Last summer season, Samsung Electronics introduced its partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assist the Sustainable Development Goals, also called the Global Goals. Developed in 2015, the 17 Global Goals have been set by the United Nations General Assembly and agreed upon by world leaders to assist sort out a few of the globe’s most urgent challenges.
In order to offer easy methods for Galaxy customers to return collectively to assist the Global Goals, Samsung and the UNDP launched an schooling and donation-based app, Samsung Global Goals. The app supplies Galaxy customers with the flexibility to study extra concerning the Global Goals and participate in small actions to assist handle the problems that matter most to them.
To present the perfect consumer expertise attainable, together with extra methods to get entangled, Samsung is bringing a variety of updates to the Samsung Global Goals app this January.
More Ways to Join in and Give Back
The Samsung Global Goals app gives a variety of how for customers to assist and provides again to the Global Goals. By participating with ads within the app, customers are in a position to donate 100% of an advert’s income to the Global Goals. Samsung additionally lately introduced that it’s going to match all proceeds generated by the in-app ads to assist maximize donations and make an impression, which means that successfully 200% of advert income from the app might be donated to the UNDP by Samsung1.
The app additionally permits customers to donate straight in assist of the Global Goals to the UNDP. With the newest app updates, customers will have the ability to use each Samsung Pay and Google Pay2 native fee mechanisms when donating. This will enable customers to straight donate to the UNDP and the Goal of their alternative by merely clicking after which confirming utilizing biometric authentication – making it simpler than ever to make a distinction and donation to the #Global Goals marketing campaign.
Samsung can also be making it simpler for customers to decide into options that assist generate extra advert earnings, even when their cellphone is charging. Users can at present decide into the ‘Charge Screen ads’ characteristic within the Donate tab of the app, which is able to present advertisements on the machine’s lock display screen when it’s plugged in to cost. As a part of the replace, the app will now immediate new customers with a pop-up message offering data on this characteristic as soon as their machine has been plugged in to cost. This characteristic may be simply toggled on and off anytime within the Donate tab.
Additionally, customers will have the ability to get pleasure from a wider vary of lock display screen choices within the app’s Global Goals Lockscreen Wallpapers part, which might simply be managed within the app’s Settings web page. The new wallpapers now assist a wider choice of inspirational quotes, dynamic visuals, and graphic kinds, making simpler to remain engaged and impressed to contribute.
The replace additionally brings a number of different UX upgrades to the Samsung Global Goals app. App notification messages have been streamlined for improved usability, every Goals’ Facts and Figures data is now extra clearly linked to every Goal and customers can extra simply see which model of the app they’re working. Galaxy customers in Korea may also now have the ability to study concerning the Okay-SDGs, or Korean Sustainable Development Goals, within the Samsung Global Goals app because of a collaboration with Korea’s Ministry of Environment.
The Samsung Global Goals app is obtainable for obtain by the Galaxy Store and Google Play. To study extra concerning the Samsung Global Goals, go to right here.
1 Samsung has pledged to match donations with advert proceeds generated by the Global Goals app; as much as US$5 million yearly.
2 Donations by Samsung Pay or Google Pay might be out there in 5 markets following the present replace, together with the U.S., Singapore, Australia, the U.Okay., and Canada. This characteristic might be out there in additional areas sooner or later.
