IEEE IHTC 2025 topics are based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and include (but are not limited to) the following:

  1. Technological Innovations for Sustainable Communities

  • Technologies for poverty alleviation, ending hunger, achieving food security, and promoting sustainable agriculture (SDG 1, 2).
  • Technologies for effective management of refugees, sustainable (re)settlements, and integration.
  • Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable (SDG 11).

  1. Advancing Health, Education, and Well-Being

  • Technologies for ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages (SDG 3).
  • Technologies to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (SDG 4).
  • Humanitarian and sustainable engineering programs, educational technologies, course material, curricula (SDG 4).
  • Ethical, societal, privacy, and security considerations in co-design, implementation, and deployment of Sustainable Development, ICT4D, and Humanitarian Technologies.

  1. Energy, Water, and Climate Solutions

  • Technologies to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all (SDG 6).
  • Technologies to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all (SDG 7).
  • Technologies to combat climate change and its impacts (SDG 13).
  • Technologies to specifically assist in disaster mitigation, management, relief, and recovery.

  1. Ethical and Holistic Approaches to SDG Implementation

  • Ethical, societal, privacy, and security considerations in co-design, implementation, and deployment of Sustainable Development, ICT4D, and Humanitarian Technologies.
  • Community engagement; social and economic factors in humanitarian engineering.

  1. Emerging Topics in Sustainable Technology and Innovation

  • Supporting implementation of other SDGs.
  • Emerging challenges and opportunities; transformative solutions advancing the sustainable development agenda.
  • Innovative multidisciplinary approaches related to sustainability, resilience, or humanitarian technologies.
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