Conceptual software infrastructure for sustainable development

Sustainable development has reached a certain discussive maturity in the field of sociological, economic, ecological and environmental realms. However, today, there seems to be a gap between the variety of work in environmental, economic and sociological research for sustainable development and technology research used to support the same causes. Technologies still have not been used to contribute enough to sustainable development, particularly as they lack dynamic mechanisms for providing communities in a global context with decision-making systems that could help users to deal autonomously with daily problems they face in their environment. Thematically, this paper proposes a generic software infrastructure where different aspects of sustainable development, i.e. social, economic, ecological, and environmental, etc. could be integrated for sustainable development.