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UN: Achieving sustainable development through data revolution
16.07.2015 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Data resources, or the collection of information through technology, can help bring positive change to communities in developing countries and foster sustainable development. That was the focus of one of the events on Wed at the Financing for Development Conference currently underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, the Conference participants discussed the importance of harnessing what they called the «data revolution», ahead of Sept when world leaders will gather in New York to agree on a new development agenda.
The Conference participants heard about how birth registration, poverty indicators collection, and policy monitoring are areas in which data gathering can be critical.
Meanwhile, the UN recently issued a report showing that developing countries will need to upgrade their statistical systems to carry out regular data collection, which will cost them US$1 milliard a year.
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