Harnessing the Data Revolution to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Enabling Frogs to Leap

by Erol K. Yayboke, Erin Nealer (Editor), Charles F. Rice (Editor)

Overview

Before launching its second round of global goals—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the United Nations convened a High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. As part of its final report, the Panel called for a “data revolution” and recommended the formation of an independent body to lead the charge. In this report, CSIS and JICA-RI analyze the challenges and opportunities that exist in the pursuit of the data revolution. The report also considers two developing-country cases—Laos and Myanmar—in the broader context of what will be needed to enable “leapfrog” data technologies to take hold and ultimately drive the data revolution without following the linear progression of development laid out by countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Though not without its bumps and turns, the road to the data revolution is paved with promise and possibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442280304
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/22/2017
Series:	CSIS Reports
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	74
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Erol Yayboke is a fellow and deputy director of the Project on Prosperity and Development at CSIS.
Erol K. Yayboke is deputy director and senior fellow with the Project on U.S. Leadership in Development and Project on Prosperity and Development at CSIS.
Charles F. Rice is a research associate with the Project on U.S. Leadership in Development at CSIS.