GIS Solutions for Sustainable Development Goals Webinar

okay well I'll just chill into it this is a really interesting time for us as far as a kind of GIS and sustainable development goals are it's a it's we see the opportunity for these things to come together in a in a really interesting way in many ways maps provide a kind of universal language for us to begin to look at and address problems like the sustainable development goals and they're they're key indicators and there's two ideas behind this first the GIS community is building and often eager to share their data the datasets they're building their their systems of record meanwhile the sustainable development goals provide a kind of amazing approach a set of really high level objectives that people around the world organizations around the world can get behind and and all pull together and GIS provides a kind of integrating platform for looking at those and the indicators for each global development goal provide kind of provide an outline for what GIS users can do to help participate in the achievement of these global goals next slide next slide so one of the things that we know it's Maps provide a universal language for common understanding and there's there's some really interesting aspects this every organization is creating and sharing their own information for their areas of interest all these organizations all GIS organizations around the world have a core mission their reason to exist in and in support of their mandate and their area of focus they're building content and and they're heavily invested in creating those important information sets for their areas of interest and what's what's very compelling about this is is every organization's information fits on to the surface of the earth everybody is contributing by building their own GIS and addressing their own problems these can be used for both visual displaying use as well as spatial analysis next slide and what's interesting is every day these organizations and and there are hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world billions of people are building and compiling their geographic data layers about topics that are critical to their own work and for their areas of interest and the scope of information covers everything we're working on including every aspect of these global goals and and that data is being compiled from rooms in a building all the way to parcels of land to infrastructure for neighborhoods for local communities regions States nations up to the planet levels and even sometimes beyond into the solar system and and web GIS is bringing all of this information to life in a in a kind of common framework just like Google brought information together with its Google search and discovery GIS is starting to fill in information for the planet and that notion of a network of organizations that provide that information is is I think a real strength and a real opportunity in the in the broad GIS community next slide so if we extend that idea of geo referencing this shared data on to the web where every information set becomes a URL just like all information on the web suddenly it's not just your own data in your organization that you're working with but you also have this ability to tap into other information that that's being shared about your geographic area of interest and and what we find fascinating these days is every organization can begin to index that day to discover it bring it into their own information catalogs into their portals and and then put putting that information to work alongside their own information and integrated with their own information is is actually a really incredible opportunity to address some of these these really key objectives that I think everyone is getting aligned behind with the sustainable goals and what's interesting about the way these different data sets are coming from multiple organizations is is GIS makes it easy to integrate those and to work those in other words everybody is assembling their own GIS from data that's coming from many organizations next slide in other words every one of our individual GIS is are starting to become part of a bigger whole and then that should be wh o le but so this concept of this shared GIS is really interesting it it's not just your own information which is very valuable and and and really it's amazing how organizations have contributed that it's this ability to access and tap in other information that that provides real synergy for GIS users in a way it's useful to think about that as a shared GIS for the world and it can serve as the basis for a number of comprehensive GIS applications like we we are very excited about sustainable development goals because it provides it provides a set of objectives that many organizations can get a line behind and we can all work towards the same same set of goals with the same indicators building content in some common ways so it's a real chance to leverage GIS to do good next slide the result of all these agencies creating this data in a way organizations think about the data they created their systems of Records you know the foundational layers for the world things like parcels census geography environmental layers transportation base maps etc all of that's being built and assembled the world's getting filled in and and the pace of migrating these kinds of data into web GIS is beginning to grow and it's kind of an upward curve it's growing exponentially and we see many contributions coming online and and just growing participation there's four million plus users now in ArcGIS online using information they're creating billions of tile services every day and it's it's it's really catching on and this system of systems idea where everybody's GIS is getting connected to each other and information is flowing between those provides a really interesting opportunity the GIS community is creating this really strong and vibrant Network every day it's very dynamic and growing and changing next slide we we think things like global development goals provide a real focus for for how people apply GIS if you think about each goal and the set of indicators for each goal those those really provide objectives four-forty information items in the system and key applications and also critical audiences that can be served by the GIS that that we're all building and and when we when we think about GIS and information one of the other things we've started to really focus on as GIS has moved to the web is to is to understand and recognize that GIS is building on top of the original data set so all the data sets that are being built it's really cool but but but GIS goes beyond just those individual data sets next slide one of the things that's in every every GIS is a collection of really intelligent information items so if you if you look at your portals in your and your information catalogs maps and scenes are starting to provide there kind of payloads of information so all the raw letters are being placed in the context on to base maps with mashups those raw data sets have information pop-ups so that people can report and explore the data your map can be a window into really interesting and