New Data for the SDGs- resources
Monitoring for the SDGs has picked up speed after the first year of implementation. New resources exist for data producers and users.
Data for the Sustainable Development Goals is highly important, and monitoring of the Global Indicator Framework is what will lead to achievement of the Goals. New resources exist for this data. These private organizations are taking early steps to collect, analyze, and distribute data for sustainable development.
Open Data Watch
This not-for-profit organization, in part funded by a grant from the UN Foundation, works to facilitate the data revolution by promoting and providing resources for open and available data, providing technical assistance, and creating partnerships between national governments, official statistics offices, NGOs, and more for better data for the SDGs.
Joined Up Data Standards
This joint effort between Development Initiatives and Publish What you Fund aims to improve how data producers and standard setting bodies make their data more open and comparable to other data. By producing discussion papers, engaging with experts, and mapping standards in a single database, this initiative provides resources for data standards to better align.
The World Bank’s DataBank
The World Bank provides much of the data that will be used to track indicators of the SDGs. Multiple resources exist for access to this data.
SDG 16 Initiative
This data initiative for SDG 16 is a collective project from multiple organizations, and supports the open tracking of global data specific to the indicators of Goal 16. A visually compelling illustration of the power of data.
Data.world
Data resources are still being created and funded for more than just the SDGs. Data.world is a new data platform that will make access to open data easier and more consistent. This for-profit is also a public benefit corporation, and is ambitious in its resourceful application for open data.
