The document discusses the role of the internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in sustainable development. It outlines how ICTs can help address sustainability challenges in several areas: ICTs can increase agricultural crop yields by 30% and generate over $11 trillion in economic benefits annually by 2030. ICTs also enable a 20% reduction in global CO2 emissions and connect an additional 2.5 billion people to the digital economy. Specific digital solutions like smart agriculture, e-health, e-learning, and connectivity can help achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 by increasing crop yields by over 900 kg/ha, giving 1.6 billion people access to health services, providing

1. Role of the Internet in
Sustainable Development
Dr. Fereidoun Ghasemzadeh, SUTA Reunion 2016,Washington DC

2. Development that meets
the needs of current generation
without compromising future generations needs

3. Sustainable DevelopmentDimensions
Environmen
tal
EconomicalSocial

6. ICTSolutionsfor21stCenturyChallenges
ICT increases agricultural crop yields by 30%
By 2030,
ICT generates over $11 trillion in economic
benefits per year

7. ICTSolutionsfor21stCenturyChallenges
ICT enable a 20% reduction of global
CO2 emissions
ICT will connect 2.5 billion extra people
to the “knowledge economy”
By 2030,

8. ICTSolutionsfor21stCenturyChallenges
Digital Economy growth accelerates new
disruptive business models
By 2030,

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13. Connectivity
Fixed/Mobile access to Internet
Increases access to opportunities to break out of poverty
One Third fewer people living on less than $1.25 per day from
extended Internet access
Impact
DigitalSolution
Sustainable DevelopmentGoals:NoPoverty

14. SMART AGRICULTURE
Optimized farm management and automated irrigation systems
Precision agriculture, include M2M / IoT, soil sensors
Satellites Integrated real-time weather information
Increases agricultural productivity while reducing the need for
scarce inputs such as water
Crop yield increase of >900 kg/ha in 2030
Sustainable DevelopmentGoals:NoHunger
DigitalSolution
Impact

15. Sustainable DevelopmentGoals:GoodHealth
E-HEALTH
Remote diagnostics videoconferencing
Electronic data storage
Biosensors
Makes health more accessible and affordable
1.6 billion people with access to e-health services in 2030
DigitalSolution
Impact

16. Sustainable DevelopmentGoals:QualityEducation
E-LEARNING
Videoconferencing
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
Gamification
Makes education more accessible, affordable and higher quality
450 million e-learning degrees in 2030
DigitalSolution
Impact

17. Digital Solution Impact
SMART AGRICULTURE
 Optimized farm management and automated irrigation
systems
 Precision agriculture, include M2M / IoT, soil sensors
 Satellites Integrated real-time weather information
 Traceability and tracking systems
Increases agricultural productivity while reducing the need for scarce
inputs such as water
Crop yield increase of >900 kg/ha in 2030
E-HEALTH
 Remote diagnostics videoconferencing
 Electronic data storage,
 Augmented reality,
 Wearables
 Biosensors
 Personalized medicine
 DNA sequencing
Makes health more accessible and affordable, and enables better
quality
1.6 billion people with access to e-health services in 2030
CONNECTIVITY
 Fixed and/or mobile access to telephony and Internet
Increases access to opportunities to break out of poverty and improve
economic participation
One Third fewer people living on less than $1.25 per day from
extended Internet access
Sustainable DevelopmentGoals

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E-LEARNING
 Videoconferencing
 Advanced data analytics
 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
 Open community platforms
 Augmented reality
 Gamification
 Voice recognition software
Makes education more accessible, affordable and higher quality
450 million e-learning degrees in 2030 [1]
CONNECTIVITY
 Fixed and/or mobile access to telephony and
Internet
Empowers women to participate in economic activities and thereby
improve their status
US$13-$18 billion additional combined annual GDP for 600,000
women in developing countries from an increase in Internet access
[2]
SMART WATER MANAGEMENT
 Smart pipes
 Smart levees
 Smart meters,
 Soil sensors,
 Remote irrigation management systems,
 Rain water harvesting systems,
 Consumption control apps,
 E-billing
Improves water use efficiency and helps increasing access to water
Up to 15 per cent water consumption reduction [3]
Digital Solution Impact

