 We are really thrilled to be with you today for this official site event, Timely Data for the SDGs, featuring the launch of the SDSN data platform for the SDGs. SDSN is really thrilled to be co-hosting this event with the permanent mission of Finland and with Esri. Those of you who might not be as familiar with Esri, they are the masterminds behind ArcGIS, which is a fabulous tool that has revolutionized the way we're able to look at spatial data. And it's a very exciting day. Before I turn it over to Professor Sacks, I just wanted to mention it's a great day for Finland. When we wrap up in about an hour, their Prime Minister, Sena Marin, will be speaking at the High Level Political Forum just in advance of their presentation of their voluntary national review at 10 a.m. So we'll throw the links to UN television into the chat if anybody's interested in that. And we hope many of you will be with us throughout the morning to hear about the exciting example of Finland. And with that, I will turn it over to you, Jeff. Excellent. Thank you very much. Lauren, thank you for hosting us and for government of Finland. Thank you for, in fact, making this event possible and hosting the event. And congratulations on all of Finland's spectacular accomplishments at the top of the world in happiness and at the top of the world, near the top of the world in sustainable development. It's a wonderful country and wonderful guidance for all of the world. We're here to talk about achieving the SDGs and one crucial aspect of that, and that is timely data. In order to achieve the SDGs, we need solid management by government. And that means for each of the 17 SDGs, we need to know where we are, where we're going, how we have gotten to the current situation, and what is necessary to accelerate progress. And especially in this tumultuous time of COVID-19, where everything is in massive flux and billions of people around the world are extremely vulnerable, we have to understand the situation on the planet day by day, how the virus is spreading, hunger hotspots, economic threats, environmental crises that are simultaneously impinging where children are or are not in school. We are in the midst of a digital revolution. I think we all feel it. We're in the midst because of that, of a data revolution as well. We have, in fact, of course, more flow of data than was conceivable even just years ago. We're moving into the 5G world. We are in a remote sensing world. We're in a big data world where data can be aggregated by devices, by the Internet of Things. We are in a world of global networking where it's possible to collect, for example, the daily data on confirmed cases of COVID or number of deaths per day from COVID, vital information for managing this pandemic. For all of these reasons, we need a data breakthrough for the sustainable development goals. It has been the case with development objectives over the years that we often lag many, many years behind the real time. It has been shocking to me in the past that our data on poverty, a key indicator, are often five years out of date. This is because typical poverty measures depend on household surveys that are carried out perhaps every three or four years. At a time when we can use big data, proxy data, satellite data that can model and measure extreme poverty and dimensions of deprivation, even on a daily basis, certainly at frequencies of weeks and months, not many years. For this reason, SDSN, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has teamed up with ESRI and with National Geographic and with partners around the world to accelerate dramatically the use of real-time SDG-related data. These data exist. They are already being curated by organizations around the world, but they're not being used by SDG managers and by governments sufficiently. They're not in one place. They are not being aggregated and used analytically. Many areas where we could have real-time data are only now coming into use. There have been breakthroughs just in recent weeks, for example, in collecting real-time data on CO2 emissions, something very important for climate management, but we did not have such real-time data before, but networks around the world of both businesses and academia are now making it possible to collect this real-time data. For this reason, we are launching a new platform in these days. It's under construction feverishly in real-time, just in the spirit of the data, that aims to provide high frequency, high resolution, geographically specific information on key dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals for use of these data by the public and by governments and by specialists and for promoting more communities of practice to develop real-time data of relevance. And when the direct data, for example, collected by government or surveys, are not available to develop proxies that are real-time indicators, at least of the changes that are underway. If I could share my screen, which I will try to do, let's see if you could enable me to share the screen, Lauren. You should already have that permission, Jeff. It says, post-disabled, attendee screening. Well, gosh, that won't work then. Apologies. Let me go ahead. You should have it now, and I know this is going to happen as well to Mr. Oviedo, so I'm going to go ahead and enable that for him too right now, but you're going to share first, Jeff. Okay, so I am sharing. Very good. And to do that, now, I think it's this one, share. So I would like to very, very briefly introduce the SDGsToday.org website, which is going to be formally launched at an ESRI conference tomorrow. But the purpose of the SDGsToday website is to bring together and to curate real-time data for each of the 17 SDGs. And you're looking at the new homepage, and some of the variables for which we have real-time data are indicated in this SDG map that you see. So starting in the upper left-hand corner, the World Data Lab produces estimates of the population living in extreme poverty. We have from the World Food Program, the food insecure population estimates that are based on real-time observation of food insecurity. I think all of us are familiar with the COVID-19 real-time data, which has been perhaps the world's main entry point into real-time SDG-related data in recent months. We have from UNESCO data on number of children out of school, whether schools are open or not open in particular countries. We have real-time data on world female leaders, as in Finland, where female leadership has proven to be by far the most successful in containing this terrible epidemic. And male leaders have proven to be very much behind the curve in containing the epidemic. I think a real lesson for our global politics. The more women leaders, the better. And as this real-time scorecard shows, 17% of world leaders are women. If I click that map, we can see where some of these leaders are in the world as our global map shows up. But we have, just as an example, day-by-day accounts of where women are presidents, prime ministers, and in a different slide, real-time measurements of the parliamentary leaders. So heads of state, women heads of government, women in parliament, and real-time indicators on digital gender divides. If I walk back to the main page, just to continue very briefly, very, very quickly, I will do that. We have near real-time measurements of populations without access to electricity in Africa. We have IMF estimates of fiscal spending on the COVID epidemic. We have new real-time data or near real-time data on carbon dioxide emissions for major regions of the world. We have air quality by the hour. Of course, I think many of you use those data and that's relevant for SDG 11 shown here. We have indicators of temperature anomalies, of course, in our era of climate change. Indicators of deforestation. Indicators real-time of where there are conflicts and protests. Maybe I can pull up that map just to show you. Again, these are maps that are collated by and curated in this case by the armed conflict location and event data project. And we have a world map which is just loading up where you can see and click on conflict zones or protest zones in all over the world that is in this case measured, I think, on a weekly updated basis. So it's an absolutely remarkable data set relevant to SDG 16, which is the SDG for peaceful and inclusive societies. All of this in summary is to say that we are in a new digital age. We depend on this digital age obviously in fighting the pandemic and in achieving universal access to health or to education or to government and in being able to manage the sustainable development goals. Real-time data are made possible in this digital age and we need and are in the midst of, therefore, a great data breakthrough. Please join us in this effort. If you have real-time data or ideas about real-time data, please contact me or contact my colleagues at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Let me conclude by first thanking our partners Esri and National Geographic and all of the partners that are shown here from World Data Lab, World Food Program, Johns Hopkins University, the innovator of the COVID data, the UN agencies and many, many more partners that are key to this shared effort in real-time data. Let me thank the lead of our data work at UN SDSN, Jessica Espy, and to thank the wonderful project manager of SDGs today, Mariam Robbie, for her great work and my and her colleague, this Ismini Etheridge, who's done a great job on helping to get ready for our launch of this website tomorrow. Thank you for the chance to introduce this. I really hope that this is the beginning of a wonderful partnership together in using big data, digital data, remote sensing data, geographic information system data, all that we can now do to dramatically improve our capacity to understand, to measure, and to manage the process to achieve the sustainable development goals. Thank you so much. Looking forward to the rest of the discussion and back to you, Laura. Thank you so much, Jeff. It is my great pleasure, following your wonderful demonstration of the panel, to introduce the next speaker, his Excellency Ambassador Jukka Salivara, the permanent representative of Finland to the United Nations. Thank you so much and thank you Professor Saks for sharing that impressive data set. From my own experience in working for government back home in Finland, I know how important data is for policymaking and when you make data available and the data is relevant and preferably also sort of well well presented, it really has an impact on policymaking. And the other sort of item I was very glad that you mentioned was also gender equality. I'm very happy in working for a female government and I think that's a reflection on the fact that policymaking is inclusive and when policymaking is inclusive, then it usually needs to to much better policy. But dear participants, on my behalf, I would like to warmly welcome you all to this virtual HLTF side event. Finland has been cooperating with the SESN in several projects that aim at more effective data production and use in the context of the 2030 agenda. Data, as previous speakers have underlined, has key importance for successful implementation of the 2030 agenda. We need data to monitor our progress to understand where we are moving forward and where we are lagging behind. The simple truth is that without data we are really flying blind. The international community as well as individual countries face several challenges in the production and use of data for sustainable development. Data coverage is one of the key challenges. We have a robust set of global indicators for the SDGs, but at country level the coverage, meaning the number of indicators on which the data is produced, varies significantly from country to country. Especially developing countries need more support for increasing data coverage. International funding for data and statistics is at only around half the level at which it needs to be. I can just echo what Professor Saks just said about the importance of data, its availability and especially its use. Timeliness is another challenge. As you know, statistical data often represents the situation as it was one year or in many cases two years ago. Political decision makers, on the other hand, strive for real-time data. It is needed for making good decisions and it is needed to show constituencies that decisions are having the desired impacts. I believe that we need two kinds of data, well-verified statistical data, which comes a bit late and real-time data, which sometimes is a bit less accurate. We need both. The third challenge that deserves to be mentioned is the disaggregation of data. The key principle of the 2030 agenda, leave no one behind, is impossible to monitor without disaggregated data. Persons and groups in vulnerable situations are often unrecognized as long as we look at averages. We need to disaggregate to make vulnerable groups visible. But with each disaggregation, the amount of data multiplies and this creates a new challenge for the use of data in decision making. I believe that the SDSN data platform that has been developed in partnership with Esri and National Geographic significantly contributes to resolving the challenges of coverage, timeliness and disaggregation. It is a bold, novel and innovative way to address existing data challenges and I congratulate all three organizations for their efforts. To finish, just of the retapping that the Vienna report of Finland will be presented today, and thanks a lot for already sharing the link to the keynote speech and the actual presentation. We are very proud that our Prime Minister, Sanna Marein, will be presenting it and, as you may know, in Finland the Prime Minister leaves work on sustainable development and has done it for over a quarter of a century. In this Vienna report, which is our second report, we describe Finland's situation on each SDG by using SDG indicators. We also present two assessments of our situation on each SDG. One assessment is made by government officials and the other assessment is made by civil society. I invite you all to take a look at this report, which in our view creates an interesting database dialogue between the government and civil society. We are committed to continuing working on improving database monitoring on SDGs so that we can scale up the implementation of the SDGs based on the best available information. So thank you so much and I'm really glad that we are having this side event. Thank you. Thank you so much Ambassador and I completely agree. Your point was an excellent one that without data we are flying blind and hopefully this new portal and platform is a way to help close some of those coverage gaps that you also mentioned and congratulations again to Finland for the Vienna. We're looking forward to that today. It's my pleasure to turn it over now to Juan Daniel Oviedo who's the director of the administrative department of national statistics for Colombia. Thank you very much for this opportunity. Let me confess that I am very proud to be here sharing these scenarios with Professor Sachs. Somebody from my academic background I admire very much and I'm very excited to be here to listen to his insights and also the insights that were highlighted by Mr. Ambassador. In Colombia we are completely convinced about the strategic role that information has been performing as regards as the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals and we would like to highlight that currently in the pandemic situation we have valued very much the existence of these Sustainable Development Goals because the opportunity of concentrating around 17 objectives and 169 indicators is also an opportunity to target and to prioritize which are going to be the main policies that we have to develop in order to come back to the sustainability role let's say in our socioeconomic development model in our country of Colombia. We believe that in that perspective national statistics officers play an important role because currently we are conscious that we are not only providers of information but we should become data stewards and to illustrate and orientate which kind of information is going to be useful in order to define a sound public policies that could allow our countries to accomplish the 2030 agenda. In the case of Colombia we believe that the opportunity of putting information at the center of the socioeconomic and environmental development model of Colombia is something which is very useful that could be shown as an opportunity to integrate several perspectives about development so in order to have an interdisciplinary approach of which is the type of information that we require and moreover in order to see how are we going to set strategic partnerships in order to allow and use spatial information, mobile information, high-resolution satellite information to be available in order to put them at the same place and to better communicate which are the socioeconomic perspectives of the population. So I would like to share a few slides that we have prepared for this conversation. Maybe in Colombia we understand very much that time data should be produced and disseminated in order to allow the dimensions of sustainable development, the social dimension, the economic dimension and the environmental dimension to be able to be integrated in order to leave no one behind and the main challenges that we are facing there is that metadata is an issue that is almost solved due to the work of the EEG of sustainable development goals that we need to find important ways to effectively disseminate the information that we are producing from the integration between statistical information and geospatial information and there in that perspective we are following in the case of Colombia we are following the model of or the standards that have been set in the last year in order to allow the integration of statistical and geospatial information under which we believe and we are convinced that accessible and usable data should be produced that there should be an statistical and geospatial interpretability of information and that we need to define common geographies for dissemination of statistics and one example which is very important in the current situation of Colombia of this integration of statistical and geospatial information is linked to the fact that taking the opportunity that Colombia has recently performed a population enhancing census more specifically in 2018 thanks to the fact that the information of the population census have been completely georeferenciated and geolocated we were able to integrate the information of the population census with administrative records both civil registration and health and individualized treatment of a public health of every city center of our country and at the same time we managed to integrate information of the population census with a household service and leaving the standards measurement service and thanks to the fact that we were able to integrate this information we managed to develop a in a very fast way a vulnerability index under which we get the population conscious about their risks or the complications that they could face in the case like they could get infected by COVID-19 and we allowed this information to be available to every citizen in our country at a street block level which is something that we are going to show you in a few minutes but at the same time something which is very specific is that this information was very useful in order to define some non-conditional monetary transfers program in order to face the income shock of the households due to the lockdown measures and also to define how we were going to provide poor and vulnerable households a without value added tax reform and also in order to define cash and in time aids given by mayors on governance offices in our country thanks to the opportunity of having this information available at the street block level and that's why currently I'm going to share my google and my website is a screen under which when we go to the main web page of the national statistics office of colombia then we easily go to the main screen which is the vulnerability index that drives us to uh at this year's spatial and statistical information that we could see at this uh at every european area of colombia we could analyze it in this year's spatial information frame for example this is the city of bogota that currently since yesterday is under localized or targeted lockdowns due to the fact that we are getting closer to the peak of the pandemic situation of covid-19 in our country we managed to see bogota at the street block level in the intensity or the distribution at the street block level of the multidimensional poverty index of every household thanks to the fact that the population census and housing census allowed us to get this information and in a in a broader perspective you see that in a more intensive i'm sorry in a in a in a broader perspective of bogota you can see that the southeast of bogota is concentrates a very important population which is under multidimensional poverty and we could see at the very specific level at the street block level which is the intensity of this multidimensional poverty index thanks to the fact that the multidimensional poverty index measures for example overcrowding the existence of elderly population at the households and at the same time thanks to the fact that the information of the population census has been completely identified with the dni of every citizen we could cross the information that we trust but in the population census with the health records and to define the comorbidities of the people which is living at every street block level and thanks to that we could go from the dimension of multidimensional poverty to the covid vulnerability dimension at the street block level under which we can see for example which are the main vulnerabilities of the population due to the fact of the existence of intergenerational households overcrowding situations and the comorbidities associated with a for example a heart issues for example hypertension and for example a smoking indicators of the population so indeed in this perspective we could see bogota in at the dimension of the vulnerability index but at the same time thanks to the fact that we trust this information we could also see in bogota which is the distribution of the elderly population more specifically of the population which is elder than 70 years old population and we could see which are the main street blocks or the main neighborhoods of bogota that are characterized by the incidence of elder population something that you can see at the northeast of the city for example but the more important issue is that in order to have timely information about the success of the lockdown measures thanks to the united nation development program UNDP and the opportunity to work together with the initiative brand data we managed to get mobility information that could allow us to see what was happening with the vulnerability level of bogota and the accomplishment of the lockdown measures in the city and that's why for example I would like to show you that we could see that currently bogota this is the this is the map of bogota currently bogota is under a street a strict lockdown measures in the green areas one of the green areas that you see like san Cristóbal or usme is this san Cristóbal announcement that you are seeing in in this map and we can see thanks to the information of grant data which is the accomplishment of the main measures of the lockdown measures with mobility thanks to the fact that grant data allowed us to get information about a mobility of mobile telephone users at that day frequency since the beginning of the lockdown which was by the end of March and you can see why the mayor of bogota had to start the lockdown measures in this region of the city because you can see that even under the days that we were on the street lockdown in all the city the fact that this part of the city is subject to a strong and multidimensional poverty informality such economic vulnerabilities it was very hard for the population to accomplish the rules of staying at home and not finding something to eat and that's why currently one of the pandemic and concentration points in the city of bogota is in this region and that's why currently we are under a strict lockdown measure in this part of the city this one this was a very simple example of showing how the national statistics office is considering that the linkage of geospatial information and statistical information is vital for sustainable development code but it's also vital to allow our statistical offices to become data stewards and allow policymakers to take smart decisions at a timely at the timely basis thank you very much thank you so much Juan Daniel that was a very exciting platform to see beautiful visualizations and again I really applaud Colombia for making so much data publicly available which is another thing that we're seeing lots of interest about in the chat lots of people calling for better transparency and access to data it is now my pleasure to turn it over to Carmel Terro and Carmel I'm going to pull up your slides right now and we should be all set okay thank you very much Dr. Sacks Ambassador Salavara and distinguished guests I want to thank you for the opportunity to share some observations and insights that I've noted over the last 27 years working to support geographic information systems or GIS enabled solutions for sustainable development I first walked the halls at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in 1993 while working at UNITAR and GIS was just becoming a technology adopted by UN agencies and member states in 2000 I was so inspired by the good intentions of the MDGs and the advancements in geospatial technology over the last two decades since have been remarkable as I'm not getting any younger we really need to see progress with the SDGs by 2030 not a day goes by that I did not think about the lives livelihoods and the health of our planet which rely on our actions today and will also be impacted by our inactions today I will share with you three current issues that our globe is grappling with and how timely accessible and open data is so critical to finding the solutions needed to overcome these challenges and to achieve the SDGs so consider next slide so consider SDGs three and six in the context of the WHO recommendation of hand washing to stop the spread of COVID access to water sanitation and hygiene known as wash is an SDG six which is clean water and sanitation data indicator that will lead to good health and well being which is SDG three SDG data indicator six point two in particular helps us to identify wash infrastructure that needs to be immediately addressed in order to stop the spread of the pandemic as UN habitat notes access to affordable or free water and soap is a minimum government obligation during this crisis add data on vulnerable populations which UNFPA recently stood up in their COVID-19 population vulnerability application and you can determine who might have difficulties accessing hand washing facilities due to disability or where the priority development interventions need to be made to implement wash infrastructure sustainable development goals three and six are clearly inter interconnected and need timely data to address them next slide SDGs five and 10 are clearly are sorry are creating about about creating balance and opportunity let's all commit to doing better in promoting women and those facing discrimination for any reason we need to do more than simply celebrate diversity as a geographer I can assure you that no one has control over where they popped up on this planet so it is time to turn our good fortune into opportunities for an empowerment of others we need to mentor youth be inclusive in every meeting and let's share the data that reveals opportunities to celebrate the quality and progress such as SDG 5.5 that shows even greater than 50 of the parliamentarians are women and their member states of Bolivia Spain Granada and Rwanda it's quite remarkable sustainable development goals five and 10 are clearly interconnected and need spatially referenced statistics like that presented by the folks at Dane and that population housing census data in order to address them next slide lastly another issue facing our globe today is the possible hunger crisis as desert locusts destroyed crops and the livelihoods of millions with 20.2 million people facing severe acute food insecurity in east Africa alone we need to monitor in real time some of the key SDG 2 data indicators such as food price anomalies and prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity if the current situation does not improve FAO notes that desert locusts can pose a threat to the livelihoods of 10 of percent of the world's population as they are predicted to spread towards India and Pakistan how do we use the data that we have today to predict and monitor extreme weather events such as the cyclones in 2018 that enabled the breeding of the locusts in the Arabian Peninsula in the Horn of Africa and how do we ensure that the outputs of that analysis will be understood by decision makers at the highest levels of government sustainable development goals 2 and 13 are clearly interconnected and we need timely data to address them I want to conclude with two points open data needs to be more than a policy it needs to be a practice please use the technologies like Esri's ArcGIS hub that exist to provide data in a variety of formats and to annual reporting of SDG indicators as mentioned earlier does not enable timely data-driven decision making we need to pivot to making data available at the velocity demanded by our rapidly changing world you will notice that I've not discussed geography and GIS extensively with these examples but in fact all of the applications by UN Habitat Iraq the WK Kellogg Foundation UNFPA and certainly SDSN that are highlighted are indeed powered by GIS many of the SDG data indicators are spatial and temporal in nature and to integrate data spatially and temporally will help us to understand how these issues are interconnected and to create more holistic and durable solutions to our global challenges in conclusion I'm excited by the SDGs today global hub and I applaud the data contributors who are enabling greater understanding and decision making on many topics of global and regional importance the GIS training resources being developed for the hub will also educate the next generation of geospatially literate thinkers just as we need to build out the wash infrastructure we also need to build out the geospatial infrastructure and collaborate the future looks bright if we can stay focused on the goals share the data and build holistic development solutions thank you thank you so much for that wonderful presentation Carmel and I think it's really inspiring to see how GIS tools can especially be used to look at some of these inter linkages and inter dependencies between different SDGs which is something that I think maybe some traditional statistical methods don't always capture we have just a couple of minutes to go to some questions so I'm going to suggest that I maybe pose one question to each of our three panelists before I turn it over back to a professor sacks for some closing remarks I mean I do the questions and then we'll take the answers in the order in which I'm asking I'm going to start with Juan Daniel Oviedo we have a lot of questions asking how the data portal that you've developed for Bogota is used in policymaking and how well versed your policy makers and people who are implementing projects are in understanding analyzing and interpreting the data and different ways that you're sort of putting that into practice on the ground for Carmel we have lots of questions around why GIS skills are important and different tools and resources for building up GIS skills so maybe we can have a quick response from you on what Esri is doing for sort of that capacity building around GIS skills and any linkages to the new platform that can help that and for the honorable ambassador we're getting questions about are there any efforts from countries to make the data in voluntary national reviews publicly accessible people are saying that a lot of them contain really valuable data and not always is it sort of an official SDG indicator that is publicly reported so I know you probably can't speak to every country but given that Finland is doing their VNR as we speak momentarily maybe you could comment on that about different efforts you have made to make that data publicly available so brief responses again we'll start with Juan Daniel. Okay thank you and we understand that the fact that we are able to to have these integration of information is a very important opportunity that could invite other countries and more specifically developing countries and middle income countries in order to think seriously about their responsibility of integrating the information of population census with household surveys and administrative records this is something which stands at the principle in order to orientate or illustrate public policy currently taking into account that we managed to perform the calculation of the multidimensional poverty index at the street block level for every municipality which are a thousand hundred two municipalities in Colombia this was something that played an important role in the design of the local or subnational development plans in Colombia the political cycle at the subnational level started at the beginning of this year in 2020 and that was a great coincidence because we had the opportunity to offer to every mayor and to every governor that had been elected for these four years period the information of the multidimensional poverty index and firstly in the pandemic situation they asked us the information and they consulted the information and these geovisors that we were open and that we put into availability of every city in our country because with the intensity of the multidimensional poverty index at the street block level firstly they could perform a very targeted in kind aids for example humanitarian groceries and essential health health instruments that could be useful in order to prevent the contagion of the COVID-19 so what we believe is that a multidimensional poverty index could be a strategic tool in order to orientate a very sound public policies that could allow our population to advance in the 2030 agenda but this requires the integration between geospatial information population censuses and household surveys with administrative records which stands at the main priority of national and statistics offices currently at the United Nations Statistical Commission thank you very much thank you so much Carmel thank you so why are GIS skills important GIS is of course geographic information systems and as geography is the most integrative science that I can think of where we're bringing everything together for managing a given place or understanding a given place it is really important to have people be able to integrate spatial and non-spatial data pull it together and understand the implications of what is happening both socially environmentally as well as economically in a given location through this platform through SDGs today there'll be a number of resources developed you can also find today some resources that we have focused on the SDGs such as developing SDG 3.3.3 around malaria incidents at the learn.arcgis.com website and I'll put that in the link in a moment so we have a number of learning resources that are free and available to anyone we also have a number of MOOCs if you'd like to take it a step further and really get into analytics and map making so there's a number of resources both on the learn lessons and the MOOCs of Esri as we build out the SDG specific resources through the SDGs today platform there'll be more and more specific information on how to develop indicators and integrate GIS and spatial thinking into finding our solutions for the SDGs that's great thank you so much and SDSN we are huge fans of MOOCs so I hope a lot of the people on the line check those out and back to the ambassador for our final question on making voluntary national review data more public thank you so much and I may not be the