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ICT as an Enabler for a Society where No One is Left Behind

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Niina Maarit Novak,

A. Min TjoaAuthors Info & Claims

iiWAS2018: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3282373.3282381

Published: 19 November 2018 Publication History

Abstract

The United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development was unanimously adopted by all its 193 heads of member states or their representatives. "No-one should be left behind" is the ethical imperative of this development agenda. The agenda consists of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets. Unfortunately not even one of the (SDGs) is dedicated to ICT or Digitalization. Prima facie, the potential impact of ICT and digitalization is highly underestimated in the text of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This paper is aiming at pointing out the indispensable role of ICT for reaching the SDGs by 2030.

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Index Terms

ICT as an Enabler for a Society where No One is Left Behind
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
  2. Life and medical sciences
    1. Consumer health
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
      1. Open source software
    2. Digital libraries and archives
  2. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services

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