Information and Communications Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: State-of-the-Art, Needs and Perspectives
TL;DR: There are essential and urgent needs to raise the awareness and call for attentions on how to innovate and energize ICTs in order to best assist all nations to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
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Abstract: In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the 2030 Development Agenda, which has included 92 paragraphs, and the Paragraph 91 defined 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. The goal of this paper is to discover the correlations among SDGs and information and communications technologies (ICTs). This paper discusses the roles and opportunities that ICTs play in pursuing the SDGs. We identify a number of research gaps to those three pillars, social, economic, and environmental perspectives, of sustainable development. After extensive literature reviews on the SDG-related research initiatives and activities, we find that the majority of contributions to SDGs recognized by the IEEE and ACM research communities have mainly focused on the technical aspects while there are lack of the holistic social good perspectives. Therefore, there are essential and urgent needs to raise the awareness and call for attentions on how to innovate and energize ICTs in order to best assist all nations to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
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TABLE I: Initiatives and activities for SDGs ![Fig. 1: 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the 2030 agenda for sustainable development [1].](/figures/figure1-1-71mewoc5v1er.png)
Fig. 1: 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the 2030 agenda for sustainable development [1]. 
Fig. 4: Two steps to achieve digital inclusion for ending poverty in technological aspect. 
Fig. 2: Five fundamentals of SDGs. 
Fig. 5: The ICTs based architecture to promote the environmental SDGs. 
Fig. 3: 17 SDGs are classified into three dimensions according to human needs.
![Fig. 1: 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the 2030 agenda for sustainable development [1].](/figures/figure1-1-71mewoc5v1er.webp)
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