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<\/a><\/strong>SDG 9: Industries, Innovation, and Infrastructure<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\nHow did you get to school today? Walk? Bike? Bus? If you are lucky, you got there by taking paved roads and safe sidewalks. Not everyone in the world has access to the same efficient modes of transportation, some do not have safe roads leading to school or home \u2013 making it much harder to get from one place to another.<\/p>\n
Infrastructure, meaning roads, bridges, tunnels, water supplies, sewers, electric grids, internet and phone networks, are essential for people to access good education, jobs, healthcare, and sanitation. Three billion people worldwide do not have basic sanitation like toilets and three in 10 people do not have access to safe drinking water.<\/p>\n
Can you imagine life without the internet? 3.8 billion people do not have access to the internet, that is 80 percent of the population in least developed countries. Additionally, 18% of people do not have mobile networks to use cellphones.<\/p>\n
While major improvements are being made to infrastructure, providing roads, public transport, electricity, connectivity to the internet, and clean water and sanitation to people around the world, billions of people still live without good services.<\/p>\n
Our new reading list covers many of these topics and we hope the stories will inspire you to take action for all children to get to school safely and have access to infrastructure where they live.<\/p>\n
The SDG Book Club makes content available in the six official languages of the Â鶹APP – please see our other pages for more recommendations in Arabic<\/a>, Chinese<\/a>, French<\/a>, Russian<\/a> and Spanish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>