Modeling the Role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in the Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The implementation of the global goals described in the UN 2030 Agenda requires an interdisciplinary approach in applying science, technology, and innovation (STI). Annual collaborative multi-stakeholder STI Forum elaborates and highlights the opportunities and challenges for exploiting the contribution of STI by sharing of knowledge, information, and experiences at different levels.

In this study, we focus on the theme of the STI Forum 2019: "STI for ensuring inclusiveness and equality" with an emphasis on SDGs 4, 8, 10, 13, and 16, and develop the STI Ontology that represents the cooperative relationships among science, technology and innovation for implementing the UNSDGs. This STI knowledge model explicitly represents the details of SDGs 4 (education), 8 (economic growth), 10 (inequality), 13 (climate change), and 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) and their relevant targets in OWL.

The STI ontology is developed to facilitate the engagement of multi-stakeholders to ensure sustained economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection through the STI data. The STI data can be stored in the STI knowledge base that instantiates the ontology and presented back to the stakeholders through a web interface.