litical functions and and that that set of of rich intelligent information items things like maps and web scenes that are made up of intelligent layers with pop-ups and with analytics and tools that work with them is is really fascinating next slide and and one of the key ways these maps and scenes it used is is very interesting if you think now of an online map an interactive map you can think of every map as an app in other words people need intelligent information items to do their work apps become a way to deliver capabilities that are focus to an individual or a group or a community of people that that can all put that information to work your map becomes this intelligent information delivery mechanism all the layers that you want to get access to it's kind of a window into that information if you want to reach into that map through your app and run some analytics because that's a function you need you can do that so this this collection of intelligent apps is how the great work of GIS organizations can start to be delivered to people who can really put that information to work and to keep it going so a lot of times we think about that information catalog as as everybody's collection we we have one where we're starting to think about the idea of a living atlas for the planet the collection of best available content that people can use and and we we're just finding that is really catching on organizations are starting to deliver and that brings us back around to the collective sustainable development goals next slide and it's these 17 walls and their corresponding indicators that really are beginning to be used to define a set of information products we're going to talk about some of those this morning and the set of indicators for each of those goals provide a kind of outline or a plan of action for implementing GIS for sustainable development and that's that's a vision that I think we're all very excited about and I think it's actually achievable I think the technology is there I think the know-how for how to do it is there I think you guys by showing up we're kind of overwhelmed by how many of you turned into this broadcast we think it's a very interesting time I think I think you know the excitement about about achieving this is real and we're very excited about that so let's let's get on with more details about the presentation I'd like to introduce Charles Brigham he's a member of our sustainable development team he's dedicated to working with you on your important work and achieving your mission thank you thanks Clint welcome everybody before we get into more detailed information products I just want to introduce some of the work that you guys are doing but also start out with understanding the framework and process that you all are familiar with and play a part in GIS is your profession your technology and really provides the framework and process for creating such a smarter world and it brings together all of the data integrating it and managing it it brings it into an abstraction that people can understand that can be easily visualized and inform the world and you all do that in your regular work many of you do and with the SDGs we need to quit thinking in terms of limitation as to limitations as to what a map is a map becomes a platform for your conversations about sustainable development and this ability to bring things into view that bring in your views my views your goals and my goals and as we think about the sustainable development goals to get a better idea of what our community is doing we can look at the next set of slides to see a lot of examples from the GIS community and how it naturally supports the SDGs next the purpose of these slides in the next set is to briefly illustrate your work and to show that our users are already working on the SDGs that you all naturally work towards these goals and help everyone think about how we might convene to achieve goals within your organization all of those are related in some way to the SDGs so I would urge people to come back to this next set of slides to just look at the great work our users are doing I'm going to go through those for the purpose of showing them the work of the GIS community spans across all the goals these SDGs have an effect on all of us next slide our health livelihoods and the GIS community is working towards improved health and well-being next slide the SDGs educate us all through GIS we can elevate the value of the SDGs and through our applied GIS work thus improving the rights of all individuals next slide as you can see these aren't abstract concepts these are things that are applicable to all of us to local communities this is how the STG is translate into world real world applications through GIS and we can use your spatial data ingest to measure things like potential energy supply chain efficiency various examples can be illustrated to show the value of the work that you do regularly or we can understand and address gaps and for instance connectivity to help identify vulnerabilities as we know many of us live in cities and this will only increase and GIS is critical to improving livelihoods and the communities that are strong vibrant and thriving and enjoyable the SDGs addressed the concerns of the jazz community we all know that population pressures water scarcity soil erosion our elements that contribute to climate today whether global or local the GIS community has been studying the human environment relationship for at least half a century and that's a testament of the great work that you've all do we know things are intrinsically linked the SDG framework allows us to better understand this ling linkages these linkages and develop solutions using technology we integrate these relationships into our thinking around our solutions we provide to our users and it's a collective effort that cannot work independently of you what people are doing with GIS cuts across all of the SDGs and this is an opportunity for the GIS community to advance the discipline to foster even greater collaboration partnerships leveraging the STG framework or blueprint and some some may may refer to it as but as we continues to develop results based on partnerships with you all and some examples to note are things like the urban observatory where data is contributed by various nations curated for comparability or the living atlas as was presented briefly by clint where maps and data layers from dowels and of contributors are provided or specific global spatial datasets such as the ecological land units which include data on land cover lithography and more of the world and lastly and more recently with with the ocean summit at the United Nations the ecological Marine units containing millions of observations across the globe Onkyo potion characteristics so there are many ways that geospatial data and spatial analysis can help us understand and measure our progress some indicators very clearly need GIS and geospatial analysis to be achieved as shown here others may not specifically need spatial analysis but in addition to using data to help inform decision-making some indicators can benefit simply from mapping and visualization to better understand the goals