Members of the Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data/ the Kenyan GVT – The National Partnership on Sustainable Development Data and the broader public will host a “data hackathon” in early December bringing together policy makers, data scientists, and web developers. Our aim will be to kickstart new ways to source, analyze, and share data for sustainable development. This event will be a pilot, which if a success will provide the basis for replicable events an on ongoing basis during the 15 year lifespan of the goals. The event will be hosted in Kenya School of Government and the Laico Regency where directors of listed departments of GVT agencies and organizations working in the theme areas will share their status documents. This will also enable the results of the INNOVA to be shared publicly at a time when the world’s attention will be focused on these new goals. Advocacy and media groups are planning a campaign to reach 2 million people. During the INNOVA, leaders from the government, the World Bank and non-governmental organizations will present specific data challenges they face in terms of measuring and achieving the SDG targets as related to the mission of their program or organization. Participants will be invited to propose and prototype novel, experimental approaches to address such gaps. For instance, they may attack issues in: Analysis: Identify new correlations or patterns by matching previously separate datasets Sourcing: Identify novel ways to apply data from publically available sources such as satellite imagery or cell phone databases to answer previously-unknowable questions Presentation: Find ways to make new and existing datasets more accessible and usable to the public, such as via web dashboards or maps
