There is a central global inequality which hampers progress towards development. At the moment, we know the least about the people who have the least. But these are the people who need the world’s attention the most. Turning global or national aspirations to end poverty into real changes in people’s lives will involve knowing more about how the poorest people live, and improving their ability to access and use data.
The Cartagena Data Festival, a three day festival in Colombia, is being organised by ODI, Africa Gathering, CEPEI, Data-Pop Alliance, PARIS21, UNDP and UNFPA. The event will focus on solving critical gaps in coverage, access and analysis of data, thereby contributing to the global effort to drive progress in the post-2015 agenda.
Conference objectives:
- Drive the changes that are needed to advance a data revolution by bringing together the people and organisations whose innovations, resources, expertise and influence can make them happen
- Develop concrete solutions and practical tools to produce long term and sustainable progress through a data revolution
- Build the ideas, innovations and partnerships needed to monitor the sustainable development goals
The Cartagena Data Festival will bring together 300 participants from across the world – including government representatives, civil society organisations, technical innovators, academics and data activists – to join the global conversation and ensure the data revolution is informed by perspectives at every level.
The event comes nearly one year before the start date for new global goals to inspire and monitor progress towards ending poverty and setting the world on a more sustainable course. While the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals for the Post-2015 agenda has been largely a job for governments and those who advise and support them, implementing them will require much broader constituencies and more creative coalitions. In Cartagena, we will aim to build the ideas, innovations and relationships that will be needed to monitor the goals and enable them to be met. Partner organisations with specialised knowledge and networks are developing the programmes for different tracks, which will run in parallel during the event offering something of value to each and every attendee.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Plenary 1 - Alicia Eggert, TED Fellow
Data Art - Angelina Fisher, Professor, NYU School of Law
Accountability and citizen engagement - Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA
Plenary 3 - Anoush Tatevossian, Strategic Communications & Partnerships Manager, UN Global Pulse
Big Data - Attila Hancioglu, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) Global Coordinator, UNICEF
Counting what counts - Becca Furst-Nichols, Program Officer, United Nations Foundation
Counting what counts - Bitange Ndemo, Honorary Chairperson, Alliance for Affordable Internet, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications, Kenya
Plenary 1 - Bogdan State, PhD Candidate, Stanford University and Data Scientist, Facebook and Instagram
Big Data - Bruce Campbell, Director, Technical Division, UNFPA
Official Statistics - Bruno Lepri, Head the Mobile and Social Computing Lab at Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy), Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab and Data-Pop Alliance
Big Data - Carlos Eduardo Huertas, Director, Connectas
Data Journalism - Carlos Serrano, Director of Digital Content and Strategy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation (FNPI)
Data Journalism - Catalina Escobar, Executive Director, Makaia
Accountability and citizen engagement - Cheney Wells, Consultant, World Bank and Data2x
Counting what counts - Claire Melamed, Head of GPIP Programme, ODI
Plenary 2 - Cosmas Ochieng, Executive Director, African Center for Technology Studies
Big Data - Daniel Bramatti, Editor Estadão Dados, Journalism Blog O Estado
Data Journalism - Daniel Jimenez, Scientist and leader of Big Data expert group at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Big Data - Daniella Ballou-Aares, Senior Adviser for Development to the US Secretary of State
Plenary 3 - Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General, CIVICUS
Accountability and citizen engagement - Diego Silva, Deputy Director, DANE
Big Data - Dirk Jaspers, Director, Population Division, ECLAC
Official Statistics - Edilberto Loaiza, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, UNFPA
Official Statistics - Emilia Diaz-Struck, Research Editor, ICIJ
