The Affective Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership, Capacity-Building, and Big Data

The aim of this research was to investigate influence of strategic management practices and service delivery at public hospitals in Kenya: a case of Kenyatta National Hospital. Specifically, the study aimed to investigate the effect of communication and capacity building on service delivery in KNH. The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 as a call to action to end poverty and protect the environment. The third goal of the Sustainable Development Goals is to promote health and well-being among people of all ages. The aim was to reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. Kenya is, however one of the countries where the target of sustainable development has not been achieved. Among other variables, this was due to service delivery in health facilities. As the largest referral hospital, KNH is also facing service quality problems. The challenges lead to sluggish patient diagnosis and care, unduly long appointments leading to insufficient treatment adherence, and high population expectations for outstretched services. This research used a descriptive style. The Krejcie and Morgan formula was used to generate a sample size of 346 people from a target population of 3,006. To determine the sample size, stratified proportionate sampling was used. A pilot research was conducted to ensure that the instruments were valid. Descriptive and inferential method were used to analyze the results. Students, scholars, and KNH decision-makers should all learn from this research. The study established that there was a statistically significant influence of communication on service delivery at public hospitals in Kenya. The study also revealed that there was a statistically significant effect of capacity building on service delivery at public hospitals in Kenya. Keywords: Capacity building, Communication, Strategic management practices

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Big data in support of the sustainable development goals (continued): a celebration of the establishment of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS)

Big Earth Data ◽

10.1080/20964471.2021.2009228 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 443-444

Author(s):

Huadong Guo ◽

Heide Hackmann ◽

Ke Gong

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Big Data ◽

International Research ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Research Center ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Goals

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Mapping Global Youth and Religion. Big Data As Lens to Envision a Sustainable Development Future

Tripodos ◽

10.51698/tripodos.2020.48p33-52 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 33-52

Author(s):

Josep-Lluís Micó-Sanz ◽

Miriam Diez-Bosch ◽

Alba Sabaté-Gauxachs ◽

Verónica Israel-Turim

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Big Data ◽

Young People ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Change Culture

Having fun and buying goods. For the young people of the world between 18 and 25, these are their main concerns on social media, as demonstrated by this study, which aims to identify the interests of global youth and also to unveil religion’s place in this generation (Lim and Parker, 2020; Tilleczek and Campbell, 2019). The role of values and education among them (Zamora-Polo et al., 2020), and the influencers and social leaders they follow are also included among the results of this research, which also plans to discern their potential alignment with the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals. For this purpose, more than 540 million Facebook and Instagram profiles have been analyzed using social listening (Couldry, 2006) through a Big Data based methodology. The results are new values (Kimball, 2019) and new ways to envisage religion, and depict an evolving landscape with change, culture and consumption pointing the way. Keywords: big data, religion, youth, social media, sustainable development goals.

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