Beyond Data Monitoring - Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support): Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost ... Everything (Re-Engineering Earth Book 1) by ROBERT David STEELE Vivas

Author:ROBERT David STEELE Vivas
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Earth Intelligence Network
Published: 2015-02-24T08:00:00+00:00

Figure 10: Hand-Held Educational Application Accelerating SDG Achievement

Total Impact True Cost Economics

We are deeply heartened by the discovery of the IEAG Background Research Paper “Measuring total Impact: A new Language for Business Decisions” (PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) International, May 2013). We have appreciated this work from other sources,[xix] and below offer an improved graphic adapted from their latest manifestation.

Figure 11: PwC Concept for Measuring Total Impact / True Cost

This work by PwC is very important and we hope it will become central to IEAG discussions and ideally central, along with our own ideas, to a new Report from the Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, a living document backed up by a living database, of true costs associated with all elements within each of the SDG domains. That report could be a principal product of UNODIN and a globally distributed network of contributing authors drawn from all authors, all citizens, and all students.

It merits comment that PwC has also excelled at documenting waste within individual domains. Their study of US healthcare, finding that 50% of every healthcare dollar is waste, stands as an example for others to follow.[xx] Waste on the order of 45-75% has been found by others across all the SDG domains from agriculture to energy to the military and water. Pro-active education by the UN along these lines will radically impact on SDG achievement.

In terms of using information to create intelligence to educate the public, move markets, and impact on the SDGs with something more valuable than money – distributed knowledge inspiring collective action – we find the PwC effort extraordinary, all the more so because it is respected by the Mars Family, among others, whose emphasis on “Mutuality Economics” opens a door for UN engagement. We have identified 25 specific billionaires – most US but several not – whom the Secretary-General could approach individually and immediately to discuss this paper and the possibilities of UNODIN as a hub for public intelligence (decision-support) and open source engineering innovation.

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