understanding where for any of these indicators is extremely powerful some of the ones thrown here so if we go back to that framework and process that GIS provides it really changes our perception of perceptions of development and some people in our space or outside may ask why does GIS matter those who work with geographic information systems can focus on their careers focus their careers on figuring out how data can trip can contribute to a broad range of scientific topics and studies one of which is development and GIS supports development in a variety of different careers and industries that rely on GIS including those working in investment lending grant management program oversight monitoring and evaluation as well as project level support activities such as engineering management logistics telecommunications and planning development practitioners can also use us to determine physical properties of a specific area and understand or predict patterns and data that the GIS can store analyze and visualize and looking at development professionals can look at previous program data that might include high and low costs for a specific data time period in an area and within a crop or across a project or a series of projects from their professional can make assessments based on the patterns of the geographic area based on past observation so this workflow that is illustrated here is the six patterns that we try to convey and most if not all of us fall within or among these patterns specifically our GIS is a complete web GIS platform that facilitates this process that means it uses web services as a system for managing and applying geographic information this entire bundle of Technology or system system of technology is deployable on-premise or in the cloud or in some hybrid combination it's fed by services and these services can be accessed on anything any device in web browsers and also desktops can be enriched this entirely tecna's entire technology is designed to support individuals one at a time or to support a complete organization or organizations its beginning really to move as Clint illustrated earlier into communities of organizations and support that infrastructure as well so looking through and stepping through these patterns GIS is going out into the field Michael good child first introduced this idea to us maybe 20 years ago we need to take GIS into the field it's finally maturing so that the field is getting connected with the office so that the field people can easily cut like data at the same time people in the office can be looking at the observations coming in so an applied example of that is in Iraq where this type of exercise was extremely valuable for field data collection so recently in Baghdad they introduced collection techniques using the technology or immunizations for polio collecting the data and at the same time at w-h-o they were looking at it analyzing it understanding and adapting the surveys through data integration and management the ArcGIS platform integrates data from all different types of systems it provides a context through the system elements and associated data with their characteristics abstracted as information layers GS is a platform for an integration and flexible we see this type of integration and management among our users and we are iterating over solutions to support the sustainable development goals so for our example curation we can through certain types of apps such as shown here we can ensure that data is discoverable discoverable and used and apps can enable quick data contributions to an organization's SDG initiatives as this case presents the SDG contributor application such as allowing you to nominate specific apps maps and scenes for inclusion in a hub Oregon organization organization the streamlining the data integration and management process of course a lot of us understand analysis and modeling and its use in GIS it has a significant history and expanding at rapid speed and GIS embeds advanced intima analytics and visualization naturally this is nothing new to many of you you all know it analytics spatial analysis and geoprocessing have been the heart and soul of jazz for a long time but what's integrating in now is the ability to deal with very very large data sets and do analytics to create insights and also new tools that allow us to explore and understand better these patterns and create insights faster at rapid speed so this next visualization is using the platform to understand geospatial data issues such as access to health care addressing s dg3 this app was built by a eh AI n health information network in asia supported by the Asian Development Bank and it really uses its using a browser to invoke a geo processing operation running as a web service on a server equipped with ArcGIS server using the cost surface and selected healthcare facilities time polygons isochrones for those who are familiar and generating to loc object and reining in illustrate 30 60 90 120 minute travel zones toward the facilities these travel zones are then intersected with a population distribution surface and tables are produced summarizing the population served for each administrative boundary within each of the travel zones so this type of application supports the monitoring reporting of SDG 2 & 3 in certain ways in terms of access to healthcare and can be shared widely to assist others in the monitoring and reporting on specific elements of SDG 2 or 3 and a lot of you have a lot of these solutions likely prepared to use and uptake and chair and we want to make that more that sharing community more vibrant among the SDGs in terms of planning decision-making dashboards are common to all of us we at ESRI have built easily configurable dashboards for a very long time that can pull in data sources from any system and the SDG provide perhaps the largest scope of data at so navigating your way through this information can be tricky well we all know that dashboards are effective in their ability to quickly and intuitively convey insights for decision-making they must be able to link to a larger system rather than live in isolation and this is the really exciting part moving outwards towards this hub concept of connecting everyone the data and services powering dashboards can come not only from ArcGIS but from any provider that makes it services available in an open format sharing your work is extremely critical we've seen a lot of input among the community on story maps many of you may be familiar with story maps if not this is a example of a story map around SDGs this is a story map journal template and it really illustrates collaboration among various different organizations concerned with gender equality this is was built for International Women's Day but it gives the reader a rich and engaging walk through the topics such as education literacy and participates in government as they relate to goal 5 gender equality and a lot of these stakeholder engagement applications are used for everything from communication to annual ports to regular reporting to crowdsourcing which brings me to a a project around the world's largest lesson to educate people on the sustainable development goals and really