The United Nations and Open Data

نویسندگان

  • Donald Cowan
  • Paulo Alencar
  • Doug Mulholland
  • Fred McGarry
  • Colin Mayfield
چکیده

The United Nations through the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has embarked on a number of projects related to the environment and supported by freely available data akin to open data. These projects all use a common knowledge platform called Knowledge Integration and Management United Nations University (KIM-UNU) developed by the University of Waterloo Computer Systems Group (UWCSG) and the Centre for Community Mapping COMAP). This paper describes the platform and its use in these specific projects on international water (IW:Science), sustainable land management (KM:Land) and safe water provisioning (HydroSanitas). Keywords—United Nations, environment, knowledge management, open data

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تاریخ انتشار 2017