Systemtransformation

Abstract

1. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision a world without poverty or hunger, in which high-quality healthcare and education are available to all, where gender inequalities have been abolished, where economic growth does not harm the environment and where peace and freedom reign all over the world. This new research quantifies the scale of the transformation needed: every country has achievement gaps in more than half of the SDGs and over a quarter of countries have achievement gaps in all 17 SDGs. GeSI’s research furthermore finds that digital solutions from all areas of life can directly contribute to SDG achievement: to all 17 goals and over 50 per cent of the 169 targets.