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May 25, 2022

Dataset Deep-dive: Data for Good at Meta’s Relative Wealth Index

This webinar provides an overview of datasets from Meta, which are publicly available on HDX, and a deep dive on the new Relative Wealth Index, a series of AI-powered poverty maps available for nearly 100 low and middle-income countries.
SDG 01: No Poverty
May 25, 2022

Innovation to Accelerate Progress for Women and Girls

The high-level roundtable offered a platform for a dialogue on innovative ways to remove the barriers between women and girls and their rights and choices.
SDG 05: Gender Equality
May 25, 2022

Learning from Experience to Increase Forest Data Transparency for Climate Action

This webinar highlights approaches to use data to increase transparency of reporting in the forest sector.
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 15: Life on Land
May 25, 2022

Accelerating Agricultural Digital Transformation through AI and IoT

This webinar explored various aspects of leveraging AI and IoT in accelerating digital transformation for agricultural production processes, and examined the current standardization terrain related to the agricultural sphere.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022

The UNconnected Podcast

The podcast discussions focus on global collaboration to connect the 2.9 billion people that remain unconnected, to achieve sustainable socio-economic development for all.
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May 25, 2022

Benchmarking Africa's Industrialisation - Achieving SDG9 with enhancement of industrial capabilities

The session launches the latest Competitive Industrial Performance Report for Africa and introduces the SDG9 industry tracker to show how to measure the progress in SDG9.
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May 25, 2022

UNDP's Digital Strategy & Transformation - Towards #nextGenUNDP

UNDP's Chief Digital Officer and his team present UNDP’s Digital Strategy and key implementation initiatives such as the Digital Advocates Network, the UNDP Data Strategy and Digital X, a digital innovation scaling accelerator.
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May 25, 2022

Using the UN Biodiversity Lab 2.0 for Action on Nature, Climate and Sustainable Development (Part of the UNEP Digital Discovery Series)

This session provides a training on the UN Biodiversity Lab, a platform that provides stakeholders with global spatial data and analytics to support action for people and planet.
SDG 15: Life on Land
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022

Can Big Data help us understand the Future of Work?

This podcast investigates the possibilities of using big data to analyse ongoing work trends in both developed and developing economies as a means of anticipating future work needs.
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May 25, 2022

Global Data Pledge Launch – A foundation for tomorrow

We aim to propose an international Pledge on global data resources opened to contributions from national governments, institutions and private organizations alike, the Pledge calls for establishing a multilateral system for data resources sharing that includes global rules for access and standards to maximize the impact and benefits of sharing of those data assets at scale.
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May 25, 2022

What could the future of agriculture look like?

Learn more about agricultural technology – from vertical farming to agricultural apps to farm drones – which is growing and becoming the new normal.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
May 2, 2022

Innovation Matters

This podcast series explores how innovation, or experimentation with ideas to create value, is changing our world and could drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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June 7, 2021

New Technologies & Innovations for Ocean Conservation (WSIS TalkX)

This event highlighted examples of innovative initiatives using ICTs to protect oceans, overcome challenges and strengthen efforts to achieve SDG14 – Life below water.
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May 21, 2021

ICTs for Biological Diversity

This session highlighted innovative initiatives using ICTs for biodiversity conservation and how they can help overcome challenges and strengthen efforts to mobilize, create and drive solutions to achieve SDG 15.
SDG 15: Life on Land
March 3, 2021

ICTs for Wildlife Conservation (WSIS TalkX, Part 2)

The event explored the positive impact of digital technologies for wildlife protection, including satellite images, computer algorithms, the Internet of Things and the Cloud.
SDG 15: Life on Land
June 10, 2020

Supply Chain Innovation - A Private Sector Persective

This webinar explores how supply chains are changing due to the disruptive forces of technology, sustainability and geopolitical risk; and how they are reacting to COVID-19.
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