WHAT
Data Innovations and Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations for Smart Cities: Case Studies from Across the Globe (TA2.03)
WHERE
Online
WHEN
Wednesday, April 26th from 10:45 – 11:45 AM Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China / Tuesday, April 25th from 10:45 - 11:45 PM EST
About the Event
Side Event of the 2023 United Nations World Data Forum
Overview
‘Smart Cities’ have been leading on innovation to improve civic outcomes for decades, and this has especially rung true throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being especially vulnerable to the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, thousands of cities and sub-national government leaders have leveraged new data sources, technologies, and methods to improve policies, decision-making, and service delivery for their citizens in response to COVID and a myriad of other critical global crises, including climate change, food and housing insecurity, and the economy. As part of these efforts, a number of cities and municipalities around the world have recently instituted a Chief Data Officer (CDO) position to improve their data stewardship for better service delivery and policymaking. And these individuals have proven instrumental in expanding and improving the use and stewardship of data in government. As demonstrated by recent research conducted by SDSN TReNDS and its members as part of the United Nations Statistics Commission’s Working Group on Data Stewardship, there is much that National Statistics Offices (NSOs) can learn from the experiences of sub-national and city-level data leaders on how they are leveraging data for decision-making and the partnerships they have undertaken to support and optimize a data-driven culture throughout their governments. The objective of this proposed session is to showcase innovative multi-governmental collaborations at the city and sub-national levels for advancing data stewardship and share best practices on maximizing the use of data for decision-making to inform actions at the national-level. We aim for the session to be modeled in the TED-talk format, consisting of a series of 4- 5 short lightning talks from city and municipal data leaders on a variety of global challenges, followed by a moderated audience Q & A. The issues and key takeaways from this session will be discussed further at an open working meeting organized by SDSN TReNDS and Zhejiang University on the margins of the UN World Data Forum.
Speakers
Castelline Tillus (Speaker) Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) TReNDS, Research Manager
Jingsong Tang (Speaker) Big Data Center, China Mobile Communication Group Zhejiang Co., LTD, Director
Sandile Mbatha (Speaker) eThekwini Municipality, Senior Manager, Research and Policy
Weiwen Zhang (Speaker) Zhejiang University, Professor
Ahlam Alrousan (Speaker) Kingdom of Jordan, Department of Statistics, Director of IT