TReNDS: Data and Statistics for Sustainable Development
SDSN’s Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS) convenes cross-sector technical and policy knowledge from across the global scientific, development, public and private sector data communities. Its members are leaders whose expertise spans the spectrum of global and national data policies, standards, and processes that guide data production, access, and use. The multi-disciplinary network aims to be an agile advisory group: a conduit for both high-level and grassroots ideas to be vetted, processed at an expert level, and widely disseminated. TReNDS also provides members with unique peer group exchange at the highest level. TReNDS operates independently from, but in concert with, the formal UN system and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The Network focuses on inclusion of academic and technical partners as active participants in setting standards and agendas, while its small size and independence enables it to act quickly to spotlight challenges and opportunities within the field of sustainable development data, as they occur.
From original thought leadership, to advising and convening opportunities, to catalytic resources for pilot initiatives and critical evaluation of those pilots, TReNDS aims to contribute critical insights and to offer technical and policy-oriented solutions on the rapidly evolving sustainable development data ecosystem.