[CODATA-international] UN World Data Forum Session: Multi-Stakeholder Data Bridges II – Making data work for cross-domain grand challenges

Mon Sep 27 07:20:34 EDT 2021

*CODATA and partners are convening a virtual session at the UN World Data
Forum, 13:00-14:00 UTC on Monday 4 October.*

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*Overview:*

Solving today’s global grand challenges demands that science and policy
embrace data innovations, synergies, and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
Therefore, the International Science Council, acting as the global voice
for science, is launching the CODATA Decadal Programme ‘Making Data Work
for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges’, and seeks the collaboration of UN
partners and other stakeholders in this initiative.

The Programme will build the international communities of practice needed
to enhance and harmonise digital and data capacity across science and
policy, and mutually reinforce one another’s ability to respond to emerging
opportunities and threats. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated both the
power of data-driven science-policy dialogues and exchanges, and also the
need for improvement to face future challenges as a global community.
Creating a two-way, digital bridge between scientific research and official
monitoring is vital to enable scientifically grounded policy, and
translation of society’s needs to science. New techniques for data
mobility—getting the data when and where needed—and analysis that leverage
huge amounts of data and information, from both traditional and new
sources, are revolutionising this space.

This session builds on one with the same title in the 2020 virtual forum.
As well as showcasing and discussing progress with the objectives
described, it also features new speakers from related initiatives. New
developments include 1) the UN Data Standards for United Nations
system-wide reporting of financial data (the “Data Cube”)
<https://unsceb.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/UN_DataStandards_Digital_20200324.pdf>

https://unsceb.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/UN_DataStandards_Digital_20200324.pdf;
and, 2) work in the context of the Oceans Decade on SDGs to develop and
harmonise ontologies to bridge between a number of UN Agencies. Updates
include 3) the finalisation and publication of the UNDRR-ISC Hazard
Information Profiles, and the governance, maintenance and technical
presentation of this resource; and 4) the innovative new work of the ALPHA
network, as part of an IRDC project, to combine demographic, health and
clinical data for COVID-19, and to provide an ML-enhanced dashboard and
visualisations for policy makers. The session will conclude with a
presentation on progress in good practice
<https://fairvocabularies.github.io/> https://fairvocabularies.github.io/ and
harmonisation of semantic products (vocabularies, ontologies, metadata
profiles): the multi-stakeholder bridges needed to make data work.

*The session will cover the following related topics:*

   1. the new UN Data Standards for United Nations system-wide reporting of
   financial data (the “Data Cube”), an HLCM-UNSDG product that received much
   praise and is one of the two flagship initiatives of the recently published
   UN Secretary-General’s Data Strategy;
   2. new work in the context of the Oceans Decade on SDGs to develop and
   harmonise ontologies to bridge between a number of UN Agencies;
   3. progress on the finalisation and publication of the UNDRR-ISC Hazard
   Information Profiles, and in particular on the governance, maintenance and
   technical presentation of this essential resource for the Sendai process;
   4. the innovative new work of the ALPHA network, as part of an IRDC
   project, to combine demographic, health and clinical data for COVID-19, and
   to provide an ML-enhanced dashboard and visualisations for policy makers.
   5. progress on good practice in semantic products (vocabularies,
   ontologies, metadata profiles)
   6. the further development of the DDI-CDI specification to assist with
   linking and bridging between data sets.

Panel

   1. Introduction: Data Bridges – Why a Decadal Programme? (5 minutes)
   Simon Hodson (Moderator) CODATA
   2. Data Cube: HLCM-UNSDG Data Standards for United Nations system-wide
   reporting of financial data (8 minutes)
   Remo Lalli, Secretary, High Level Committee on Management, United
   Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
   3. Harmonisation of ontologies for the Oceans Decade (8 minutes)
   Pier Luigi Buttigieg, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel:
   Kiel, DE
   4. Hazard Information Profiles: scientific input, governance,
   maintenance and technical presentation (8 minutes)
   Virginia Murray, CODATA Executive Committee, Chair of the ISC-UNDRR
   Hazard Definitions and Classification Review Technical Working Group and
   Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Health England / Simon Cox,
   CSIRO, Australia and CODATA Executive Committee
   5. Harmonisation, Visualisation and Analysis of COVID-19 Data in Malawi
   and Kenya (8 minutes)
   Chifundo Kanjala, Metadata professional, Network for Analysing
   Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 data on Africa,
   Lilongwe, Malawi
   6. Good Practice and Guidelines for Semantic Interoperability (8 minutes)
   Alejandra Gonzalez Beltran, Data and Software Engineering Group Leader,
   Science and Technologies Facilities Council, UK Research and Innovation
   7. Discussion, feedback and invitation to get involved (15 minutes)
   Arofan Gregory (Moderator) Consultant, CODATA and DDI Alliance

Thanks,
Asha
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