GovTech Companies’ Contribution to SDGs: Exploring Reporting and Communication Practices

The UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals which it proposes and seeks to attain have vast ramifications and potential in their implementation but a continuing problem is the progress and measurement of them. Government Technology (GovTech) companies in many ways can help governments make steps towards some of the SDGs but the ways through which the national governments manage and measure the SDGs are not the same way that the GovTech companies do the same thing. This study seeks to analyse the ways that GovTech startups and small and medium enterprises communicate their contributions to the SDGs and compare it to the ways the governments measure the same thing. The methodology employed is qualitative methods with the use of secondary data and document analysis. The authors provided an overview of a number of communication channels and tactics of GovTech companies and how they compare with national reports as well as recommendations for companies seeking to improve profitability and have an impact upon their society through sustainability.