-economic and political interests at the international, national, and local levels have generated division and disparities, leading to global competition and conflict. Global interconnection has generated multi-pronged, cross-border challenges, such as problems arising from global warming and climate change, the interlocking crisis of markets in the global economy, the global spread of communicable disease, and local issues of inequity and cultural alienation that mutate into global terrorism.