Since 2016, TReNDS expert Steven Ramage has been leading global stakeholder engagement and external relations for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental partnership promoting the value and usefulness of Earth observations (EO) for research, policy, decisions and action.
Read MoreIn 2018 and early 2019, SDSN’s Local Data Action Solutions Initiative (LDA-SI) supported organizations around the world in localizing SDG monitoring. Since the conclusion of the grants, some participants have seen their work take on new heights and dovetail with other efforts to localize the SDGs, while other participants have been challenged by difficult political climates and other factors.
Read MoreTReNDS member Philipp Schönrock is the Director of Cepei, an independent think tank that he founded in 2003. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Programme Committee of the UN World Data Forum.
Read MoreTReNDS co-chair Shaida Badiee is the Managing Director for Open Data Watch. She brings several decades of experience in managing global development statistics as the long-time Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group.
Read MoreThe City of Los Angeles, a Local Data Action Solutions Initiative grantee, has presented its Voluntary Local Review at the July 2019 High-level Political Forum. Learn more about their work on localizing the SDGs here.
Read MoreTReNDS member Molly Jahn is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she holds appointments in the Department of Agronomy, the Global Health Institute and the Nelson Institute, having served as the 12th Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Director of the Wisconsin Experiment Station.
Read MoreOn the sidelines of the July 2019 High-level Political Forum, TReNDS co-hosted multiple events on the future of modern statistical systems. Read brief synopses here.
Read MoreBristol, 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 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 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 MoreTReNDS 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 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 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 MoreAt the close of 2018, we look back at successes from the past year and ahead to the adventures of 2019.
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