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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs: ITU AI for Good Innovation Factory 2020-2024 Activities Report
Geneva: ITU (2024), vi, 42 pp.
AI for Good: Impact Report
Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 80 pp.
United Nations Activities on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2023
Geneva: ITU (2024), xviii, 366 pp.
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Development Communication to Sustainability Communication
Studies in Communication Sciences, volume 23, issue 1 (2023), pp. 121-135
"At the highest international political level, the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 after having announced (and later not fulfilled) the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. This shift from the MDGs to the SDGs, in which the term development was replac
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The Mediation of Sustainability: Development Goals, Social Movements, and Public Dissent
Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield (2023), 250 pp.
"This book examines the way in which SDG initiatives have been disseminated by mainstream media, in government discourse and by NGO’s, charitable organisations, and campaign groups. It questions to what extent sustainability narratives are being supported and how they are represented; how saving t
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SDG18 Communication for All, Vol 1: The Missing Link Between SDGs and Global Agendas
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxvi, 299 pp.
"In 2015, the UN Member States adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing universal access to healthcare and education, and addressing climate change; to the partnering of individuals, communit
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SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda
Key Guides
"This Agenda explores how digital technologies are already being used to accelerate progress toward the SDGs, and how inclusive digital transformation can be scaled further. The Agenda also showcases 34 digital solutions, two for each SDG, highlighting the power and potential of digital. The solutio
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Governing the Interlinkages Between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 247 pp.
"The book [...] examines the dedicated policies targeting the SDGs, as well as political and institutional drivers of synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs in selected key areas – both cross-nationally and in specific country contexts. Their analysis moves beyond the focus on links between SDG
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What Difference Does it Make? The Importance of Documentary to Sustainable Development Goals in a Post-Truth World
In: The Mediation of Sustainability: Development Goals, Social Movements, and Public Dissent
Rowman & Littlefield (2023), pp. 117-136
"The landscape of documentaries has changed greatly in the twenty-first century. From a niche form, with few productions, to global distribution via social media. Post-truth documentaries largely have a sense of outsiders challenging the status quo, delivered by self-proclaimed experts with anecdote
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
New York: Routledge (2023), xxx, 522 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edit
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Digital Development, Inequalities & the Sustainable Development Goals: What Does ‘Leave No-One Behind’ Mean for ICT4D?
Information Technology for Development, volume 29, issue 1 (2023), pp. 9-26
"The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place great emphasis on inequalities and pledge to leave no-one behind. For the field of digital development, this objective presents a particular challenge. While digital technologies can be utilized to reduce certain inequalities, they ar
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Localising Sustainable Development Goals Through Participatory Community Radio in Ghana
Journal of Development Communication, volume 34, issue 1 (2023), pp. 38-46
"There seems to be little knowledge and awareness of the relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among communities in Ghana. The study’s main objective was to find out how the 22-member Community Radio (CR) stations of the Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN) – the umbrella organis
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Mapping the Public Voice for Development: Natural Language Processing of Social Media Text Data
Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), xi, 114 pp.
"This report aims to introduce techniques and procedures of NLP (Natural Language Processing), the computational preparation and analysis of text data, to map the public voice and aid development. First, the report introduces essential concepts of communication and elaborates on the theoretical foun
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The Role of Media: Driving Change Towards the SDGs
New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2022), 18 pp.
"In the following brief, we encapsulate those findings and present the relationship between media and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the struggle to achieve Agenda 2030 takes on ever greater urgency, the role of independent media in achieving the SDGs is crucial. Not on
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The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxiv, 635 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical and applied contributions from scholars in E
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2021 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals
London: GSMA (2021), 61 pp.
"Chapter 1, by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), presents an overview of indicators from the Global State of Democracy Indices, which provide complementary indicators to measure progress on SDG Targets 16.3; 16.5, on reducing corruption and brib
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Best Practices of Community Radio and Sustainable Development Goals: A Handbook
Deep Insights
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA); UNESCO (2021), 429 pp.
"The two objectives that this compilation set for itself were documenting community radio best practices and creating a robust sector through knowledge sharing and collaborative learning. The 96 stories [from Bangladesh, India and Nepal] included in the compilation capture the various ways in which
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Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Deep Insights
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose
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