While global targets are slightly off track, the mobile industry continues to play a crucial role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The mobile industry has achieved 58% of its potential contribution to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
“Growing usage of mobile-enabled activities is also pivotal to the mobile industry’s SDG contribution. For example, three billion people used mobile financial services in 2023. This drives mobile’s impact on multiple SDGs, including SDG one: no poverty, and SDG eight: decent work and economic growth, by helping individuals to manage their finances, while creating employment opportunities and raising productivity.
“Mobile technologies have advanced SDG one , reaching 2.1 billion of the world’s poorest, with nearly half now connected to mobile internet – a 770 million increase since 2015. Mobile is serving as a platform for users to access government services, job searches and obtain information about products and services, all of which help people to get out of poverty when used correctly.”
“This, in turn, is driving mobile-enabled services, enhancing the industry’s impact on SDG one and SDG eight by unlocking services such as mobile banking and mobile money, creating employment opportunities and raising productivity. “This growth challenge is set against the backdrop that SDG progress more generally is slowing in the face of challenging global headwinds, such as conflict and economic instability.”
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