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Education
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Charcoal paying for education

A poor female charcoal-vendor in Uganda managed to send her children to university

Social media tax
Edward Ronald Sekyewa

Negative impacts

Social media use in Uganda is now being taxed, affecting businesses in a negative way

Agriculture
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Digital farming

How digitisation can benefit commercial farms in India

Information technology
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Digital forces and ethical challenges

India must prepare for dramatic digital change

Education
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Cultural change

Future jobs will require high levels of specialisation

Manufacturing
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Automation in a low-wage country

Whether the robots replace workers depends on complicated cost calculations in Mexico

Digitalisation
Patrick Ruether
Vikrom Mathur
Urvashi Aneja

#AIforAll

Digitalisation offers opportunities, but also goes along with huge risks in India

Digitalisation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Four important tech trends

The meanings of artificial intelligence, automation, big data and blockchain

Technology
Benjamin Kumpf
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Generating broad-based wealth

UNDP innovation expert assesses pros and cons of new digital technology

Industry 4.0
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

The digitalisation of world trade

Digitally-enabled trade on the agenda of G20 summit in Buenos Aires in late November

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Junk food in school
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development
Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders