Impact Perspectives

Youth in 2020: Entering the Global Stage It is a scary time to be a young adult. The climate crisis changing the world, at an unprecedented scale is a reality; COVID-19 has robbed a whole generation of milestones like graduation, and college tours, and we are in the middle of the largest civil rights movement […]

We are currently living in the age of digitalization and data visualization, and the sustainability and impact universe are not exempt from this trend. Stakeholders will hold corporates, the public, and development sectors accountable; with an expectation of access to accurate and dynamic data-driven information. In today’s fast-paced, content-heavy world, stakeholders will not make time […]

In 2018, the UAE hosted the second UN World Data Forum, reflecting the commitment of the UN and the UAE to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The major themes explored at the Forum revolved around identifying data for impact, measuring gender data, building trust in data and technology, and creating a healthy data ecosystem. Continuing […]

Sustainable Development Goals (should) represent the best the international development community has to offer. They are aspirational and inspirational, comprehensive and inclusive.Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs include the public sector, the private sector and the individual. They break down the most complex challenges we are facing into what seems like manageable, bite-sized issues […]

Thanks to Richard Curtis and Project Everyone, the UN Sustainable Development Goals when released were communicated with a bang through beautiful, colorful and vibrant visualizations and videos. Being popularly coined as the ‘Global Goals', a catchier phrase than the Sustainable Development Goals, these campaigns created show stopping awareness but unintentionally opened doors to unauthentic tactics [...]

This week, Triple Pundit, one of the world’s leading sustainable business media platforms featured ampUz Founder Ayla Bajwa in a story that covered her journey with the UN Global Compact’s UAE chapter and why she has brought her background in technology and sustainability to create ampUz. You can read the article here: https://www.triplepundit.com/2018/08/meet-this-leader-striving-to-boost-the-effectiveness-of-the-un-global-compact-and-sdgs-in-dubai/ and follow […]