geared towards helping teachers build lesson plans the world's largest lesson wanted to give a view into gender dynamics and leadership roles around them for people to understand these roles around them and the gender parity so we supported the configuration of a story map template to help women and girls be motivated to see the gender balance around on them so working with our partners within SDGs we collaborated on a crowdsource story map that allows for anyone to complete a survey and view a gender ratio representative of their community influencers and decision maker makers both local and national this has around easily 10,000 plus entries and it sparked a lot of conversation on gender parity not just at the global level but within local communities and it's still contributing to those discussions and live now more common stakeholder engagement elements if you may our AP is and open AP is and we support development of many different AP is one of which is the SDG metadata API which we supported with the United Nations statistics division that allows the sharing of authoritative goal target indicator metadata to a wide range of users and makes it easier to get data into the ArcGIS platform and do great things with GIS one of the impetus is behind this is that we wanted our users to easily easily be able to ingest SDG metadata into their applications with little to no burden so this API aims to be a building block for spurring SDG innovation the hardest part we all know is action so how do we incite action we can get to a certain point but what does the action look like and we're a technology provider so we we don't have the ability to move people's hands per se but for example here you can look at things like crop production that shows this is an app showing a specific area in Kenya kusuma County crop statistics from the government of sumu in Kenya this is real data you can see on the top left that there's very little maize that's planted and overall crop production then most surrounding areas one might want to dig further into this too through creating an application or data collection activity or even simply a community event directly from the SDG targets via community or NGO initiative aimed at agricultural productivity the SDGs provide an easy way to associate programs to them so bridging these efforts together technologically through a system of systems approaches what's really happening now no longer are we talking about siloed systems new systems and platform development but about mature systems that exist now to do this to bring all of these applications together so the work towards the SDGs is no different than what we're doing today we need to lift our focus to the long term and why are the planet around this framework for collective action and the SDG framework is forged into what our users which you do everyday story maps analytics dashboards open data it's already in line with the data you collect analyze and derive understanding so artists will help users like yourselves achieve their objectives and goals and at the same time contribute to a larger body of work so we're now going to show some of the examples and demo some of these patterns presented and the SVG applications for you to leverage in your work we're going to now switch over quickly to to adam Fister who will go into some of those things okay Thank You Charles so like Charles mentioned and I should be showing you a screen now showing us some some of the goals and the icons with an app like Charles mentioned earlier looking at taking a first view of the goals there's there's a lot there all right it's just that the volume of data can be a little dizzying to be honest and that's sort of where I first started so I needed some way to make sense of this this to pivot around it but of course I wanted to put that into a spatial context and what we came up with initially to visualize this data at a global level is this dashboard view so from this view I can take a look at some examples that we've got set up one around the global view for no poverty so what I did is I just told the dashboard to show me target 1.1 which is by 2030 eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere and in relation to that show me the actual indicators for each the indicators for target 1.1 you can see we've got a map view of the poverty gap there we're also viewing that information as a chart looking at the bottom 15 countries so maybe this is this is where we can get a global view of how we're doing for target 1.1 and maybe start to ask questions about those bottom 15 countries and see you know where can we direct our efforts a little bit more effectively to help out those nations if we need to and then on the right you're seeing a little animation of a story map preview essentially related to global poverty so I can get information about that story map see who published it I can even click and launch that one right from the dashboard and then I get a nice interactive message around global poverty if I want to learn more understand more Khan texts around the SDG so again what did we do well we looked at goal one and we looked at target 1.1 you can see this is a listing of all the targets for goal 1 and this app will let us sort of drill through each target all the way down to the indicator level so here's a description of that indicator and we can even look at the metadata behind it and for those of you that may not be familiar with the segs in the data structure each goal 1 through 17 is a set of targets how are we going to get to that goal and each target has a set of indicators which tells us how we measure each target essentially how do we track progress and then the indicator metadata tells us how we calculate it how we define it what what's the rationale behind this why are we actually doing this what how is the data available and like I said all of that information is extremely large and could be hard to sort of make sense of if you're just looking at it maybe in traditional forms like PDFs or other other reports but incorporating all this into an application lets us very quickly interact with the information and the data and visualize it to get a better understanding so again I switch to a global view and we switch to go 3 around good health and we're looking at the the epidemics of AIDS tuberculosis and malaria and some other diseases so again we see a map some summary statistics these are just the key key indicators that we wanted to make sure that we're aware of make sure that these numbers are going down and also another story map but within the dashboard I can switch from a global view to a country view and we're staying on target 3.3 but we're visualizing those indicators a little bit differently and since we switched to Thailand we're looking at a sub-national view I can interact with this map and I now see summary statistics that are completely focused for Thailand and again I have some provincial information down at the bottom represented in the chart so this information this this view of the data is a really good way to to get people engaged maybe at a first pass if they're not too familiar with the STDs showing them simple visualizations like this