they also involve a potential risk of exacerbating existing economic social and technological divides as countries with strong existing capabilities harness new technologies for development leaving others ever further behind applying technology to the challenges of achieving the sustainable development goals requires building local capacities and developing policies and an enabling environment as well as unprecedented resource mobilizatbn partnerships and multilateral global collaboration to a fund research and development rd that is relevant to the sustainable development goals b build networks c strengthen the global sciencepolicy interface d transfer technologies and e support the development of capabilities in developing countries current national and international efforts are seriously inadequate for this task