The Youth Commission ​achieves the following objectives:

​

• Engage young practitioners in formal science-policy avenues within the UN system

• Share perspectives on the role of data, science-policy, technology, engineering, & innovation for achieving the SDGs

• Identify challenges and solutions towards implementation of the SDGs under review in 2017 (SDGs 6,7,11,12,15, 17)

• Explore the role of ICTs, tech transfer, science communication, IP rights, innovation policy, and other cross-cutting topics

• Map implementation frameworks across different sustainable development agendas to promote coherence

• Discuss implications of ST&I and data from different contexts - humanitarian, territorial (urban/rural), disaster reduction, climate change

​

The open-and-inclusive nature of the UN MGCY will be used to  engage young practitioners from diverse academic, formal/informal knowledge systems, and regions in order to develop comprehensive deliverables on the positions youth have on the role of science, technology, and innovation in informing the implementation, follow-up, and review of the SDGs, as well as ways to strengthen the nexus between data, science, technology, policy, and society. 

​

This initiative is open to all youth organization and young practitioners interested in providing contributions. It is coordinated by the UN MGCY Youth Science-Policy Interface Platform.