some summary to just statistics basically getting them introduced to why this matters and in different ways that we can look at this information and then these services Charles showed you a diagram about how we sort of architecture take an approach to arcgis what are the main components in that architecture is services right and we use open data services to power a lot of what you just saw in that dashboard application so what we're looking at now is an open data site this is something that I can just click a checkbox to enable and then I can take those services from different organizations like w-h-o or other UN agencies or even governments or even private private organizations that have exposed their work their data and bring them all into an open data site just by configuring an application like this so I can search data you can see it I've got the tiles here again if I click on goal 5 I can get access to information in a web map attributes maybe you want to look at maternal mortality instead of viewing it in a dashboard like I saw this gives me a much more focused view of the data if I'm interested in the actual attributes about the data set itself I can take a look at the table or view some charting information about the data I can actually download it in different formats spreadsheets or shapefiles but one key thing to notice is I also have this option for using an API so how I built that dashboard I didn't download and extract all sorts of different information from thousands of different sites I where available I actually used open services to bring them into the dashboard so that's real key because that people make updates as organizations make updates different sites and different datasets I don't have to go back there and make sure I'm paying attention I'm just hooked into their Live service URL and it's bringing it bringing it directly into my application and another thing I wanted to show you is a an application around contributing to the SVG's and the way that we do that is a through to an application like this that actually lets us take a look and see who is submitting information so what i've done is i've logged in and this is a different type of workflow so i can see the groups that i'm uh that i have access to you we can see we've got essentially a group for each goal i but as a reviewer someone in a reviewing type role i know that we have this data in services staging group so if i click on that I can see information that people have put into that group so there's this global index item and we can see that there that item has been scored it has a 53 out of 100 right I can take a look and see that this is a new item I'm going to review it the title is okay it's missing some thumbnails in the description so what I can do is actually click this button to say send some notes to the person that submitted it saying please add a description and I can send that off and then once that score comes up to something that's acceptable I can change that to accept it and then the reviewing process essentially can go to the next step and maybe one of the next steps is that once I click on that button that says accepted I can take that item the service this data whatever it is and behind the scenes put it into the open data site so automatically it's been put into this QA application been reviewed scored we've made some comments on it and then behind the scenes it's actually been exposed to the public if that's if that's part of our business process and rules and then I wanted to touch on a few story maps that Charles referenced earlier and again if you're not familiar with story maps I just have our home page up here in front of us and we've got a couple featured story maps that you can look at as well as some samples or templates for different ways you can design your story different templates that allow you to configure bring in photos go through a sort of a tour of photos that have geolocation associated with them swipe to show change over time in one of the one of the story map templates that we have is called a crowdsourcing template and this right out of the box you can actually configure this to let people give put their voice on the map and this is what we've done for this application people want to be associated with in SDG they want to show their commitments so they can add their voice choose to sign in if they like add a photo put their name and organization and then pick which goal matters to them enter a brief description and then when they click on submit it'll show up with everybody else's so this is a fun and interactive way to get people excited and and show people why you're committed to supporting one or more SPG's but it's a configurable application I didn't have to write any code I just basically spun up the app added a few things like a title logo and then I went from there and just to touch on take that to the next step child showed that a gender equality story map this is something these are the way we get to that point right is we we expose these templates on github so like I said you can configure it however you like but you can also come to our github site and search for the story maps and you can see each template has been listed there you can download this and configure it and take it to the next step and build thing like what we saw earlier which is this so I've added a custom header I'm calculating based on all the data that's been entered into this gender survey what is the essentially the global average ratio and I've changed it I've added a few buttons but essentially the idea is the same I want to let people come in I want to enable teachers across the world to teach this lesson to their class in a fun and interactive way so we go through and we let them enter information about themselves figure out a location and in this case we've locked it down just to a city we can't go any further down than that and then we just let them start answering questions and as we answer a question the ratio is calculated dynamically on the fly for us so rather than just filling this out on the form which which is they could do as well they can go all the way through this submit it and their ratio will then show up next to everyone else's in their area and as they zoom out and pan around the map they can get another idea of what the ratio is like in their area so this was great and interactive for the public and teachers to get engaged around goal five and we are very happy to work with project everyone and the world's largest lesson initiative and one of the ways that this can be enabled across sort of an initiative like this is to bring this same data since it's being served out as a service into an Operations dashboard type view and here we're seeing the exact same data and but what I've done is I've configured these widgets here along the side of the screens to show me some summary statistics about what we're looking at here we're almost at 11,000 entries which is pretty remarkable we can see entries from the last 30 days along with a tiny dot map of just entries from where they're coming in all over the world again we have that average ratio we can see who's using the different social providers if that