TReNDS member Dilek Fraisl works for the Center for Earth Observation and Citizen Science at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), while at the same time pursuing her PhD in Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna.
Read MoreIs real-time data for the SDGs possible in our time? Join TReNDS and the Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data in identifying indicators with the most timely data for sustainable development.
Read MoreThe February 2019 edition of the Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter includes a call for contributions for TReNDS’ Contracts for Data Collaboration project, how to derive value from geospatial information, and more.
Read MoreTReNDS member Virginia Murray is the Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England, as well as a co-chair or member of various disaster risk management committees and research networks.
Read MoreTReNDS, the GovLab at New York University, University of Washington’s Information Risk Research Initiative, and the World Economic Forum are joining forces to create an online library of data sharing agreements.
Read MoreTReNDS member Tom Moultrie is an academic demographer whose recent work has focused on assessing and enhancing the quality of public data - particularly censuses - in developing countries to improve the evidence base for measuring and monitoring progress towards meeting the SDGs.
Read MoreTReNDS member Samantha Custer leads AidData’s efforts to produce rigorous analysis of official finance investments worldwide, conduct performance assessments of the development cooperation activities of governments and international organizations, and more.
Read MoreThe December 2018/January 2019 edition of the Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter covers big data strategies to address social need, the World Bank Open Data Toolkit, and more.
Read MoreTReNDS member Jonathan Glennie is a writer and researcher on poverty and human rights, looking at the changing nature of development cooperation as global paradigms and relationships evolve.
Read MoreTReNDS signs memorandum of understanding with the UAE’s Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority during the UN World Data Forum 2018.
Read MoreFor the 2018-2019 LDA-SI microgrant program, the City of Los Angeles is partnering with local academic institutions to strategically incorporate the SDGs into its plans, projects, partnerships, and budgets
Read MoreMovimento Nossa BH, 2018-2019 LDA-SI grantee and civil society organization supporting the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region, is piloting the collection and analysis of data for metropolitan planning.
Read MoreMuch like the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative does at a global scale, the OpenCities Institute is embedding know-how, tools, and capacity for the use of city-level data by sub-national governments in India, with the goal of facilitating evidence-based solutions for the SDGs.
Read MoreIn Colombia, 2018-2019 LDA-SI grantee Red de Ciudades Cómo Vamos is developing a tool to compare SDG achievement across 36 municipalities.
Read MoreFor the 2018-2019 LDA-SI microgrant program, Wolfs Company is building on its work to take stock of Aruba’s land and marine socioeconomic and ecological factors.
Read MoreLDA-SI has launched a micro-grant initiative aiming to seed and support local data innovations in these four areas, and to promote the dissemination of lessons from these experiences to inform sub-national SDG data efforts worldwide.
Read MoreDuring 2018, LDA-SI will provide a limited number of micro grants as part of its objective to promote sound, replicable technical methods for sub-national SDG monitoring that facilitate local action in support of the “leave no one behind” principle (LNOB).
Read MoreStanford University’s Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative worked with SDSN and a variety of local stakeholders in the California Bay Area, including the City of San José and the City and County of San Francisco, to develop a local reporting platform, a data dashboard, and a marketplace of decision-making tools that could support and inform SDG achievement efforts.
Read MoreThe Thematic Network on Data for Sustainable Development is pleased to congratulate the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data on its newly named Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Group. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed, a member of SDSN’s Leadership Council, will serve as the Honorary Chair of the Board.
Read MoreOn September 28, 2015, a new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data was officially launched on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Partnership brings together governments, private companies, academia, scientists and civil society in support of data-driven decision-making, by catalyzing more open, new and usable data to help end extreme poverty, combat climate change and promote inclusive growth.
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