Global Goals : Every Achievement Counts | Content Structure Preview & Briefing

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Table of Content
Message from Chief Editor
Reading Guide
Section 1: Sustainable Development
A Sense of Urgency
How Do You Define Sustainability?
Circular Economy and Resilient Cities
Section 2: Global Goals
East Meet West
Sustainable Development Goals
Belt Road Initiatives
Section 3: Social Enterprise
What Is Social Enterprise?
Why Social Enterprise?
Sustainable Business Models
Section 4: Digital Transformation
Digital Future: What Is In It For Everybody?
Digitization: Catch Up or Left Out
Going Digital: What It Takes and What We Get
Section 5: Resource Management
ABCDE The World?
True Wealth: Shelter, Healthcare, Energy, Food, Education, Entertainment
Future Cities: People. Process. Technology.
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Message from Chief Editor
There has never been a problem with the resources;
The problems lie within distribution.
While this may sound contradictory to what many would choose to believe, there is
some truth in it. We don’t need rocket science to illustrate the situation. Simply look
around and you will find that in certain areas of any big city, there are people and
businesses who are wasting tonnes of food on a daily basis while at the other part of the
same city, many could be still starving or trying hard just to make ends meet.
The problem is, this is just the tip of the iceberg. What if we explore further into areas
other than food wastage, such as consumption of natural resources and allocation of
manpower? Had things been optimized to its full potential or there exist loopholes
draining the resources that would eventually sink the entire ship?
We only have one planet to live on and if it’s not in our good hands to secure the future
for our children and generations to come, then in whose custody and responsibilities
shall this be?

Reading Guide
There are 5 main sections in this book. Sustainability is the underlying principle that
connects all relevant elements presented in the content. We start with exploring
sustainable development from a holistic view. Then we check out where the world is
heading from both the east and west perspectives, led by two prominent super powers.
While a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, equipped with the right
tools and having a sound strategy is not less important. As digital transformation is
happening at every corner of the world, it is vital to check out the basics so that things
are aligned and up to date. Go along the waves, and we save ourselves a lot of hustles.
Finally, it’s the effective resource management that we are after. It shall be well
presented in our near future through materialized social, economy, and environmental
achievements. That would be when we successfully actualize the distribution of
resources in a fairer, open and transparent manner. The progress and achievements
shall be supported by hard facts and numbers, with the assistance of state-of-the-art
technologies as we collaboratively progress towards a better and sustainable future.

Note: This document is a pre-printing content sneak preview. Final content may be
slightly different from the one presented in this document.
Section Discussion Areas
Sustainable Development Why is sustainability important?
Three Dimensions and Triple Bottom Line
Global Goals Where are we heading?
Where do you want to go?
What problems are you solving?
Social Enterprise (Business
Model)
How are you going to do it?
Who are the stakeholders?
Digital Transformation What are the tools and ways to achieve the goals?
How to scale and speed up the processes?
Effective Resource
Management
How do we prove the statement “there has never
been problem with the resources, the problems lie
within distribution” true?

Section 1: Sustainable Development
A Sense of Urgency
We are the first generation to end poverty and may be the last generation to solve the
climate challenge. While poverty is man-made, as most people started to realize by
now, success is the only option for handling climate issues. The good news is, with
more awareness and capability in handling environmental and social challenges, we
can now do far more better with advancement and assistance of emerging technologies.
Yet the question remains, are we willing to do that, without further ado, wholeheartedly?
In what condition of our one and only planet Earth that we want our future generations
to inherit?
How Do You Define Sustainability?
People may have their own definition when it comes to different things, mainly due to
personal belief or experience, i.e. where they come from. It’s a matter of perspective. If
we were to look from the business point of view, sustainability is none other than how
long a business can survive without any revenue stream. From the environment
perspective, it would be the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to
maintain an ecological balance. How would the 3 dimensions of sustainable
development bring good to personal, community, and the world as a whole? How can
the triple bottom line be fine tuned to ensure sustainability?
Circular Economy and Resilient Cities
Have you ever wondered that instead of the take, make, consume and waste model, we
can actually do better with the circular model when it comes to production, especially
those that consume our natural resources? How would a twist in the mindset and way of
doing things make a huge difference in contributing to the impactful development of our
society, economy and environment? What are the cutting-edge best practices that we
could learn from success cases that ensure the livelihood of a city? What are the
options for innovative green infrastructure?

Section 2: Global Goals
East Meet West
At the time of writing, two global powers are leading the world towards a better future.
Though the lead organization, direction and strategies might seem different, the end
goal is the same, as they both cover the People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and
Partnership, obviously stated or not. Ironically, one of the causes was initiated by the
United Nations in 2015, started from the West, and the other one was initiated by the
Chinese government of the People's Republic of China, which happened to be a nation
from the East. Though originated from different parts of the world, both great causes
should be pursued as they are for the common good.
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was introduced by the United Nations in 2015
to transform our world into a better place. There are currently 17 goals which are
interrelated. The goals focused on solving most of the great challenges faced by human
beings, all living creatures and the planet at the moment. The purpose of the goals is to
provide a guided and meaningful direction for the world to move towards 2030, as we
strive our best to solve global challenges through our collaborative efforts by aligning
our activities and businesses to achieve the goals while contributing to social,
economic, and environment development in a positive way.
Belt Road Initiatives
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), formerly known as One Belt One Road (OBOR), is the
short form for the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road.
The Chinese adopted this global development strategy in 2013, which involves
development and investment of infrastructure across 70 countries and global
organizations in Asia, Europe, and Africa. The project set a targeted completion date of
2049, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. It is
a government led initiative in forging new partnerships characterized by win-win
cooperation and building a community of shared future.

