Posts categorized Innovation

Last month, nearly 50,000 people convened in Quito, Ecuador to discuss the importance of cities as drivers of development worldwide. While Habitat III -- the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development -- showcased many success stories, the take-home message was clear...

The United Nation Development Group’s Information Management System (IMS) is one of the largest software tools DG has ever built. With users on 131 UN Country Teams, the IMS tracks progress toward core UN goals on and coherence in 165 countries and territories....

At the United Nations General Assembly last week, government, public, and private actors signaled their intent to achieve a sustainable 2030 -- and recognition that we only have 14 more years to turn rhetoric into reality. For the past several months, we worked with the Government of Kenya to show how technology and the data revolution can support national achievement of the global goals.....

Development Gateway and Athena Infonomics were present at the Cities Alliance workshop in Accra, Ghana last week where over 150 participants convened to share lessons learned and discuss key issues to help support cities and the urban transition in Africa. The Promoting the Role of Cities: Africa Strategy Workshop has been rich with discussions, debates, and dialogues as to what actions are needed to successfully support the continent’s rapid urbanization....

One year ago this month, the Sustainable Development Goals were unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly – signaling that the world was “all in” on the 2030 Agenda....

We’re in the midst of a “data revolution” for development -- both with our collective focus toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and the expansion of demand and tools for using data sourced from public, private, and citizen-generated spheres....

Earlier this year, we were proud to re-engage with our AfDB colleagues to launch MapAfrica 2.0, an updated version of the portal....

In a recent post we introduced the Results Data Scorecard, a method for assessing the accessibility of results data across development partners. In this post, we’d like to briefly introduce the categories of the scorecard itself....

A key component of the Results Data Initiative (RDI) was the development of the Results Data Scorecard...

Development Gateway is pleased to announce that our innovative data toolkit has been featured on the BBC’s Click program...