“Organising Monitoring of SDG based on the three principles (transparency, inclusiveness, participation) and following wikipedia methods using ground truth ICT techniques”

“Organising Monitoring of SDG based on the three principles (transparency, inclusiveness, participation) and following wikipedia methods using ground truth ICT techniques” panel organised by Raymond Saner during the 2018 ITU-WSIS conference.

The organizer first explained the 2030 Agenda's description of evaluation and monitoring of the SDGs by national and subnational governments. As a next step, the method of ground truth was presented as possible approach to organise monitoring based on the 2030 Agenda's principles which are transparency, inclusiveness and participation. Panels subsequently presented their views as to how monitoring could be organised using ground truth methods such as wikipedia or other ICT based interactive methods. Questions from the floor were encouraged to broaden and deepen the discussion at the same time. As a second step, a case example of a LDC was given and panelists described their use of the Ground Trust Method. The panellists were Prof Raymond Saner, Director Diplomacy Dialogue, CSEND, Geneva, Dr Lichia Saner Yiu, President, CSEND, Geneva, Mrs Barbara Rosen Jacobson, Research & Project Associate and Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque, head of IFRC Community Engagement Unit. The session was moderated by Mrs Beris Gwynn, founder of INCITARE, Coppet, VD, Switzerland.