Data Journalism - Emmanuel Letouzé, Director, Data-Pop Alliance, Visiting Scholar, MIT Media Lab
Big Data - Enrique Ordaz, Head of Research, INEGI, co-chair of the UN-World Bank led Working Group on Big Data and the SDGs (TBC)
Big Data - Eric Swanson, Director and Co-Founder, Open Data Watch; Becca Furst-Nicols, Program Officer, UN Foundation
Counting what counts - Folarin Gbabebo-Smith, Director of the Center for Public Policy Alternatives
Big Data - Francesco Dorazio, Vice President of Product, Pulsar
Counting what counts - Gavin Starks, Founder and CEO, Open Data Institute
Plenary 1 - Haishan Fu, Director of the Development Data Group, World Bank (Invited)
Counting what counts - Hayk Gyuzalyan, Methods Director, TNS Opinion (Invited)
Counting what counts - Hon. Patrick Muyaya Katembwe, Member of Parliament, Democratic Republic of Congo
Accountability and citizen engagement
- Javier Surasky, Faculty, Instituto de Derechos Humanos, Faculdad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Universidad Nacional de la Plata
Counting what counts - Jeff Knezovich, Quaternary Consulting
Counting what counts - Jeffrey O’Malley, Director of the Division of Data, Research and Policy, UNICEF
Counting what counts - Johannes Jütting, Secretariat Manager, PARIS21
Official Statistics - Juan Manuel Casanueva, Director, SocialTic
Big Data - Júlia Keserű, International Policy Manager, Sunlight Foundation
Accountability and citizen engagement - Julia Manske, Research Affiliate, Data-Pop Alliance
Big Data - Julie Freeman, Open Data Institute
Data Art - Lawrence Yealue, West Africa Representative, Accountability Lab
Accountability and citizen engagement - Leonida Mutuku, Head of Data Science Lab at iHub Research Nairobi
Big Data - Lina Castro, Deputy National Statistician, Philippines Statistics Authority
Plenary 2, Official Statistics - Marcus Peffers, CEO, Saatchi World Services
Plenary 2, Counting what counts - Maria Martinho, Sustainable Development Officer, United Nations Sustainable Development Division
Big Data - Mariano Rojas, Professor of Economics, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Counting what counts - Mariéme Jamme, Founder of Africa Gathering and Data Activist
Big Data - Mauricio Perfetti del Corral, Director, National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE, Colombia
Official Statistics - Minh-Thu Pham, Senior Director of Policy, United Nations Foundation
Accountability and citizen engagement - Muchiri Nyaggah, Executive Director, Local Development Research Institute, Kenya
Accountability and citizen engagement - Dr. Nyi Nyi, Director of Population, Central Statistical Organization, Myanmar
Official Statistics - Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General, Statistics South Africa
Official Statistics - Paul Ladd, Director, Post-2015 Team, UNDP
Plenary 1 - Philipp Schönrock, Director, CEPEI
Plenary 1 - Ricardo Fuentes, Head of Research, Oxfam GB
Official Statistics - Robert Kirkpatrick, Director, UN Global Pulse
Counting what counts - Robyn Scott, Writer and entrepreneur
Big Data - Rudi Boormann, Innovation and Open Government Director, Buenos Aires City Government
Plenary 3 - Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Counting what counts - Sabrina Juran, Technical Specialist, Data and Population Analysis, UNFPA
Big Data - Sam Clark, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Official Statistics - Shaida Badiee, Managing Director, Open Data Watch
Official Statistics - Tariq Khokhar, Data Scientist, Data Development Group, The World Bank
Big Data - Werner Hernani, Executive Director, Foundation ARU Bolivia
Official Statistics - William Hoffman, Manager of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development 2014-2016
Big Data - Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Privacy at the MIT Media Lab; Research Affiliate, Data-Pop Alliance
Big Data - Zack Brisson, Co-founder and Principal, Reboot
Counting what counts
The Cartagena Data Festival will be held at the historic Casa 1537 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Calle del colegio 34 -75 Centro Histórico
Cartagena, Colombia
Phone: + 57 (5) 647 8898.
[map & floor plan]
Map your experience!
Over three days at the festival you will have the opportunity to attend various plenary sessions, conference tracks and side events. Map your experience with the guide below to plan which sessions you choose to attend. Please note: You will have the opportunity to register for different sessions onsite but where there are limited capacities, it will be first come, first served.
