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Thai-China Seminar #3: Strengthening Thailand-China’s Collaboration on Big Data for the Sustainable Development Goals

The Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR) initiated in 2016 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to improve environmental monitoring, promote data sharing and support policymaking using big data including Earth observation data. With a strong regional collaboration, DBAR has committed to put its research effort on investigating indices and indicators to feed […]

Big Earth Data for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This webinar featured lectures on four SDGs: SDG 2 – Zero hunger | Big Earth Data in Support of Sustainable Crop Production System by Dr. Lijun Zuo, Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences SDG 6 – Clean water & sanitation | Surface water quality monitoring and assessment using remote sensing by Prof. Junsheng Li, […]

International Conference Thailand & The Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of International Agencies

This conference offered an opportunity to learn about the approaches and programs supported by international agencies in support of Thailand’s implementation of the SDGs. Representatives from a broad spectrum of international agencies with offices in Thailand described about how their programs contribute to the achievement of the SDGs in Thailand and, in cases where these […]

International Conference Thailand & The Sustainable Development Goals: Learning and Boosting Implementation Together

This Conference aims to (i) raise awareness of SDGs among Thai stakeholders, especially concerning follow-up and review mechanisms; (ii) review the state of Thailand’s SDG implementation; (iii) identify Thailand’s priority SDG goals, current data gaps, and potential approaches for strengthening follow-up and review, including proxy indicators and data sources; (iv) identify priority research areas; and […]