makes sense or that's something of interest to it and we're also just getting a summary by question how are people answering so this is a different view of that same data which is really key because now they have this information the world's largest lesson staff can take this and they can look at their next initiative right or they can do this initiative again next year and look at the change over time and see how maybe their initiative is having an impact in different areas switching gears a little bit I'd like to talk about another configurable template which I believe is just out of beta as of our most recent release and it's called a live map template and what this allows you to do is configure an application to search for different providers a twitter flickr in this case we're using a service called thick which i just learned this morning actually lets you ping an area for people that are reporting different types of illnesses so it's kind of like a weather report but for people that are you know not feeling so great right so this is something that they've configured against this provider and you can go in and look in the map will adjust see where these this information is but there was no code written for this right they just configured the application so think about if we wanted to take this to to have an SDG context this is what that might look like so well here we're looking at goal 5 and we're searching through Twitter to find tweets that are Delocated I know I've done a little customization to this I've added this neat little spinning STG logo we can switch to goal 14 and maybe zoom in a little bit I can add different keywords up here if I if I like to but we're looking through Twitter to see who's talking about goal 14 this is something that you could very easily tie to a specific goal or a theme and then embed in your website with little to no code and have it up and running within a few minutes and again this is a template I was able to add this little logo because we had this template available on github so it's something you can configure and do little to no customization to or you can take it the next step using the template that we provide and then finally I just wanted to end by talking about something that we call insights which is is coming into it's version 2.0 release which is moving very quickly and adding some very powerful features to exploratory data analysis and what I've done is I've made a real simple dashboard to get you thinking about what you might be able to do with this type of product as it relates to the SDGs and I've added in some spatial data sets this is the same data set that we're looking at and in the dashboard it's running the same services but what I did is I brought in some information around the prevalence of undernourishment and the proportion of overweight children so this is something that you may want to look like look at in conjunction with each other on the same map to see if there are any trends that you may notice some things that are going on that we were aware of and that's we can verify or maybe some trends that we weren't expecting to see this this insights allows you to drag and drop information and create data very quickly and gain that insight so I'm going to show you a little bit about how I did that I'm going to add some data to a page and essentially it works like having a workbook similar to Microsoft Excel I'm going to add some data to my workbook a page on my workbook and it's going to map that for me right away it knows that there's spatial data associated with this if it didn't of course I could go in and enable location so if there's just address information in my data set I can go through and actually geo code and place that data on the map all within this this application I can choose to style this information by a particular attribute in my data I can do it a couple different ways I count sand amounts so it shows up just as symbolized points within to represent the country I can classify that data all within the application here and of course I can change the colors and normalize it by different fields - if I'd like to do that but we'll leave it just as a shaded color ramp and then if I wanted to take a look at information over the years I can choose these are the columns in my data it scans my data set and it knows that there's a date column in there so it's going to parse that out if I wanted to look at data by different time intervals such as day of the week or month I could do that too but I'll take the year the country code and our value drag it over and create a chart we'll put that down here and now we can see that data over time and as I mouse over it gives me information about that particular data set and where things are trending I can also take that data just the three-digit code and the value and create another chart showing me the same information maybe as a tree map I can see the different countries that show up things that maybe I was aware of that I didn't see before and as I interact with each card on the page the datasets will reflect in the different cards as well here we've got another example showing a bubble chart and when I interact with a bubble chart I can see them the country being highlighted on the left hand side there too so insights is a very powerful tool for data exploration you can get all the way down to that the the country level or whatever data you have available with different Geographic levels you can pull into insights so here we're looking at that same crop data that Charles showed earlier by county within Kenya and all we had to do is add that data to our map from existing services from an Excel workbook from a CSV file etc and we can start to share this information we can actually look at the different steps that we used to go through and create this workbook and share that out with different people so different people within our organizations we can give that to them they can put in their own datasets and rerun the analysis and compare that so we can cut down the time that it takes to get to these different steps and bring that and share that into a collaborative environment and finally what I wanted to show is a related to the sugs of course we're working with a group within the United Nations to build a an API and the API is an open API that will retrieve information around the goals and we can get at that information if you're a developer by asking it very simply using this URL structure to show me all the information for goal one or show me all the indicators relate to target 1.1 etc and you can sort of you can pivot around that in a lot of different ways and return met all the data all the way down to the metadata level you can filter the information and essentially we take this we were putting this out as a building block we want people to build innovative applications using this API we want people to take inspiration from a dashboard like this which is what I used in conjunction with some services and that metadata API and draw new ways to show this information and get people engaged with the sustainable development goals with that I think I'll turn it over to Brendan yeah well I'll take over control of