  In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the 2030
Development Agenda, which has included 92 paragraphs, and the Paragraph 91
defined 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. The
goal of this paper is to discover the correlations among SDGs and information
and communications technologies (ICTs). This paper discusses the roles and
opportunities that ICTs play in pursuing the SDGs. We identify a number of
research gaps to those three pillars, social, economic, and environmental
perspectives, of sustainable development. After extensive literature reviews on
the SDG-related research initiatives and activities, we find that the majority
of contributions to SDGs recognized by the IEEE and ACM research communities
have mainly focused on the technical aspects, while there are lack of the
holistic social good perspectives. Therefore, there are essential and urgent
needs to raise the awareness and call for attentions on how to innovate and
energize ICTs in order to best assist all nations to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
