29. June 2020

In a series of tweets today, the Foundation welcomed the launch of the new data strategy by the UN Secretary General. As we noted on Twitter, the new data strategy echoes and embraces a number of guiding principles & core pillars of the UN Crisis Information Management Strategy that the Foundation supported and facilitated for close upon a decade, from 2007 to 2016.

As documents pegged to the process over nearly ten years clearly bring out, as well as the systemwide stocking at the UN done in 2017 also underscores, data was considered to be at the very heart of the UN’s mission and mandate.

A note penned to UN Assistant Secretary-General Fabrizio Hochschild after a meeting held at the UN Secretariat in New York in early 2018 also clearly spelt out the importance of data as well as how, at the operational, planning and management levels, it could play a role, including in crisis preparedness, management and response.

The Foundation looks forward to working with colleagues at the UN, many of who were part of the Crisis Information Management process, and now also co-lead this new data strategy.