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 (R&D) that is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals, (b) build networks, (c) strengthen the global science-policy 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.