UN Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Official target: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. By 2030, significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the internet in least developed countries.
Innovation That Serves People First
SDG 9 is about more than building roads and factories. It is about ensuring that the infrastructure of the modern economy — digital networks, financial systems, communication platforms — is accessible to everyone, not just those who already live in connected, wealthy societies. Sentinel Watch was built with that principle at its core.
A Platform Built on Accessible Technology
Sentinel Watch® is designed to make participation straightforward, using an everyday smartphone rather than specialist equipment. The watcher experience focuses on clear tasks and an accessible interface, helping people contribute without needing advanced technical knowledge.
Our technology supports a practical goal: connecting watchers with monitoring opportunities while keeping the platform efficient as it grows. Watching live video requires a reliable internet connection, and data usage should be considered when using a mobile plan.
Accessible technology is only one part of participation. Watchers must also meet applicable eligibility and verification requirements. Payout options vary by country, starting with PromptPay in Thailand, so watchers should check availability before they begin contributing.
Global Ambition. Locally Grounded Payouts.
Earning opportunities are only useful when people understand how they can receive and use their rewards. Sentinel Watch is introducing payout options country by country, starting with PromptPay in Thailand. This approach lets us build around local payment systems and applicable requirements rather than promise a single solution that works everywhere.
Watchers earn Sentinos, tracked in their Sentinel Watch account, which they can accumulate, donate to support our mission, or request to receive as a payout where a supported option is available. Participation and payouts are subject to eligibility, verification and applicable requirements. Where payouts are not yet supported, we make that limitation clear: contributing does not guarantee that a payout option will become available in a watcher’s country.
A Novel Industry Model
Sentinel Watch introduces a new category of industry: crowd-sourced physical security monitoring, powered by a global attention economy. This is not an incremental improvement on existing security models. It is a fundamentally different approach — one that distributes the economic value of security monitoring to a global workforce of participating individuals, rather than concentrating it in the hands of large security corporations.
The platform’s Sentino economy — where camera owners compete for watcher attention through rates and event bounties — creates a self-regulating marketplace that does not require centralised management to function. This is a genuine innovation in how marketplaces can be structured to produce fair, distributed outcomes.
Open to ML Partnerships
In a later stage of development, Sentinel Watch will open its platform data to machine learning service providers. Human attention data collected from verified, engaged watchers across diverse global demographics represents a uniquely valuable training resource for computer vision and behavioural AI models. This data layer will create an additional revenue stream that further strengthens the platform’s financial sustainability — without compromising watcher privacy or platform integrity.
Our Commitment
Sentinel Watch believes that the most powerful innovations are those that make participation in the modern economy easier for the people who have historically been excluded from it. Every technical decision we make is evaluated against that standard. We are not building technology for its own sake. We are building infrastructure that works for the 3 billion people the global economy has yet to adequately serve.
Further Reading & References
The following sources inform and support the claims made on this page:
- UN SDG 9 Progress Report 2025 — Official United Nations progress tracking on industry, innovation and infrastructure targets.
- GSMA — The Mobile Economy — Annual report on global mobile adoption, smartphone penetration, and the mobile internet economy.