the the presentation and we have a few more slides to wrap up that Charles will be be speaking to is everyone able to see my my slide deck now I see a Brendan looks good okay great well for those of you that are still hanging on we have a special treat for you at the end so stick around we're getting towards the end and I just want to share that and and thank everybody I mean the big picture here is that GIS is collaborative by nature all of us have collaborated around GIS information for most of if not all of our careers it's really about connecting everyone and creating a system of engagement to engage everybody in a collective manner to achieve a specific goal whether that be a spatial data set on roads rivers or otherwise but also connecting people and their organization and that's really where we're moving to and Quint Illustrated that early on so providing context so that we understand as communities what's going on and GS and and maps are the common language that brings us together to do that maps help us communicate they help us understand and they will help us act so we're all familiar with this previous slide but the notion of and down barriers and getting individuals in different pockets to share and collaborate around common information is always a challenge and that's what many of you through a collaborative your collaborative nature of the application of GIS and geography you can help your organizations do this and you do naturally and we as all of us need to educate other people on the collaborative network that jazz provides through shared services a system of sustainable development that can connect all of our organizations together so we can start to collaborate and share and it and take GIS to a whole new level sharing data between big agency to big agency collaborating and sharing your services so that organizations can read in organizations are sharing their services that you can use empowering everyone so with that we are starting to work towards a vision that takes all of that into consideration and utilizes all these shared services so this sharing of services becomes critical and so does that shared environment that we sometimes term open data so we share services so now what so this is where it really gets exciting and we're starting to talk more about connecting through what's we're turning as a hub technology that builds on top of where we are with open data right now and this really aims to help answer the questions that open data reveals this key piece of engagement must be part of a contemporary jazz today and we're building it with our users with input from the community so how do we use data in effective ways to become more efficient more innovative and responsive how do we do this across departments and agencies to improve processes and inform citizens as well as be transparent and engaging to bridge all these groups together that you see here once we bridge that information together we can provide that information from those organizations or agencies to the public through that we can engage the public NGOs journalists citizen startups and then get to that piece of action to complete to allow for the complete completeness of the feedback loop that starts with opening our data and what does that look like how are we moving towards that well what's going to be really exciting at the UC if any of you are coming and for those that are not we're going to be sharing a lot of this content after but we're with the SDGs this is a requirement we need to bring information together the SDG provides that process and framework for a better future so how do we operationalize that while the SPG's don't address all of our concerns there's there a starting point for us to better understand our world and address current and future challenges so their blueprint for a better future and GIS underpins all of the goals to the geography and the science of where the applications of Geographic science using GIS technology so I'm going to leave you with a sneak peak of some of the great work by the government of Ireland which will be further detailed at the UC but this integrates all the data applications open data analysis tools stories narratives around the SDGs into what's going to be pushed out as a hub and that hub will be displayed by a by some of the Ireland attendees at the user conference I will end there because I think going into the hub specifically would best be suited for the government Ireland and its colleagues to share at the UC and I want to leave you with that hanging point to to follow up on thank you all I'm going to turn back to Brendan now all right thanks thanks again to Clint and and Adam and Charles that was all great stuff and remember this is just the second installment in our webinar series we have the initial one that Alan Carol and I did with story maps you can you can find that at the the webinar series website which is listed at the bottom of the screen just wanted to alert to everyone that coming up in the fall we'll be having three more installments into our webinar series well our first one after after the summer break will be on planning and prioritizing sustainable development investments and activities well we'll dig a little deeper into specific workflows GIS work pose it can support those planning and prioritizing efforts and and we'll have special special guest stars there from some of the the agencies that we're working that we're working with I'll be showcasing some of the great work they're doing similarly we'll have those for the following two webinars in the webinar series the the fourth installment monitoring and evaluation for sustainable development programs in October and then lastly we'll be building on some of the great work that Adam showed here engaging stakeholders and beneficiaries in November so with that we have a little bit of time left about 15 minutes I thought that we could open it up to to some some questions so first off one of the questions we have that we got asked is is their recording and will it be available I can feel that one the answer is yes because of our technical difficulties we kind of started the recording a little bit late but I think the meat of the presentation there from Clint and Charles and Adam that will be available up on the webinars website which in the bottom right hand corner of the screen there we had a few other questions here so we saw some of the technology that Adam demonstrated and then Charles you kind of left us with that little cliffhanger with with the Ireland efforts for the for the hub and one of our questions is you know who else has we been partnering with for these STDs efforts and you know what are the main ways that we're being engaged with the sustainable development goals so I think that that might be most appropriate for for Charles if maybe you could you could address that you know who are we partnering with and you know what do we what are we doing to support these it might be a little bit of a summary of what we covered in in today's presentation yeah well like like I mentioned earlier we're we're not doing anything as as jazz users differently it's really through our regular current exists currently existing