Steering processes:
Core Processes:
Supporting Processes:
Steering process: Policy and Institutional Environment
Steering Process: Financing for Development Data
Steering Process: Quality and Standards/ Legal Framework
Core Process: Coordination
Core Process: Alternative Data
- Geospatial Data
Earth Observation (EO) Data
EO Data Sources/Infrastructure
MODIS
Open Data Cube
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
Digital Earth Africa
Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC)
NASA’s Earth Observing Systems Data and Information Systems (EOSDIS)
ESA Earth Online
Google Earth Engine
Population/Human Settlements Related
GRID3
POPGRID
WorldPop
Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
GEO Human Planet Initiative
Agriculture and Water-Related
FAO’s AQUASTAT
GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM)
Trends.Earth
Global Fishing Watch
EO Capacity Building Resources
GeoforAll
Group on Earth Observations Inventory of Resources
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
Open Mapping for SDGs: A practical guide to launching and growing open mapping initiatives at the national and local levels
Crowdsourced Geographic Information Use in Government
Open Data for Resilience Initiative: Planning an Open Cities Mapping Project
- Citizen-Generated Data (CGD)
Choosing and Engaging with Citizen-Generated Data – A guide to help understand if CGD is suitable for a proposed project
Advancing Sustainability Together? Citizengenerated data and the Sustainable Development Goals – An overview of CGD methods and how each relates to implementation, monitoring, and achieving the SDGs
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Guidance on global, national, and local implementation of citizen science projects
Acting Locally, Monitoring Globally – How to link citizen-generated data to SDG monitoring
WeObserve – An ecosystem of citizen observatories for environmental monitoring
SciStarter – A search engine for citizen science projects
- Privately-held Data Big Data
Big Data for Development Research Network – A southern-led partnership with the objective of developing policy-relevant research on big data for development
Data Philanthropy: Unlocking the Power of Private Data for Public Good – a report outlining potential pathways and use cases for using privately-held data for good
UN Global Pulse – UN initiative to accelerate discovery, development, and scaled adoption of big data innovation for sustainable development and humanitarian action through its network of Pulse Labs
UN Global Pulse and BBVA Partnership – and new project measuring economic resilience to disasters with financial data
Mobile Data
Mobile Big Data Solution for a Better Future – Report on mobile big data’s potential through case illustrations, highlighting principles that apply to using mobile data for social good, and offering a framework for showcasing benefits
Handbook on the use of Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics – A draft guidance document developed by the UN Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics
GSMA Big Data for Social Good Initiative
UN Big Data Global Working Group Task Team Activities on Mobile Phone Data
Flowkit – a suite of software tools designed to enable access and analysis of mobile data for humanitarian and development use cases by DIAL, GSMA, and Flowminder
- Administrative Data
Use of Administrative Data for Official Statistics: The Global Perspective – a UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) workshop presentation
Advancing Administrative Sources of Data for Monitoring Gender-specific Sustainable Development Goals in Africa – A study presenting best practices in the use of gender statistics generated from administrative data for policy interventions
An Administrative Data Maturity Model – building national administrative data capacity to produce results for children
Compendium of Good Practices in Linking Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and Identify Management Systems – synthesis of case studies and good practices
Core Process: Data production and dissemination
Core Process: Data utilisation and analysis
Supporting Process: Capacity development
Supporting Process: Digitalisation
Supporting Process: Communication and Awareness Raising
Supporting Process: Voluntary National Review (VNR)