Big Data: Innovative Methods and Applications for Achieving SDG

The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires the availability of highquality, timely and reliable data to produce the relevant SDG indicators and other statistics, disaggregated as relevant. To meet this need, official statistics must modernize and incorporate new data sources, including Big Data. At its 53rd session in 2022, the Statistical Commission underscored the importance of mainstreaming the use of big data and data science into the work programmes of national statistical offices and the necessity to include training in big data and data science into the training curricula of national statistical offices. This course is a first response to this injunction by sharing experience, and providing the pedagogical activities required for understanding the process leading to the production and dissemination of official statistics and SDGs with new data sources.

The course Big Data: Innovative Methods and Applications for Achieving organized by the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific (UNSIAP), with the contribution of the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality (Seoul, Korea) will be conducted from 21 to 25 October 2024, in Chiba, Japan.