engagements that we're engaging the community of the sustainable development goals so what I mean by that is member states use our technology UN member states have been using our technology for a significant amount of time and they need tools to better enable the culture and monitoring and reporting on the SDGs so it's really just enabling our existing users so for example given countries use our technology within the statistics offices and all those Statistics offices that within a given country use geospatial data regularly many use our technology to support their own work whether it be the SDGs or otherwise so we're trying to provide solutions that are easy for them to utilize that help them monitor and report on the SDGs and strengthen their existing systems for us you know things like census and surveys but going to a more regional or international context we also have supported the United Nations system for many decades and one specific area of focus that we've been targeting in on to help support is is just going beyond our regular building of tools to support the SDGs but to enable you know connected hubs of information among UN agencies and member states to better report and basically use more contemporary tools so we've been working with the United Nations Physics Division different UN entities on you map and others to understand their spatial data and jazz needs and start to bring and help them build tools to better monitor and report on the STG so I hope that it gets to some of that answer Brendan yeah it does it seems like as you mentioned GIS is something that people that are going to be working towards these scg's are already doing I think that that kind of collaboration piece is key pushing them to to open up their their data and tools so that people can leverage other people's efforts so that we can all kind of work in unison towards towards these goals so yeah that was a good good summary we have another question it seems that some of our attendees will will be attending the ESRI user conference I'm going to in about two weeks time and we're just wondering about some of the activities or learning opportunities that might be there that are either aligned with the sustainable development goals or sustainable development in general and maybe that could be another one for Charles and maybe Adam if you could pipe in as well I think that'd be great yeah so where are user conferences coming up July 10th and we're going to have the sustainable world showcase where there's a lot of really innovative things going on around sustainable development and and the SDG specifically like I mentioned previously Ireland's doing some really great work but it's not exclusive to Ireland I think there's a handful of countries that are going to be sharing their experiences as well as UN agencies more targeted SDG efforts I'm not sure how much to reveal here here but I would urge you to go to ESRI comm and look at and find in the agenda the sustainable world showcase fire maybe we can post that Brendan because that might be the most valuable for those attending to kind of see the whole picture of of what's going to be what's going to be presented and who's going to be there yeah that's a good idea there have been several questions about about contact and follow-up just to reiterate the recording will be available through the the webinar website and we'll also be sending up a follow-up email where we can include things like the the sustainable or the sooner world community flyer that can have catalysts out all the different activities so well we can followup with that after the webinar as far as contacts we did have a question about how how the community that thus attend this webinar can contact both the presenters and other members of the team at ESRI that are that are working on these efforts I didn't include it in this slide but it's a pretty easy email address to to remember it's simply SDGs apps ESRI comm so that's the email alias so if you have any questions about the sustainable development goals and ESRI efforts and tools that can contribute to them you can reach us at SDGs at ESRI calm and and we'll be sure to get back with you in a timely manner let's see here any other quote some specific questions maybe for for Adam you showed some pretty interesting tools there and you did a little bit of customization for some of the open source templates someone was asking you know what is there an easy way to get started that kind of set up an environment to maybe experiment with some of the templates or api's or how might someone go about that yeah that's a great question you can just go to RTS comm and there's an ability to create a free trial account which will then give you access to the templates and some of the apps that you that you saw and then if you wanted to get more involved they'd encourage you to check out some of the github sites all the links for the SDGs that we have and investigate there and feel free to reach out to us via that email alias as well great and in there in our follow up we can we can pay some resources to some of those in our follow-up kind of a related question for a specific application template the crowd source story map that you showed someone was asking and I think we've discussed this before whether there's a way to disable the photos there or is that something that you might be able to do with a custom code yeah you'll need the template right right yeah so that is something that is required in the out-of-the-box configuration but if you want to you disable that you'll need to download that and adjust a little bit of code for that okay great so there are a few other questions about like twitter accounts and things like that we do have a twitter handle at ESRI underscore nonprofit correct me if I'm wrong Raquel that's that's the twitter handle we a lot of our SPG related activities will be tweeted out through that handle I'm not sure about the other handles there mine is at geo underscore Neill and we can we can incorporate all this into a follow up email we probably should have had it on a slide but we can we can do that in the follow-up email just just so you're aware of I'm not just the events and activities but also we like to promote all the work of our user community that that's doing but that that's really addressing these targets and indicators so that's a good channel to follow to kind of keep in the loop for some of those things events and also just great examples of the work out there all right so we do have a couple more specific questions but it might be best for us to follow up with those on an individual basis seeing as we're a bit over time right now unless there's anything else for many of our panelists I just like to thank everyone for tuning in this has been a great great event and thanks for bearing with us with the technical difficulties at the beginning again the the webinar will be it has been recorded and it will be posted up on the SDG webinar series um web page so thanks for tuning in and be sure to to join us in September fir for our next webinar on planning and prioritizing activities Thanks

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Published: Thu Jul 06 2017