UN Water Conference Side Event Promotion

UN 2023 Water Conference Side EventBig Earth Data: A Game Changer to Promote Implementation SDG 618:30-19:45 (UTC-5), March 23Side Event Room 8, United Nations Headquarters in New York Lead organization: International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) Organizing partnersInternational Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS)Land and Water Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO Land & Water)World Meteorological Organization (WMO)Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO-IHP)Global Water Partnership (GWP)International Water Resources Association (IWRA)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design, Ministry of Water Resources, China (GIWP) Short DescriptionThe data required for monitoring and evaluation of the existing SDG 6 indicator system mainly depends on the submission or confirmation of member states. Due to the differences in monitoring capabilities and the wide variety of data management methods adopted by different countries, there are unintended gaps in indicator data introducing variety of missing data or data discontinuity challenges in a broad, large scale, and in comparative analysis of the real progress of the targets and indicators for different global sub regions, thus impacting the timing and direction of policy intervention. As a collective of multiple active data sources such as space earth observation, ground observation network and mobile internet, and big data analysis methods and technologies including contemporary and novel techniques such as machine learning, deep learning, and cloud computing technologies, big earth data can help to provide solutions to these data and information challenges. Therefore, it has the potential to provide unique advantages to the progress towards the realization of global SDG 6. The call to leverage big earth data has further been emphasized by UNESCO through its 9th Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP IX 2022-2029) Strategic Plan on ‘Science for a Water Secure World in a Changing Environment’. IHP-IX emphasizes on the use of new monitoring techniques, and in particular, the latest ICT technologies, remote sensing and big data, which offer exciting opportunities for observing and modelling hydrological processes across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The plan further envisions that citizen science initiatives and research projects may add to the big data available already through open science and open access initiatives which further promotes the implementation SDG 6.Objectives1) To discuss and promote recent advances and challenges in big earth data sciences and highlight its potential for supporting research and policy towards implementation of SDG 6; 2) To provide discussion opportunities for promoting engagement and foster multidisciplinary sciences to cooperate in facilitating innovative breakthrough in big earth data implementation for SDG 6, and forming new partnership and collaboration mechanism. Expected resultsThe session will allow experts to exchange ideas to help develop a proposed framework for implementation of big earth data sciences in the 2023-2028 water action agenda to improve it as an enabling tool to realize SDG 6 globally. Based on deliberations during the side event, a joint working group for SDG 6 indicator monitoring and evaluation will be established that will work to develop open big earth data product. A cooperative mechanism for future international collaborative work will be identified afterwards.The related voluntary commitments for the Water Action AgendaA voluntary commitment for the Water Action Agenda entitled as SDG 6 Data and Information Service System (SDG6-DISS) based on Big Earth Data has been approved and published at: https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/sdg-6-data-and-information-service-system-sdg6-diss-based-big-earth-data. AgendaOpening remarks (10’)    Huadong Guo, Honorary President of ISDE, Director General of CBAS (5’)TBD, UNDESA (5’)Keynote presentations and comments (15’)Shanlong Lu, Global and regional SDG 6 data sets based on Big Earth Data, CBAS (5’)TBD, Progress on change in water-use efficiency, Land & Water, FAO (5’)Invited comments (5’)Panel discussion (35’)Lifeng Li, Land & Water, FAOTBD, WMOTBD, UNESCO-IHP TBD, GWPYuanyuan Li, IWRA & GIWPLi Jia, CBASTBD, ICIMODHuadong Guo, ISDE & CBASOpen discussion and wrap-up (15’) Digital Earth istarshine_translate: 联合国水上会议赛事促销 None