best expert on the issue in a way that I can't provide your global answer but I can tell that in for instance in Finland the data is sort of publicly and easily available and I remember a debate we had sort of some 10-15 years ago when I was working the Prime Minister's office on on sort of our digital development and the fact was then in a way that sort of all different administrations had huge data sets but they were usually sort of behind a sort of pay barrier because different administrations were encouraged to sort of find different income streams but then it was decided in a way that it makes sense to make this information well widely available and for free to encourage it sort of application and free use so I can only say that for Finland and then but I just and but I can say that this is a good model and I would encourage others to adopt it as well thank you thank you thank you so much and hopefully Finland can be an example too as you say all the other countries that haven't yet made such strides in making their data public it's a pleasure so much thank you our three panelists and I will turn it back to professor sacks for some closing remarks and final thoughts before we sign off thank you very much I think it's clear that Finland is a role model for the world it has continued year after year to be number one in world happiness which is I think a very crucial point of inspiration and leadership for us and no doubt having such a fantastic prime minister young woman leader prime minister Maren is part of that well-being and I also want to congratulate Finland for containing the pandemic Finland's performance in COVID-19 has been extraordinary and exemplary and I was just looking at the website this moment Finland has kept the effective reproduction rate of the epidemic another real-time indicator of whether the epidemic is being contained or whether it's spreading it's kept the effective reproduction rate less than one meaning that the epidemic has been suppressed since April 20th this is why there are few cases and why Finland has been able to surmount this in a way that sadly the United States and many other countries have not to date another woman leader that I would like to shout out is the mayor of Bogota Claudia Lopez Hernandez another fantastic mayor and woman leader in the world and clearly a driving force also in the fantastic work that we heard from Juan Daniel Oviedo that is so so remarkable and useful the tools that you've made and I think everyone watching and there are a lot of people watching I will say oh we have to follow along in that but congratulations to you on those innovations I think it's always important to remember as well that it is Colombia that gave us the sustainable development goals idea it was back in 2012 that the government of Colombia said to the world we need sustainable development goals so I thank Colombia for that breakthrough always this is really a fantastic gift for the whole world and Carmel and Esri I want to thank you for this fantastic inspiration and partnership and also your point about needing to understand GIS as a basic tool for understanding our world we are going to be doing everything we can at UN SDSN to promote the learning of GIS tools your great innovator Jack Dangervon who invented GIS in its modern form has given such a powerful tool for the world and when I was in school we didn't have it yet we didn't know and so my generation of economists thought that countries are arrayed in alphabetical order we didn't know that they were arrayed spatially so we didn't have geographic insights we looked at tables but we did not look at maps and we are absolutely in need of looking at maps to understand the interconnections of our world one of the ways to look at maps is through stories and one of Esri's innovations is story maps which is a way to talk about geographic information Esri and the UN sustainable development solutions network will be hosting a competition for schools for students to make story maps this will be launched in August of this year watch the website sdgs today to learn about the competition and we're expecting some fantastic presentations and story maps produced by students around the world using our GIS and other geospatial tools so that's something very very exciting I want to thank in closing also the UN statistics division and it's a fantastic director Stefan Schreinfest for all the leadership of the UN on the side of data remote sensing GIS working with the UN statistical commission and the national statistical agencies this is fantastic work to ensure that the whole world is adopting developing and advancing new tools of data and the UN statistics division is a fantastic partner in this our work is not a formal UN work and not formal UN data but it is in partnership and complementary to the great work of the UN statistics division in closing let me thank all of the viewers we have a decade to make the SDGs real time is short the current crisis is intense last week we released the SDG index report showing how COVID is a huge threat to all of us obviously and to the SDGs the data portal SDGs today includes all of the information of the SDG index so you can bring yourself up to date on the index as well but please join us in this effort to accelerate progress to the SDGs through the use of new and real-time data please give us suggestions for the new SDGs today.org website it is definitely just in its early phase it needs global partnership we really look to all of you for advice suggestions and contributions to this new shared tool for all of us in closing let me thank all of you for participating thank you again ambassador Solovara for hosting us today and looking forward to continued efforts together in this great challenge and opportunity for the world and Lauren back to you to close thanks so much I think that's it thank you one more time to all of our wonderful panelists and we look forward to working with everyone in the decade of action and hope everybody checks out the portal have a great rest of your day everyone thank you thank you