Pursuing The Sustainable Development Goals Amid Global Change: Innovation-Driven And People-Focused Pathways

Abstract

In a time of increasing climate volatility and socio-economic disruption, in this study we focus on how innovation and humanized development can become part of a pathway to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It contends that technological innovation, in terms of such things as digital literacy and decentralized renewable energy, and data-centered governance should be aligned with ethical aspirations and human perspectives and not become a tool to build up and maintain systemic health because that is not sustainable. While digital transformation has not achieved a lot of efficiency in the way we are used to things we are able to do today, and digital transformation is also very good for the right reason; by the definition of digital transformation we are able to cut through the system, improve governance and put education and social justice at the core of our development of technology and sustainable development we are able to do good things. By using global, policy and practice as a conceptmatic way forward for progress against challenges, we have seen that to achieve a sustainable world, we need to develop both innovative tech in the space today at all levels but that are based on people, our culture itself must evolve and this makes it human and it will be so with the human element at the heart of decisions.