Event: 'Resolutions' webinar, 22nd Feb 2023

 
Text (top left corner): Data for Children Collaborative. The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Futures Institute. Text (middle) Resolutions. Right: a circular picture of three children holding hands, with a sun coming up behind them.

As the Data for Children Collaborative transitions from our initial start up phase, we gathered our partners, colleagues and stakeholders for an overview of what we have achieved and our plans for the future. Our network spans across the third sector, academia, public sector, private sector, funders, strategic partners and data partners - and we welcomed all of these key contributors to this discussion.

At this Resolutions Webinar, we talked about new beginnings and the lessons learnt in our pursuit to collaborate with data, with expertise and with methods to improve children around the globe's futures.


Agenda:

Scene setting – Positioning our transition from a partnership model to a specialist unit within the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, continuing to deliver projects with UNICEF and Scottish Government while allowing for broader collaborations.

Our Climate Change Project – an example of truly transdisciplinary global work with visible real-world impact for children.

Our Population Project - an example of exploratory research with strong end-user collaboration to continously improve the outputs of machine learning models across countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Our Project with The Promise – an example of a Scottish project creating a data map, but thinking differently about data by focusing on children first.

Q&A and discussion throughout.


Speakers:

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-founder & Chief of Research & Development, The GovLab at New York University

Chris Speed, Director, The Edinburgh Futures Insitute, The University of Edinburgh

Lucinda Rivers, Director, UNICEF UK in Scotland

Alex Hutchison, Director, Data for Children Collaborative

Fraser Macdonald, Head of Delivery and Innovation, Data for Children Collaborative

Sian Henley, Reader in Marine Science, The University of Edinburgh

Sophie Lee, Climate Change Consultant, UNICEF HQ

Viviana Cannon, Partnerships Manager, UNICEF HQ

Sohan Seth, Lead Data Scientist, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

Celeste Berteau, Doing Data Differently Manager

David Eccles, Co-founder, Wallscope


Event Recording

 
 

More about the projects we talked about

 

A short explainer video aimed at young people: Every Child Deserves a Liveable Planet:







 
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