Title:
To save the world, the UN is turning it into a computer simulation - A new tool allows governments to try out different strategies to reach lofty goals
Author:
Will Bedingfield
Published:
Wired, 29 June 2020
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/un-computer-simulation
From the article:
In 2015, the United Nations Member States signed up to a set of 17 sustainable-development goals or SDGs, to be reached by 2030. These goals are utopian, including lofty aspirations like ending poverty and "ensuring that all people enjoy peace and prosperity". The UN has now announced its new secret recipe to achieve these goals: a computer simulation called Policy Priority Inference (PPI).