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Goal 9. Infrastructure, Industrialization, Innovation

ICTs for a Sustainable World

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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure


           
ITU is poised to play a key role helping to achieve SDG 9. including. Goal 9c to “significantly increase access to ICT and strive to provide universal and affordable access to Internet in the LDCs (least-developed countries) by 2020”.

Without the digital infrastructure that powers our wireless world and forms the backbone of our digital economy, the world would not be able to deliver the ICT applications that  enable scalable solutions to the SDGs. ITU believes broadband must be considered essential infrastructure for the 21st-century due to its capacity to power industry and innovation. And ITU’s role in the adopt­ing of globally harmonized spectrum and standards is essential to facilitate the development of transformative digital infrastructure, such as 5G systems, that will drive scalable solutions to all 17 SDGs..

 


 


        

The ITU Report ICTs, LDCs and the SDGs: Achieving universal and affordable Internet in the least developed countries highlights the opportunities that ICTs deliver to tackle development challenges in the most vulnerable countries in the world. 

 

 


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Sound Bite

"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and this is the most important problem we can focus on."

 
Mark Zuckerberg
Chairman & CEO, Facebook