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Tech experts, gamers use skills to achieve UN development targets

Tech experts, gamers use skills to achieve UN development targets

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Hands-free gardening for a greener future, using video games to achieve the UN global development goals – these are just some of the ideas that are being shared at a conference in the German city of Bonn.

The first-ever Global Festival of Ideas on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) wrapped up on Friday, after three days of intense debates and “game-playing”.

We’ll hear from the technology experts, gamers and activists who are putting their minds together to figure out how to best to help countries implement the UN’s vision of just and equal world.

Reem Abaza reports from Bonn.

Duration: 4'02"

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