Giving Compass' Take:

• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Global Team discusses the steps communities around the world can do to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, including advancing technology for good.

• Collaboration is also a key element to the effort, and social entrepreneurship is discussed here. How can we support bold new ideas in the development space through impact-driven funding?

• Here's more on the ways we can measure and evaluate progress towards the Global Goals.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aren’t just another set of goals or framework. These are a global call to action for human rights to all citizens worldwide. On October 10, 2018, RELX Group held an SDG Inspiration Day to discuss themes of innovative financing, new agriculture, dissemination of information and machine learning. Although the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has calculated that it will take US$5 to $7 trillion to achieve the SDGs, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission highlights that achieving the SDGs will create at least $12 trillion in market opportunities because of advancements in innovation. So when a participant asked, “What is needed from us?”, Speaker Amanda Ellis, Executive Director of Hawaii and Asia Pacific at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, responded with three needs:

  1. Technology for Good,
  2. Global Connectivity, and
  3. Scale Ideas and Innovations.

Read the full article about achieving the SDGs by Kelly Diggins at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.