{"id":7299,"date":"2020-01-06T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","slug":"technology-catalyst-to-achieving-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/06\/technology-catalyst-to-achieving-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Catalyst To Achieving Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rapid technological change\ncan catalyse the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technological innovations can\ngive policymakers an enabling platform and powerful tools to design and plan\ndevelopment interventions, according to the &#8220;United Nations Economic and\nSocial Council 2019&#8221; report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big Data and machine learning\ncan be used to create, measure and develop and monitor the effectiveness of\ndevelopment programmes and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals\n(SDGs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cGlobal Pulse 2014\u201d report shows the proliferation of mobile phone technologies\u2019 activity and airtime credit purchases estimate multidimensional poverty indicators accurately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondly, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensing, drones and artificial intelligence (AI) may catalyse precision farming, reducing the number of agrochemical inputs for existing agricultural processes, thus improving food security, nutrition and agricultural development countrywide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Technology-catalyst-to-achieving-goals\/440808-5404174-p87sjv\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid technological change can catalyse the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Technological innovations can give policymakers an enabling platform and powerful tools to design and plan development interventions, according to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}