Bristol, England is the latest city to produce a Voluntary Local Review, just in time for the July 2019 High-level Political Forum and the presentation of the United Kingdom’s Voluntary National Review.
Read MoreSDSN TReNDS is launching a preview of the upcoming report Counting on the World to Act (September 2019), which details the radical transformations needed in modern statistical systems in order to support the world’s greatest needs.
Read MoreFour years on from the adoption of the SDGs, is the data revolution really happening? Jonathan Glennie takes stock.
Read MoreData on people, planet, and prosperity lags far behind what is needed to achieve the SDGs. Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data CEO Claire Melamed outlines a joint initiative on real-time data for the SDGs.
Read MoreTReNDS member Bram Govaerts is Director, Innovative Business Strategies & Representative Americas at Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT). Since 2007, Govaerts has led the Latin America Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification strategy at CIMMYT.
Read MoreThe June 2019 edition of the Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter includes news on a call to raise the ambition of the Sendai Framework, investments in ecosystem-based solutions for disaster prevention, and more.
Read MoreTReNDS co-chair Robert Chen is Director of CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, a research unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He manages the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), part of NASA’s network of Earth science data centers and a regular member of the World Data System of the International Science Council.
Read MoreTReNDS member Jeanne Holm is Deputy CIO and Senior Tech Advisor to the Mayor, City of Los Angeles, and a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA. As a leader in open data, education, and civic innovation, she empowers people to discover new knowledge and collaborate to improve life on Earth and beyond.
Read MoreTReNDS co-chair Laveesh Bhandari is an Indian data scientist and economist, author, columnist, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Director of Indicus Foundation where he is spearheading a range of activities on the environment.
Read MoreWhen national leadership on the SDGs is missing, local policymakers can and should step up–and they can do so with the help of data. Read our contributed piece for Apolitical here.
Read MoreThe May 2019 edition of the Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter includes news on WHO’s first guidelines on digital health interventions, data science competitions, the United States’ National Volcano Warning System, and more.
Read MoreWhat pathways will lead us to a new data ecosystem, capable of supporting achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? On April 30, TReNDS experts and partners shared their experiences and discussed common approaches at the event “Data for Sustainable Development: Building a New Data Ecosystem.”
Read MoreDeirdre Appel (Open Data Watch) shares key takeaways from the April 12, 2019 event “Resources for Data & Statistics: Transformative Opportunities,” a side event of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings.
Read MoreIn 2018, the Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI) launched a microgrant initiative to support learning from existing subnational SDG data initiatives, harnessing tacit local knowledge and informing a learning exchange. This post details the work of LDA-SI grantee Wolfs Company during the 2018-2019 grant period.
Read MoreA new synthesis report and project overviews document the data localization efforts of LDA-SI microgrant recipients in Aruba, Brazil, Colombia, England, India and the United States.
Read MoreThe April 2019 edition of the Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter includes news on free open data to aid in tackling El Niño, strengthening Mozambique’s resilience to natural disaster, and more.
Read MoreJonathan Glennie asks, Can we counter the data counter-revolution? From surveillance to data governance, he examines the delicate balance struck between data and power.
Read MoreThe POPGRID collaborative, managed by TReNDS, CIESIN, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, played host to representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Philippines, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a UN Statistical Commission side event. Read a recap here.
Read MoreA new research brief, written by Open Data Watch for TReNDS, addresses the complementary–and at times contradicting–pillars of openness and privacy in the realm of data sharing.
Read MoreThe March 2019 edition of the Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter includes information on the 50th UN Statistical Commission, news on Indonesia’s efforts to integrate flood forecasting into its meteorological early warning system, and more.
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