PARIS21 in the news

• Why the SDGs are Dangerous (Huffington Post)

• Who will lead development's big data revolution? (Devex)

• Data 'crucial' to eradicating poverty (The Guardian)

• Measuring discrimination will bring the gender equality global goal a step closer (The Guardian)

• GPS for the SDGs (Huffington Post)

• Governments, Civil Society Groups, Businesses, International Organizations, and Experts Join Forces to Launch the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (prweb.com)

• ‘Data for SDGs: Will the Global Partnership Deliver for Low-Income Countries? (Center for Global development)

• New partnership for development data launches at UN summit (StatsLife)

SDGs

• Reflections on global economic governance at the “start of a new era” (ictsd.org)

• Capturing the “can do” spirit of the Sustainable Development Summit (OECD Observer)

• Civil Society Recommends SDG Indicators (sd.iisd.org)

• 4 reasons companies should invest in sustainable development (WEF)

Post 2015, Data Revolution and more

• From Rhetoric to Reality: Decisive Action Needed on Development Goals (IMF)

• Beyond Data: Leadership, Values, and the Data Revolution (Development Gateway)

• Post-2015 resources round-up (Post 2015)

• Ending Poverty Needs Better Data (Open Data Watch)

• e-Smile : data to the people (newschallenge.org)

• Five reasons why ending poverty will be tougher than halving it has been (Development Initiatives)

• Open Data Gaining Momentum in Africa (World Bank)

• Unlocking results for children with data (UNICEF)

• Comment: What would a paid data future look like? (Open Data Institute)

• Describing poverty is no substitute for producing hard evidence to help end it (The Guardian)

• Good data can help diagnose the health of cities around the world (The Guardian)

Report

• Ready to Measure: Twenty Indicators for Monitoring SDG Gender Targets (DataX2)

Event

• World Statistics Day 2015 (20 October 2015)

• International Conference on Big Data for Official Statistics (Abu Dhabi, UAE / 20-22 October 2015)

From Social Media

Carlos Lopes (@ECA_Lopes),  Executive Secretary, UNECA:  “#Data will be essential in modelling the social and environmental consequences of economic policies. #Datarevolution”

Angel Gurría (@A_Gurria), Secretary General of the  of the @OECD : “We need better measures of well-being to design better policies for better lives http://www.oecd-5wf.mx/  #OECD #OECD5WF”