Get involved
The ambitious targets of the Agenda 2030 provide a powerful aspiration for achieving a better future for all – laying out where we collectively need to go and how to get there. Fulfilling these ambitions will need an effort by everyone in society from governments to businesses to civil society and citizens.
Everyone can play a role. Let's get active now and explore opportunities to get involved.
Enroll in free e-learning courses and learn how to
- Communicate gender statistics for gender equality (PARIS21 Academy)
- Communicate gender statistics for women’s economic empowerment (PARIS21 Academy)
- Compile metadata for the Sustainable Development Goals (E-Learning Platform of the United Nations Statistics Division)
- Develop and test questionnaires (Statistics Norway)
- Develop and navigate Mobile Data for Development (MD4D) project (Digital Impact Alliance, Data-Pop Alliance)
- Equitably harness the power of health data (International COVID-19 Data Alliance)
- Measure sustainable development (SDG Academy)
- Monitor indicators related to poverty (Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific)
- Report on indicator 14.4.1 - Fish stocks sustainability (FAO)
- Understand civil registration and vital statistics systems (World Bank Group)
- Understand and use the Framework for Development of Environmental Statistics in Africa (UN Economic Commission for Africa)
- Use dynamic data visualisation (PARIS21 Academy)
- Use geospatial information technology in fragile contexts (UNITAR)
- Use ICT in achieving the SDGs (SDG Academy)
- Use solar induced fluorescence and LIDAR to assess vegetation change and vulnerability (NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program)
- Use the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) for policy making (UN Statistics Division)
Don't stop learning and read
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COVID by numbers: Making sense of the pandemic with data by David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
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Data action: Using data for public good by Sarah Williams
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Democratizing our data: A manifesto by Julia Lane
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Good data: An optimist's guide to our digital future by Sam Gilbert
- How to make the world make up: Ten rules for thinking differently about numbers by Tim Harford
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Storytelling with data: A data visualization guide for business professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
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The sum of the people: How the census has shaped nations, from the ancient world to the modern age by Andrew Whitby
or listen to a podcast
- Colour of innovation (UNDP)
- Conversations with data (DataJournalism.com)
- Data for the people (PARIS21)
- Learning from data (in French, University of Geneva)
- SDG Learncast (UN SDG:Learn)
- Stats + stories (Miami University, American Statistical Association)
- Women in data science (Stanford University)
About
The campaign is coordinated by the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) and financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). It aimed to raise awareness in the run-up to the 2021 United Nations World Data Forum, which took place in Bern during 3-6 October 2021.
