Target 17.8: Technology bank for least developed countries
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology
This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
Why shareholder democracy is independent
The UN Technology Bank, launched in 2018 and based in Gebze, Türkiye, is a UN body serving the 44 least developed countries. It states that it works alongside governments, the private sector and research institutions, but its operation does not depend on corporate conduct. No shareholder resolution or corporate lobbying relating to the Technology Bank is on record, and no corporate or lobbying lever exists for this target.
How this was scoredIndependent
Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
No shareholder advocacy found yet
We looked and found nothing that met our standard, which is a source we opened and confirmed. The UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries is a UN body funded and governed intergovernmentally. No ownership-based advocacy located.
How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is UN Sustainable Development Goals's, and we link to their original.
How we score dependency, in full.