 ITU, in partnership with the Digital Impact Alliance, has shaped a sustainable development digital investment framework for policymakers and donors investing in ICTs. The framework will help government and donors identify and fund more efficient and effective ICT investments and accelerate progress towards the attainment of sustainable development goals. The framework calls for a whole-of-government approach to take a 360-degree view of citizens needs to deploy common reusable ICT building blocks. Sets of ICT building blocks are common between different use cases within or across sectors. They can be deployed only once but used to deliver multiple services across different projects and sectors, improving cost-effectiveness and integration. The framework is a holistic cross-sector and cross-organization approach for digital investment which can be leveraged, by governments to put in place strategies to coordinate digital investments, by donors to adopt cross-sector digital investment strategies, by technology providers to research and develop ICT products that meet cross-sector requirements, and by stakeholders to integrate best practices for digital development. The framework can assist initiatives such as the Smart Villages Project, initiated by ANSI in Niger, to deploy and scale up a set of reusable and interoperable ICT building blocks to empower rural dwellers and help achieve the SDGs. Adopting the framework calls for a timely change of digital investment mindset and action in the service of the SDGs. Innovative uses of ICTs have the potential to propel government programs to far greater effectiveness and deliver on the SDG promise to transform our world by 2030.