The Role of Digital Innovations in Information Management in Fostering Sustainable Development in Africa
- December 2, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS Team
- Categories: IJRISS, Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Nyapela, Matthews Abijah
Phd Student, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Abstract
Digital innovation in information management is an interdisciplinary program, which thoroughly blends together well-founded knowledge on the establishment and management of various systems of information alongside critical observation of the current digital innovation. Courtesy of fourth industrial revolution, the comprehensive achievement of these innovations will cause a dynamic and formidable boost in enhancing the achievement of the goals of the noble program for sustainable development in Africa. This sustainable development program in Africa is a global organization whose objectives include support to governments, scholarly institutions, local societies and businesses, for the purpose of enhancing and accelerating achievement of goals. The program’s initiative constitutes of the seventeen (17) global goals for sustainable development (SDGs), which is a major portion in the broader 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that is born out of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I hereby endeavor to elucidate on the role played by the innovated digital information management in fostering each of the SDGs in Africa. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, ascertain, examine, assess, evaluate and establish the role of digitally innovated information management in facilitating the achievement of each of the seventeen global goals for the full satisfaction of their subsequent objectives. The subsequent objective of this paper is to clearly mark and define particular areas of significance in each of the seventeen goals in this program that are facilitated and enhanced by innovated digital information management.
Key words
Digital: business processes that change to fit with the computing world.
Innovation: A new idea, creative thoughts, new imaginations in form of device or method that is applied to satisfy a need.
System: A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network.
Introduction
The fourth industrial revolution is a technology platform that has introduced a new chapter in human civilization such that it has altered our mode of life, work and interaction among global populace. This platform accounts for the incredible advances in technology unparalleled by its preceding three industrial revolutions. Among the striking characteristics of fourth industrial revolution include, and are not limited to; the homogeneous blending of biological, digital, and physical spheres, with the integrative growth of new technology in the components of various innovations. Digital information is undergoing a dynamic enhancement courtesy of these new technologies, which have heightened its resourcefulness in fostering the attainment of each of the stated sustainable development goals
