South–South and Triangular Cooperation towards the SDGs Agenda: Opportunities and challenges of technology transfer as a tool for sustainable development and overcoming inequalities
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The paper aims to contribute on the reflections about the need to encourage cooperation and technology transfer, as a relevant tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reducing South inequalities. Although the actions in this sense are not new, the challenges continue to exist and have been transformed in their form and complexity; requiring, therefore, new approaches and innovative answers.
Based on this, the work questioning about the possible actions to be taken by the countries, in particular the Latin American ones –because it is the most unequal region in the world–, to face these challenges.
Based on this questioning, a brief analysis is carried out with the objective of identify some of the current challenges and opportunities for compliance with the SDGs and the reduction of inequalities in the South.
Based on the aforementioned analysis, some proposals are outlined focusing on the use of new exponential technologies as a key and innovative tool to achieve these objectives, based on their capacity to increase impacts at reduced costs; allowing at the same time, the reduction of the North–South technological gap, which delays global development and, therefore, the possibility of the SDGs overcoming.
The hypothesis that guided the work is related to the need of provide innovative answers and promote different partnerships and cooperation projects that involve different modalities and actors of the International System in achieving the SDGs and reducing inequalities. Finally, based on the analysis, the work proposes the implementation of a horizontal international cooperation based on the use of exponential technologies to overcome the SDGs and reduce inequalities, which it is proposed to be named: Exponential Cooperation (ExCo).
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