ICTs and the Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals

ICTs and the Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals

Martin George Wynn, Peter Jones
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/IJSESD.290325
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Abstract

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are universally seen to be global in their nature and reach, but there is a growing acceptance that they have an important local dimension. At the same time, there is an increasing recognition of the need for appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support and monitor the SDGs. This article adopts a qualitative inductive research approach in examining a range of public authority and academic source material, and framework analysis is used to record, categorise and critique this material. The findings provide an overview of the role of the SDGs at the local level and an assessment of how the localisation of the SDGs is being addressed in some urban areas within Western Europe. The findings also indicate how ICTs are being deployed to support the localisation process in Western Europe and the wider world. This is followed by a discussion of some emergent issues related to the localisation of the SDGs, including the increasingly important role of ICTs.
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Research Methodology

The research methodology was based on an inductive, qualitative approach, focusing on an extensive review of existing academic literature and local authority and public sector reports. This adopted some of the principles and procedures of a bibliometric review (de-Miguel-Molina et al., 2015), which can be seen as a method broadly used “to draw the big picture in a literature review” (p.1). It starts with the definition of basic questions to be answered in the literature review (Börner & Polley, 2014). In the context of this research, these included the following questions:

Where, in Western Europe, are local authorities specifically addressing the SDGs, and which SDGs are being implemented?

Which technologies are being deployed to support the localisation of SDGs?

What differences are there in the use of ICTs between developed and developing world environments as regards the SDGs?

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