19. Sustainable DevelopmentGoals
SMART ENERGY
 Smart grid
 Smart appliances
 Energy storage
 Predictive analytics
 Sensors
 Demand response technology
Improves energy efficiency and access to more affordable energy and
supports to increase share of renewable energies in energy mix
>1.3 billion MWh savings in 2030 [1]
CONNECTIVITY
 (See explanation in SDG 5)
E-WORK
 Augmented reality,
 Cloud-based platforms (e.g. “platform as a
service“),
 Telecommuting,
 Virtual business meetings
ALL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
Boosts growth and helps decoupling it from resource-consumption
 Up to 1.38 per cent GDP growth from 10 per cent increase in
broadband penetration [2]
 70 per cent cut in oil consumption in 2030 compared to today
from all digital solutions examined [3]
SMART MANUFACTURING
 IoT and M2M
 3-D printing
 Cyber-physical systems (CPS)
 Data analytics & cloud computing
 Drones & Robotics
Boosts efficient and innovative supply, production and delivery of
Goods
Digital Solution Impact

20. Sustainable DevelopmentGoals
SMART LOGISTICS
 IoT/connected vehicles
 Load units
 Products and machines
 Augmented reality and wearable technologies
 Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
Digital warehouses;
 Optimized fleet and route management
US$982 billion economic benefits to industries from smart
manufacturing and smart logistics [1]
CONNECTIVITY
 Fixed and/or mobile access to telephony and
Internet
Improves access to more affordable participation
2.5 Billion additional people can be connected in 2030 mainly in
developing regions and LDCs [2]
SMART CITY MOBILITY
 Mobile ride sharing
 E-mobility
 Driverless transportation,
 Connected infrastructure/IoT
SMART BUILDING
 Alarm management and automation
 Big data analytics and energy management
 Smart metering
 IoT/sensors
 Detection and diagnosis technologies
Reduces resource consumption, improves energy efficiency and
reduces air pollution
around a 5 per cent CO₂ emissions savings in 2030 from
smart building and smart city mobility alone [3]
Digital Solution Impact

21. Sustainable DevelopmentGoals
SMART MANUFACTURING
 Industrial IoT and M2M
 3-D printing
 Cyber-physical systems (CPS)
 Data analytics & cloud computing
 Drones & robotics
SMART AGRICULTURE
 Optimized farm management
 Automated irrigation systems
 Precision agriculture, include M2M/ IoT
 Soil sensors
 Integrated real-time weather information;
 Traceability and tracking systems
Improves production and consumption patterns, enabling the
transformation to the circular economy
20 percent food waste savings in 2030 from smart agriculture [1]
ALL DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
Enables greenhouse gas emissions reduction and drives market
transformation for renewables
around 20 per cent of global CO₂ emissions can be saved in 2030 [2]
SMART CONSERVATION
 Advanced mapping and data analytics,
 Sub-marine.
 Coastal and inland smart sensors,
 Real time satellite imaging,
 Real-time weather forecasting
Improves protection of oceans and water quality
32 per cent of the world’s coastal areas could already benefit from
smart conservation solutions [3]
Digital Solution Impact

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SMART AGRICULTURE
(See explanation in SDG 12)
SMART CONSERVATION
(See explanation in SDG 14)
Improves protection of nature reserves on land and resource-use
Efficiency
251 trillion liters of water saved in 2030, from smart agriculture [1]
E-GOVERNMENT AND SMART POLICE
 Big data analytics
 Open government (datasets, public apps
using open data)
 E-identity
 Online voting
 Predictive analytics and algorithms for
crime forecasting
 Augmented reality
 Robotics
 Neuroscience
Reduces crime and enables better participation and transparency,
strengthening people's democratic rights
In Mozambique, SMS messages allowed citizens to report electoral
irregularities and increased voter turnout by 5 percentage points [2]
Digital Solution Impact

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