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The Global Goals are a set of 17 commitments made by 193 world leaders, to end extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change by 2030.
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals.
Seven years on, we have made progress, but there is still work to be done, and the Goals are more important than ever. The climate crisis. Ensuring no one goes hungry. Human rights abuses. Extreme poverty. Problems of this scale can be overwhelming, but the Global Goals(also known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) are the solution to tackling them.
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The Global Goals are ambitious, but with great ambition we can achieve great things! To the small organisations advocating for girls to be educated, to the individuals turning plastic waste into something reusable and the businesses innovating to drive change, we see you. If we all take an active part in championing at least one Goal, our society will be better for all of us. What will your contribution be? Use our tool to share what your change advocating for and what’s on your World’s To-Do List.
What can you do?
Every positive action you take, no matter how small, has the power to make a difference. Supporting a clean the oceans campaign, switching to greener products, standing up for justice, and reminding your leaders of the promise of the Global Goals are all good places to start.
Schools
Discover the World’s Largest Lesson, an educational platform which promotes the use of the Goals in learning. There are thought-provoking lesson plans and activities and resources for teachers/children to use, all designed to motivate and inspire young people to become informed and active citizens, and build the world they want to grow up in.
Business
Whether you’re a business or employee, at the start of your sustainability journey or developing your next set of commitments, we’ve got useful resources to support your contribution to the Global Goals.
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The computer age introduced a new element to businesses, universities, and a multitude of other organizations: a set of components called the information system, which deals with collecting and organizing data and information. An information system is described as having five components.
Computer hardware
This is the physical technology that works with information. Hardware can be as small as a smartphone that fits in a pocket or as large as a supercomputer that fills a building. Hardware also includes the peripheral devices that work with computers, such as keyboards, external disk drives, and routers. With the rise of the Internet of things, in which anything from home appliances to cars to clothes will be able to receive and transmit data, sensors that interact with computers are permeating the human environment.
Computer software
The hardware needs to know what to do, and that is the role of software. Software can be divided into two types: system software and application software. The primary piece of system software is the operating system, such as Windows or iOS, which manages the hardware’s operation. Application software is designed for specific tasks, such as handling a spreadsheet, creating a document, or designing a Web page.
Telecommunications
This component connects the hardware together to form a network. Connections can be through wires, such as Ethernet cables or fibre optics, or wireless, such as through Wi-Fi. A network can be designed to tie together computers in a specific area, such as an office or a school, through a local area network (LAN). If computers are more dispersed, the network is called a wide area network (WAN). The Internet itself can be considered a network of networks.
Databases and data warehouses
This component is where the “material” that the other components work with resides. A database is a place where data is collected and from which it can be retrieved by querying it using one or more specific criteria. A data warehouse contains all of the data in whatever form that an organization needs. Databases and data warehouses have assumed even greater importance in information systems with the emergence of “big data,” a term for the truly massive amounts of data that can be collected and analyzed.
Human resources and procedures
The final, and possibly most important, component of information systems is the human element: the people that are needed to run the system and the procedures they follow so that the knowledge in the huge databases and data warehouses can be turned into learning that can interpret what has happened in the past and guide future action.