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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 global objectives aimed at ending poverty,
protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all by 2030. They address key issues such as
climate change, inequality, and peace.
CHALLENGES BEFORE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Some of the key challenges to sustainable development are given below:
There is instability and conflict between the nations.
There is lack of proper 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.
Sensitive data needs to be protected 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
the target to achieve. Worldwide, approximately 17.2 percent of people are
struggling to fulfil 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.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
This goal aims to end hunger issues by 2030 and ensure access to nutritious
food for all children. AI can help in reaching out to the goal by tracking food
waste, finding ways to grow yields, identifying diseases and pest outbreaks,
analysing means to reduce population, etc.
SDG 03: Good Health and Well-Being
This goal focusses on the well-being and good health for all. It aims to end
epidemics like Cholera, Tuberculosis, Malaria and other communicable
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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