Section 3: Social Enterprise
What Is Social Enterprise?
Social Enterprises are organizations that address a basic unmet need or solve a social
or environmental problem through a market-driven approach. By comparison, social
enterprise takes the approach of getting the best of both worlds from conventional
business models and conventional charitable organizations models. It takes a balance
stance between those two models. By aligning business to United Nations SDGs
leveraging the social enterprise model, it brings business to not only sustainable
profitability but with better purposes and real impact to Social, Economy, and
Environment development.
Why Social Enterprise?
While it seems like there are rooms of improvement to both the conventional business
models and those of charitable organizations, social enterprise is filling the gap to make
things work better. By taking care of social, economic and environmental impact at the
same time while not losing the ability to self sustain, social enterprise can strike the
balance between business model that goes after only maximum profit and charity model
that goes after only maximum social impact. Social enterprise promotes, encourages,
and makes social change alongside its daily business activities, which ensure
sustainability by itself, A walk the talk approach.
Sustainable Business Models
How long can our business sustain? Can our business sustain without any income for 3
months consecutively? What are the best ways or models to ensure business
profitability, if not at least sustainability? These are just some of the very important
questions to be considered before venturing into any business. This has been more
alarming with the global pandemic outbreak in 2020, when none of the business has
ever experienced such a long period of lock down in most countries, which is not under
a physical war condition. The awareness towards business sustainability had been
brought up through a hard reality hit. Businesses were tested with extreme cruelty.

Section 4: Digital Transformation
Digital Future: What Is In It For Everybody?
We can’t avoid all the tech jargons if we were to talk about and discuss further on the
digital future.Things like Gig Economy, Slashers, or even new terms that had yet to be
coined alongside invention of new technologies and new ways of living or doing
business. How would anyone foresee terms like Youtuber, Instagramer, Tik-toker,
datanomics, predictive analytics etc prior to these tech achievements and real world
application? What would the future of jobs look like? No matter how things progress and
develop, it is going to touch us or affect us in a way or another.
Digitization: Catch Up or Left Out
Like it or not, it is not up to us to decide whether to embrace digital technology or not.
Digitization has become a necessity, especially for businesses. It’s a must and it must
be embraced now. Almost everything that concerns our economy is being digitized.
Things as small as our daily routine reminders to nation state level decision making.
Things as simple as measuring our heart beat to monitoring pandemic data on a global
scale. The only choices left to us are to either catch up or be left out in this unstoppable
wave of digitization.
Going Digital: What It Takes and What We Get
Going digital is not merely putting your business on the internet, nor is it simply setting
up a social media page or channel and hope for automatic crowd pulling. It takes more
than what it seems, far more than what most people think it is all about. While
leveraging digital technology to make life easier makes sense to a certain level, there is
still lots of hard work and effort to be put into it. For instance, resource investment such
as time and money, learning curve, opportunity costs etc. Either you pay with money or
something else, such as time and data. You make your own choice and take full
responsibility to it.

Section 5: Resource Management
ABCDE The World?
Emerging tech plays a vital role in shaping our future. Each and every single technology
has its niche to assist us in building a better world. No single tech works alone and only
by knitting relevant and related technologies together properly that we are able to
augment the future we ought to have. Nonetheless, to make things simpler and easier
to be comprehended by the masses, four key technology clusters supported by a single
element have been identified and should be made into a collective global movement -
ABCDE The World.
True Wealth: Shelter, Healthcare, Energy, Food, Education,
Entertainment
Livelihood of human beings are centered around six core categories. We need a place
to shelter so we can keep living and moving forward with our progress. Proper work and
rest routine to keep us afresh. Food is the non-negotiable survival needs as defined by
our Creator. Without health, everything else is meaningless. Energy powers up most of
the utilities we need. Education makes us literate and enables legacy. For continual
survival of human beings as a species on this planet. Last but not least, entertainment
puts a balance onto our life. Taking the first letter from each category, we got
S.H.E.F.E.E. to produce true wealth.
Future Cities: People. Process. Technology.
It is not about the technology. Technologies are just the enabler. It is people that
matters. Progress and development that are people centric make more sense than
simply focus on how advanced a technology can be. After all, we create things to make
our life better and to make the world a better place to live. The process in which we
create and manage these creations, which include but are not limited to technologies, is
what ensures our species’ progress and survival on this planet, and most likely our
voyage into outer space in the near future. No matter how far we go, our grounded
reality would be a sustainable development of this single planet we have.

Our Team
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integration, and digital media landscape. Currently a
business strategist specialized in digital transformation
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