The Global Goals: 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

 

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

 

Professor Stephen Hawking is supporting goal 9, as shown in the photograph below.

 

This goal sets to:

• Develop sustainable and resilient infrastructure to support economic development and human well-being
• Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and raise significantly the industry’s share of employment and GDP in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
• Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises to financial services including affordable credit and their integration into value chains and markets
• Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes
• Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, including by encouraging innovation and increasing the number of R&D workers per one million people by x% and public and private R&D spending
• Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries
• Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries
• Significantly increase access to ICT and strive to provide universal and affordable access to internet in least developed countries by 2020

 

I'm sure this goal will get a lot of support. Will you be choosing to promote goal 9?