JAMSHORO: The Economic Cooperation Organisation’s Science Foundation (ECOSF), Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) and the Technology Times (TechTimes) signed an agreement to develop cooperation and collaboration to develop ICT-based solutions for achieving UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organisations together mutually agreed to organise software applications contest among ECO member countries titled “AppIdea2R” (Application Idea to Reality) to raise awareness or to monitor progress to attain the goals. The AppIdea2R contests will be conducted in the ECO member states to develop applications, be it for the web, a personal computer, a mobile handheld device, console, SMS, or any software platform broadly available to the public (solutions) related to one or more of the goals. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are among the ECO members. The apps submitted in the contest should address at least one of the 17 SDGs, either for awareness or to contribute to progress towards meeting the goals. ECOSF President Prof Dr Manzoor H Soomro, MUET Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mohammad Aslam Uqaili and Technology Times CEO Mustafa Z Paras signed the agreement at a ceremony in Karachi. The AppIdea2R’17 contest will be an open opportunity to the university students all over the ECO member states to get themselves involved in awareness raising and solution providing on the goals. Also to become the future ambassadors to promote and popularise SDGs, developing technologies to facilitate and monitor the progress on the goals, getting empowered with the skills and confidence to develop apps for sustainable development. This joint initiative will help the ECO member states to understand the key indicators of SDGs and play their role to achieve the goals.