Among the many technological innovations that contribute to the sustainable development goal dedicated to industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9), agent-based modeling and IoT-based crowdsourcing methods appear as promising approaches to, on the one hand, enable scientists and stakeholders to virtually explore the sustainability of different pathways in the management of complex socio-environmental systems and, on the other hand, empower stakeholders so that they themselves can monitor the progress of the chosen pathways.