#data for development

It acts as a forum for strategic planning, sharing lessons learned and best practices, providing foresight about critical trends in STI in key sectors of the economy, the environment and society, and drawing attention to emerging and disruptive technologies.

Every year, the commission has two priority themes, for the twenty-seventh session, these are:

- Theme 1: Data for Development. - Theme 2: Global cooperation in science, technology and innovation for development.

The Commission will also review the progress made in the implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society at the regional and international levels; and hear presentations on ongoing science, technology and innovation policy reviews.

Participants will include representatives of Governments, international organizations, civil society and the private sector.

Watch the Opening Plenary - 27th Session, Commission on Science and Technology for Development!

Way back at the end of May, Chirag Mehta wrote about some of the results from Orange's Data for Development challenge.

Records of 2.5 billion calls, exchanged between 5 million anonymised users in the African country of Ivory Coast over a 5 month period. And Orange wanted to know what developers could do with the data set.