Items tagged with SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

According to Action Against Hunger, food insecurity in Nigeria registers a figure of 1.74 million children who suffered from malnutrition in the northern region of the country during 2022, while, by February 2023, just over 1.8 million of the inhabitants of Borno state have been internally displaced due to the activity of armed groups and bandits (OIM, 2023), and also, the several droughts, floods and land degradation due to climate change.

The present context of environmental degradation poses huge urgency to confronting the multiple challenges that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) offer. Health is a key issue as it acts as the Agenda’s cornerstone and interlinks every SDG and on the other hand, health achievement is not to be accomplished without the multiplicity of contributions of all the SGD.

Cities face important challenges along with an unstoppable digitalization. These challenges are ecosystemic as captured by the Sustainable Development Goals and also human and social and very interconnected with Human Rights. Ethics can help building digital cities from their design through actionable and protection-oriented principles and also principles that project the future that we want for cities. Furthermore, it is required to conceive new digital ecosystems as well as a enabling tissue based on collaboration, ethics and scientific grounds.