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CHALLENGES BEFORE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

            Some of the key challenges to sustainable development are given below:
               Instability and conflict between the nations.
               Planning and implementation of programmes to fit the local level.

               Non-profit organisations may lack skilled resources such as data scientists and NLP engines.
               Human bias may be embedded in AI models or datasets.
               Protection of sensitive data from being made public.




                     SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)


            In September 2015, 193 member countries of the General Assembly agreed to adopt the 2020
            Agenda for Sustainable Development that contains a set of 17 global goals to end poverty, protect
            the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for the people around the globe. These 17 goals are
            integrated in such a manner that action on one will have an impact on the other.


            SDG 01: No Poverty
            Eradicating extreme poverty and reducing poverty by at least by 50% is              NO
            the target to achieve. Worldwide, approximately 17.2 percent people are             POVERTY
            struggling to fulfill the most basic needs like health, education and access
            to clean water and sanitation. AI can help in improving the farming land,
            agriculture, quality of products, etc. AI can also help with aid distribution
            in poor and war-torn areas, or where natural disasters have caused heavy
            destruction.

                ZERO                SDG 02: Zero Hunger

                HUNGER              SDG 2 aims to end hunger issues by 2030 and ensure access to nutritious
                                    food  for all children. AI can help in reaching  out  the  goal  by  tracking
                                    food wastage, finding ways to grow yields, identifying diseases and pest
                                    outbreaks, analysing means to reduce population, etc.



            SDG 03: Good Health and Wellbeing

            This goal focuses on the well-being and good health for all. It aims to end          GOOD HEALTH
            epidemics  like  Cholera, Tuberculosis,  Malaria and other communicable              AND WELL-BEING
            diseases.  AI can help in achieving  this  goal  by  increasing  the  ability  of
            healthcare  professionals  to  analyse  huge data sets,  providing  better
            feedback  and finding  accurately  the  cause  of diseases  to  discover  the
            cure. Wearable healthcare technology also uses AI to serve the patients

            and healthcare workers.



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