GIS Software Leader Speaks on COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goals
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Jo Ann Pruchniewski
Public Relations, Esri
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Email: jpruchniewski@esri.com
REDLANDS, Calif.-Thursday 9 July 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Esri,
the world leader in GIS, location intelligence, and mapping technology,
today announced that its founder and president, Jack Dangermond,
addressed the United Nations’ High Level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development. His remarks to the assembly were delivered July 7th at the key annual meeting for UN and Member State review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally.
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The
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 goals with
169 targets that all 191 UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve
by the year 2030. Even as the global community has come together to
battle a raging pandemic, it continues to face multiple complex issues
all related to the SDGs. The response to COVID-19 has demonstrated the
power of data and technology to increase organizations’ effectiveness
and impact. Esri users, such as Johns Hopkins University and thousands
of other governments and organizations around the globe, have seen
firsthand how spatial analysis can help them use that data to take
meaningful action.
“We
have seen how the global community can come together to address the
immense challenges of COVID-19,” said Dangermond. “My personal belief is
that one of the most important things we can do as a society at this
particular time is to help bring the nations of the world together to
collaborate on and measure the progress of our collective work toward
the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Over
the past several years, Esri has worked with the UN and its member
countries to establish a global network of SDG data hubs referred to as
the “Federated Information System for the SDGs (FIS4SDGs).” The FIS4SDGs
seeks to create a system of systems for nations of the world and the UN
to report on and monitor progress towards the SDGs. Esri has invested
in this partnership by providing its ArcGIS platform to least-developed
countries for the collection, management, monitoring, and use of
sustainable development goals data, as well as technical support
services to the UN and participating member states.
This
effort requires not just technology but also capacity building, so that
within individual nations, support and training programs can be
established and strengthened to help countries organize their data
geographically, visualize it, and connect it into the global FIS4SDGs
system. Through this effort, individual countries can contribute to
global reporting on progress towards a sustainable future.
To learn more about location intelligence and solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals, visit: esri.com/en-us/solutions/industries/sustainability/sustainable-development/goals.
About Esri
Esri,
the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS)
software, location intelligence, and mapping, offers the most powerful
geospatial cloud available, to help customers unlock the full potential
of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969,
Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations including
90 of the Fortune 100 companies, all 50 state governments, more than
half of all counties (large and small), and 87 of the Forbes Top 100
Colleges in the US, as well as all 15 Executive Departments of the US
Government and dozens of independent agencies. With its pioneering
commitment to geospatial information technology, Esri engineers the most
advanced solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things
(IoT), and advanced analytics. Visit us at esri.com.
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Contacts
Jo Ann Pruchniewski
Public Relations, Esri
Mobile: 301-693-2643
Email: jpruchniewski@esri.com