United Nations Summit of the Future

A Digital Future for All – how can a digital future be shaped fairly for all and how can digitalisation contribute to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Representatives from governments, academia, civil society, and the private sector have been addressing these and other questions at the “SDG Action Days” (20-21 September 2024) in New York in the run-up to the United Nations Summit of the Future.

Data will play an important role in accelerating progress as a building block of digitalisation: BMZ is working closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to advance the use of data for development. To this end, the BMZ and UNDP are jointly providing a digital platform, the Data to Policy Navigator. The Navigator supports policy makers in integrating data and AI-based approaches into decision-making processes. The aim is to make faster and more informed decisions based on data from previous projects, optimise administrative processes and ultimately achieve better results. The Navigator makes use cases for data usage publicly and freely available.

For the BMZ project group Data Lab, Chief Data Scientist Dr. Iliya Nickelt traveled to New York to take part in events on data for sustainable development during the Action Days and to exchange ideas with key BMZ partners, including UNDP.