ICAAD recently took part in the 2016 Global Dialogue with the UN Foundation on Financing the SDGs, Health in Humanitarian Settings, the Business Case for the SDGs, and Big Data for the SDGs. The Global Dialogue convened close to 120 leaders from the diplomatic community, UN leadership, think tanks, and the private sector.
Hansdeep Singh, Co-Founder, shared with thought leaders during the Big Data for SDGs session the importance of harnessing human rights data by taking qualitative reporting and converting it into actionable quantitative data. He gave an example of an ICAAD initiative that fuses data from two United Nations mechanisms to provide insight into the monitoring and implementation of sustainable goals for 193 countries. ICAAD has partnered with DataKind and Xerox to help build this initiative — stay tuned for more information!
United Nations Foundation’s ‘Global Dialogue’ event at the United Nations in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (Photo/Stuart Ramson for UN Foundation)
United Nations Foundation’s ‘Global Dialogue’ event at the United Nations in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (Photo/Stuart Ramson for UN Foundation)
More photos of the event are available here.