Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Industries, Innovation & Infrastructure


Goal 9 seeks to build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Economic growth, social development and climate action are heavily dependent on investments in infrastructure, sustainable industrial development and technological progress. In the face of a rapidly changing global economic landscape and increasing inequalities, sustained growth must include industrialization that first of all, makes opportunities accessible to all people, and second, is supported by innovation and resilient infrastructure.

Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, global manufacturing – considered an engine of overall economic growth – has been steadily declining due to tariffs and trade tensions. The manufacturing decline caused by the pandemic has further caused serious impacts on the global economy.

This is primarily due to high inflation, energy price shocks, persistent disruptions in the supply of raw materials and intermediate goods, and global economic deceleration.

While LDCs in Asia have made considerable progress, African LDCs would need to change the current trajectory and accelerate progress significantly to attain the target by 2030. However, medium-high and high-technology industries demonstrated robust growth rates.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Sociedad Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia

ESOCITE 2006 Mexico City Mexico D

Sociedad Latinoamericana de Tecnologia del Caucho

SLTC 1996 Buenos Aires Argentina D

Sociedad Panamericana de Trauma

SPT 1986 Richmond VA USA D

Societas Internationalis de Diagnostica Ultrasonica in Ophthalmologia

SIDUO 1964 Clermont-Ferrand France C v

Societas Physiologiae Plantarum Scandinavica

SPPS 1947 Umeå Sweden D v

Société européenne pour la formation des ingénieurs

SEFI 1973 Brussels Belgium D y

Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights

SCAPR 2001 Brussels Belgium E

Society for Experimental Biology

SEB Lancaster UK G

Society for Experimental Mechanics

SEM 1943 Bethel CT USA G v

Society for Free Radical Research Asia

SFRR ASIA 1995 Kyoto Japan D

Society for Imaging Science and Technology

IS&T 1947 Springfield VA USA D

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

SIAM 1952 Philadelphia PA USA G

Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening

SLAS 2010 St Charles IL USA G

Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

SLSA 1985 Atlanta GA USA G

Society for Participatory Research in Asia

PRIA 1982 Delhi India G

Society for Philosophy and Technology

SPT 1976 College Station TX USA D v

Society for Progress and Innovation in the Near East

SPINE 2008 D

Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions

SRISTI 1993 Ahmedabad India G

Society for Satellite Professionals International

SSPI 1983 New York NY USA G tv

Society for Social Studies of Science

4S 1975 Falls Church VA USA D

Society for Standards Professionals

SES 1947 McLean VA USA G vt

Society for Text and Discourse

Tempe AZ USA N

Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering

SAMPE 1944 C

Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World

SASTA 2011 San Diego CA USA G

Society for the History of Technology

SHOT 1958 Eindhoven Netherlands C

Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings

SPECIES 2014 C

Society for Underwater Technology

SUT 1966 London UK F

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

SWIFT 1973 La Hulpe Belgium F e

Society of Allied Weight Engineers

SAWE 1939 Melbourne Beach FL USA N

Society of Chemical Industry

SCI 1881 London UK G t

Society of Construction Law for Africa

SCLA 2013 Cape Town South Africa J

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe

SETAC Europe 1989 Brussels Belgium E

Society of Fire Protection Engineers

SFPE 1950 Gaithersburg MD USA G

Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators

SIGTTO 1979 London UK C v

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SMPTE 1916 White Plains NY USA G v

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

SNAME 1893 Alexandria VA USA G v

Society of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

SOI Daegu Korea Rep G

Society of Petroleum Engineers

SPE 1985 Richardson TX USA F v

Society of Photo-Technologists

SPT 1959 Cheney WA USA G

Society of Plastics Engineers

SPE 1942 Danbury CT USA G v

Society of St Paul

1914 Rome Italy R

Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers

STLE 1944 Park Ridge IL USA C

Society of Women Engineers

SWE Chicago IL USA G

Socio-Gerontechnology Network

F

Software and Information Industry Association

SIIA 1999 Washington DC USA G t

Software Engineering Institute

SEI Pittsburgh PA USA N j

Solar Cookers International

SCI 1987 Sacramento CA USA F

Solar Heat Europe

ESTIF 1992 Brussels Belgium D t

SolarPower Europe

1985 Brussels Belgium D

SOLE - The International Society of Logistics

1966 Laurel MD USA F

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