AIC RAISE - SDG Impact Series Webinar on "Role of Entrepreneurship in achieving Sustainable Development Goals"
AIC RAISE took a very necessary step for youths by conducting a webinar on 'Role and Importance of Entrepreneurship in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals' on 21st October 2020 from 3.00 PM to 4.00 PM by the speaker Mr Mogen Naidoo, IVC Coach at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation.
The speaker Mr Mogen Naidoo made a clear-minded in the webinar from the starting to end. So, the objective of this webinar is never turned into the wrong path. In starting, he was explained his table of contents that he was going to speak and he starts his presentation without a delay. First, he initiated from explaining his life story under the topic of 'My Story'. And then he steps into the title 'Bringing SDG to life' by explaining how the Sustainable Development Goals created, expanded and its route of achievement and its goals. And next, Understanding SDG' by giving a speech on how we have to understand the SDG by not only topic as well as the deep study of understanding its social cause and how the 5P's helps the people to achieve the goals by dividing goals into Social, Economic, Environmental. And through sub-topics 'Target Indicators' and 'Integrated Reporting', he conveys about what are targets and indicators to achieve One Social, One Environmental and One Economic SDG with target 1.1and indicator 1.1.1 of Goal 1, Target 6.1and indicator 6.1.1 of Goal 6,and target 10.1and indicator 10.1.1 of Goal 10. And how to create the integrated reporting with aligning the SDG with value-creation process in our business and start-ups. And also, he added points of benefits of reporting. In another sub-topic, he speaks under the title 'Future Business' about the forming business in future by giving valuable points on System Conditions, Business Principles, Future-fit Goals with Global Challenges and Business Benefits. He also shares about "the Customers" by explaining how the customers changed in past decades of industry 3.0 & 4.0 and how they are going to be in 5.0. And he enters into 'Importance of Entrepreneurship' with subtitles such as Accelerate economic growth, Improves existing enterprises, Promotes R&D, Promotes Innovation, Promotes Social Changes. And he steps into'SocialEntrepreneurship' about how entrepreneurship is the target to achieve the targets 4.1 and 8.3 and Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 8 respectively. And he also explains about the other goals, SDG 9 and 17 concerning Africa. And he explains about personality traits of traditional entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs under the topic of 'Traditional vs. Social'. He told about the 'Business drivers' such as integrated reporting, System values, Importance of entrepreneurship which are helpful to achieve the SDG. He shares a glimpse about India's SME Economy and how to spot the opportunity with clear motivation and innovation do business models. He gives an example of 'DOUBLE DIAMOND DESIGN FRAMEWORK' on achieving Sanitation and Water's SDG 6, a project on Africa. And last but not least, Role of Government' in promoting entrepreneurship to achieve the SDG by making policy to enhance entrepreneurship with SDG. The audience has attended this webinar with lucidness in gaining knowledge about how the entrepreneurship will help to achieve SDG and these were reflected in their questions in the Q&A session. Mr Mogen Naidoo gave an excellent presentation, the way he communicated all points which are essential to know about the topic. And as overall it's an amazing webinar to gain knowledge on entrepreneurship, the importance of entrepreneurship, it's the pathway to achieve SDG.