DBAR Professional Training Program on “Utilizing Big Earth Data to Enhance SDG Research, Monitoring and Reporting in Thailand and Southeast Asia”

The Professional Training Program on “Utilizing Big Earth Data to Enhance SDG Research, Monitoring and Reporting in Thailand and Southeast Asia” will be in held 29-31 May, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.
 
The Digital Belt and Road program (DBAR) was initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016, which is aiming to improve environmental monitoring, promote data sharing and support policymaking using big data of Earth observations in the Belt and Road regions. In 2021, the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) was launched to foster the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which DBAR is affiliated with, to benefit and extent its facilitations and capability to a larger audience, especially for the Belt and Road regions.
 
Having a strong institutional support and expert team by DBAR/CBAS and the regional collaborators, DBAR has committed to put its research effort on investigating indices and indicators to feed into the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and deliver an open access data platform for the researchers, policymakers and the public for tracking and studying the development and changes in the Belt and Road Region.
 
The training program is jointly organized by Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR), National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), DBAR International Center of Excellence (ICoE-Bangkok), and the Belt and Road Research Center of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT-BRRC), aims to introduce the principles and cases of utilizing Big Earth Data in SDGs monitoring and progress reporting and to promote the data resources and facilities of DBAR in terms of implementation for GDI, and UN SDGs. It will build on the capacity and network of knowledge professionals, practitioners, and managers applying Big Earth data for SDG study and reporting in Thailand and the ASEAN region.
 
Training Program Curriculum
Module 1: Introduction to DBAR program and the resources and facilities in supporting SDGs
Module 2: Data availability, products, application and research cases on different SDGs
Module 3: Data management and data sharing standards
Module 4: Open discussion and sharing on regional data needs and potential applications in Thailand and ASEAN countries
 
DBAR Secretariat:
Prof. Yubao QIU Secretary-General,
International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS)
Email: qiuyb@radi.ac.cn
 
Ms. Jiarui TIAN Administrative Officer
International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS)
Email: jrtian@cbas.ac.cn

 
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