SDG-1

SDG-1 No Poverty

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SDG-1

Targets of this Goal

By 2030, it is necessary to achieve the following targets:

Eliminate extreme poverty for the entire world population.
Reduce by half the proportion of people living in poverty.
Guarantee the equal rights to economic resources for everyone.
Foster resilience of the poor and those in most vulnerable situations.

We can currently advance towards the attainment of this goal:

How does technology contribute to this SDG? See what we propose and tell us what you think

Lessons Learnt

We have analyzed the literature and extracted the following ideas on how technologies are favouring this SDG.
See also what we propose and tell us what you think

L.1

The important roles of government and international decisions to eliminate development inequalities and halt the spiral of poverty, suggest the need for large-scale decision support systems guided by AI tools and blockchain technologies to ensure fair governance processes through highly participatory and traceable decisions.

L.2

The AI along with diverse data collection processes are being employed to measure poverty levels and predict poverty situations in certain areas. Notwithstanding, efforts are still needed in creating large platforms for Big Data that are accessible and shared, ideally in conjunction with the Internet of Things to facilitate continuous data collection.

L.3

Processes automation through AI can be a ‘double-edged sword’, specially in developing countries where it may aggravate unemployment. Strategies are therefore required to strike a balance between automation and actions for reducing the digital breach across the population.

Recommendations

The proposed actions on which we introduce an opinion poll for this SDG, are described below:

Poll for SDG-1

The analyses of interrelationships between emerging technologies & AI, and the possibilities they offer to pursue the SDGs, led us to propose a series of actions and/or potential projects to develop.
Among these recommendations, which one is more important in your opinion?

Give my opinion

R1.1 - Governance based on blockchain for transparent decision-making against poverty

Prior analyses highlight the key role of government decisions, as well as the promotion of joint courses of action between nations, in order to put an end to economic inequalities and barriers to development that contribute to the spiral of poverty. The demonstrated efficiency, transparency, robustness against corruption and distributed nature of blockchain-based technologies, make it an important candidate to join strategic inter-government efforts towards an effective reduction of poverty. Even though its starring role so far has been closely linked to cybersecurity and cripto-currencies, the technological paradigm around blockchain also deserves further scientific attention as a tool to facilitate large-scale distributed decision-making, both nationwide and internationally.

R1.2 - Realistic, objective and universal measurement of poverty guided by Big Data

The quality, accountability and amount of necessary data to accurately measure poverty levels varies considerable from one nation to another. Recent studies on the use of machine learning via accessible data sources, suggest that there exist global opportunities to estimate the level of economic income in geographical areas, however these studies are still scarce and they require further exploration. To tackle this issue, we propose incentivising the creation of more accessible and shared Big Data infrastucures at large scale between nations, as well as intensifying efforts to widen the outreach of the Internet of Things in less urbanized areas.