“Business recognizes we can make the world sustainable... and business can’t sit back and wait for government to set the rules. Business must lead.”

There were the words of Peter Bakker, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, who spoke at the United Nations Digital Media Zone yesterday.

With the advent of high-level meetings at the UN, conversation around achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has amped up. At the Digital Media Zone, the world’s top change-makers have been giving interviews while leaders in business and NGOs have joined delegates and celebrities to discuss how the world can collectively achieve corporate social responsibility. Nowhere has the narrative been more engaging than around innovations in mobile broadband technology as a tool for social good.

Mobile Innovators

Among the innovators are organizations such as Techfugees, a global community of tech entrepreneurs that are connecting Refugees to mobile solutions through apps that help migrants locate desperately-needed resources, from food to legal advice. “Our goal is to galvanize tech communities around the world... to have them get involved with non-profits on the ground. We want bring the innovation and agility of the technology world to [these causes],” said Andlib Shah, head of the Techfugees US chapter.

Techfugee projects include the Refugee Aid App, which connects the world’s most vulnerable migrants to clean water, warm clothing, and support channels, and Refunite, which reunites fragmented families.

 

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