Data Act Lab

23/12/2023

Lillejulafton och Somalia’s banbrytande Goaltracker har just lanserats i Mogadishu av den somaliska regeringen. Verktyget gör det möjligt att tracka alla finansiella flöden till Somalia kopplat till de globala hållbarhetsmålen. Jag hade hoppats att kunna ta mig till Mogadishu för lanseringen idag men blev svårt få till all säkerhetsordning, så nu fick det bli per zoomlänk från Lamu istället. Gick bra trots powecuts!

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13/12/2023

Många intressanta diskussioner på AUs möte för statistik chefer från alla hörn i Afrika! Hur harmonisera data och statistik på denna kontinent? Hur mäta uppföljning av utveckling på nationell, regional, kontinental och global nivå? Tre dagars debatt!

25/10/2017

Så ska de Globala målen nås!

SVT Forum sänder ifrån konferensen på Filantropiskt Forum: Agenda 2030 "Så ska de Globala målen nås" som hölls i förra veckan.

Jag pratar ca 55 min in i programmet tillsammans med tidigare vice generalsekreterare i FN Jan Eliasson, kabinettsekreterare Annika Söder, och gd för Formas, Ingrid Pettersson samt många fler om vad olika aktörer kan göra för att bidra till att FNs mål om hållbar utveckling ska nås.

Filantropi, förändringskraft och forskning

10/10/2017

Our founder speaking at the Axfountion event in Stockholm today. Showing facts on the Swedish foreign aid and the difference between where money is spent vs where money is needed, using our tool to visualize.

25/07/2017

Did you know we helped the Gates Foundation visualize financial flows to 150+ countries? Our founder speaks briefly about that project in this video. https://youtu.be/XSmKrREoVIk

27/06/2017

We helped our partner Brookings institute map rural hunger around the world, another project financed by the Gates Foundation. http://bit.ly/2qKdfuE

Ending Rural Hunger. Ending Rural Hunger is a toolkit to assess each countries' global efforts to end hunger by 2030 (SDG2). The online platform contains data on FNS needs, policies and resources across 116 countries and merges these results with an assessment of how 29 developed countries' ...

30/05/2017

Can we save the Oceans? And how can we get up to speed on reaching the Global Goals by 2030?

Exciting Agenda 2030 Conference today Medelhavsmuseet with Swedish Minister for Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin and Jakob Granit explaining why we need to save the oceans today, not tomorrow. Jan Eliasson, former Deputy Secretary General to the UN debated on the need for multilateralism to solve global problems. And I was honored to present Data Act Lab's work on building a digital tool to track the Global Goals in Colombia! Moderated by Henrik Hammargren, Executive Director of Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. , ,

30/05/2017

View a few samples of our recent work, making important data visible and actionable. http://bit.ly/2qKgqCA

20/05/2017

An exciting week coming to an end! Starting off with the Swedish Government's presentation of its work on Agenda 2030, followed by the Swedish Government'presentation of its work on Financing For Development. I finally presented Data Act Lab s initiative to build a digital tool to track both Agendas at country level! Tracking data on the SDGs along side financial data, starting off with Colombia. Presentation Ministry for Foreign Affairs, together with Colombia's Ambassador to Sweden!

17/05/2017

Excited to be . More than 4 billion people, mostly in developing countries, still don’t have access to the internet!

This means that over half of the world’s population is missing out on the life-changing benefits of connectivity, from financial services to health and education and freedom of information. 3/4 of these people live in 20 countries, many of them in Subsaharan Africa.

15/05/2017

Got five minutes? Here’s a short video about Data Act Lab and our founder Alexandra Silfverstolpe Tolstoy, how professor Hans Rosling helped us get going, how we with funding from the Gates Foundation visualized financial flows to more than 150 countries and what we’re working on now: an ambitions attempt to help countries globally track and visualize implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals - starting off with Colombia! https://youtu.be/XSmKrREoVIk

DataActLab founder Alexandra Silfverstolpe talks about her journey to create DataActLab with the help of late Hans Rosling.