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ICT4D and the Sustainable Development Goals: a road well-traveled

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  • Annika Andersson
  • Mathias Hatakka

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Some 35 years after the United Nations published its Brundtland report [Brundtland Commission. (1987). Our common future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Geneva, UN-Dokument A/42/427. Retrieved December 24, 2022, from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf] on the many threats our planet is under due to over- and underdevelopment, we are still struggling with how to make our world sustainable. Today we have the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) to guide us, but they have been largely criticized just like their predecessors. The debate in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) mainly concerns to which extent Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) may contribute to the SDGs. This editorial offers a historic overview of the different development goals that the UN has offered and eight papers that offer a view into the discussion of the challenges facing the SDGs, but also examples of experimental strategies on how ICTs can be used in realizing, or undermining, these goals.

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  • Annika Andersson & Mathias Hatakka, 2023. "ICT4D and the Sustainable Development Goals: a road well-traveled," Information Technology for Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 1-8, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:29:y:2023:i:1:p:1-8
    DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2166279
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