SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL:9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

 

Economic growth, social development, and climate action are heavily depen­dent on investments in infrastructure, sustainable industrial development,t and technological progress.

Basic infrastructure like roads, information and communication technologies, sanitation, electrical power, and water remain scarce in many developing countries.

The growth of new industries means improvement in the standard of living for many of us.

If industries pursue sustain­ability, this approach will have a positive effect on the environment.

Failing to improve infrastructure and promote techno­logical innovation could translate into poor health care, inadequate sanitation, and limited access to education.

In the face of a rapidly changing global economic landscape and increasing inequalities, sustained growth must include industrialization.

The industrial sector proves to be particularly challenging in geographical areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa, whose industrialization levels remain low or have stagnated, thus undergoing a much slower pace of progress in poverty eradication.

Given the industry’s role as a core driver of the global develop­ment agenda to eradicate poverty and advance sustainable development, collaborating with NGOs and the public sector to help promote sus­tainable growth within developing countries would be very useful.

Investments in infrastructure and technologies that simultaneously reduce time burdens and drudgery, curb carbon emissions, and create jobs.

Investment in water pumps, electricity, clean cookstoves, mini-grids, publicly and collectively owned mills, and grinding machinery, all have the potential to support growth.

Many rural and remote areas are cut off from economic opportunities, markets, and public services, which lock residents in low productivity and poverty.

It is critical that investments in these areas increase and their impact is adequately tracked.

In this present-day digital era, sustainable development goals are essential for human survival.

Information Communication Technology (ICT) is one such important factor in helping society to build a more equitable, transparent, and sustainable world by removing communication disturbances and creating a transparent and inclusive system.

In the light of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digitization the scope of sustainable development depends on many non-traditional developmental indicators, which play a major role in the development of most developed nations.

For sustainable development in the age of digitization, vital factors are the construction and maintenance of adequate economic and social infrastructure for building a robust innovation ecosystem suitable to achieve sustainable development goals.

Infrastructure, innovation, business environment, and workforce qualifications have to be the focal points of economic policies and planning.

Information Communication Technology (ICT) is the infrastructure any country should focus on.

Thus, in other to achieve SDG 9, building resilient infrastructures, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation, should be incorporated into the strategy to restore economic growth.

Developing countries currently lack sufficient, good-quality data to plan, monitor, and evaluate ICT for SDG policies.

 

To increase the availability and quality of these data, efforts to strengthen the capacity of national statistical systems in producing ICT statistics must be increased.

 

Policy-makers must invest significant efforts in ICT connectivity to improve the real-world ‘analog’ complements or regulatory frameworks.

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