Room guide |
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Plenary room:
Salon San Cosme y Damian (Ground floor) Track room 1:
Salon Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco (Ground floor) Track room 2:
Salon san Carlos Borromeo (First floor) Training room 1:
Salon Fray Tomas del Toro (Ground floor) Training room 2:
Salon Juan de Badillo (First floor) |
Day 1 | |
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8.00 | Registration |
9.00 - 10.30 | Plenary room: Opening plenary |
10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break |
11.00 - 12.00 | Plenary room: Opening plenary (continued) |
12.00 - 14.00 12.00 – 13.30 |
Plenary room:
Sparking country-led data revolutions: Official launch of PARIS21’s ‘Informing a Data Revolution Road Map’ and ODI’s Data Revolution: Finding the Missing Millions (PARIS21, ODI)
Training room 1:
Training session: A people-centred approach to implementing open data in government (Open Data Institute)
Track room 1:
Humanitarian data and two case studies: Ebola and Colombia (Geopoll, OCHA, HDX)
Track room 2:
Older people count: Making data fit for purpose in a rapidly ageing world (HelpAge) |
13.30 - 14.00 | Lunch (continued) |
14.00 - 15.30 |
Plenary room:
Accountability and citizen engagement
Track room 1:
Counting what counts
Track room 2:
Big data |
15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
16.00 - 18.00 |
Plenary room:
Accountability and citizen engagement
Track room 1:
Counting what counts
Track room 2:
Big data |
18.00 - 20.30 | Central patio: Cocktail reception - Data as Culture presents We Need Us and The Future |
Day 2: | |
8.30 - 9.30 | Plenary room: Opening plenary |
9.30 - 11.00 |
Plenary room:
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index and new data for the effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (OHPI)
Track room 1:
The Data Revolution – showcasing innovations in citizen participation and accountability mechanisms (GNDR, My World, DataShift, UN Millennium Campaign)
Training room 1:
Connecting the dots: From data points to meaningful messaging (ODI Development Progress)
Track room 2:
(CLOSED EVENT) Innovation: The driver of the data revolution (CEPEI, DANE, PARIS21, UNFPA) |
11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30 - 13.00 |
Track room 1:
The local data revolution: The impact of human-centred design (WEF)
Track room 2:
Tracking inputs for accountability: Key quick data wins (DFI, IBP, Oxfam, PWYF)
Training room 1:
Training session: Telling stories with data (Open Data Institute)
Training room 2:
Harnessing the data revolution for development: Issues in the design and monitoring of SDG indicators (IUSSP, SDSN) |
13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
14.00 - 15.30 |
Plenary room:
Opportunities and challenges of the data revolution for National Statistics Offices
Track room 1:
Data journalism
Track room 2:
Data capsule |
15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break |
16.00 - 18.00 |
Plenary room:
Opportunities and challenges of the data revolution for National Statistics Offices
Track room 1:
Data journalism
Track room 2:
Data capsule |
18.00 - 19.00 | Short break |
19.00 - 20.00 | Shuttle buses will collect guests from various pick-up points and transport them to the evening reception at San Felipe Castillo |
20.00 - 22.30 | Data Visualisation Gala Dinner and Evening Reception |
Day 3: | |
8.30 - 10.00 |
Track room 1:
Geo big data challenges 4 massive collaboration (Geocensos)
Training room 1:
The big development datashift: From vision to implementation (DataShift)
Training room 2:
Civil registration and vital statistics - current status and the road ahead (ODI, IUSSP, UNFPA) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee break |
10.30 - 13.30 | Plenary room: Closing plenary |
Time and Location | Name | Details |
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Day 1: 20th April, 12.00 - 13.30 Plenary room: Salon San Cosme y Damian |
Sparking country – led data revolutions: Official launch of PARIS21’s ‘Informing a Data Revolution Road Map’ |
PARIS21 N/A |
Day 1: 20th April, 12.00 - 13.30 Training room 1: Salon Fray Tomas del Toro |
Training session: A people-centred approach to implementing open data in government |
Open Data Institute 20 people |
Day 1: 20th April, 12.00 - 13.30 Track room 2: Salon san Carlos Borromeo |
Older people count: Making data fit for purpose in a rapidly ageing world |
HelpAge 70 people |
Day 1: 20th April, 12.00 - 13.30 Track room 1: Salon Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco |
Humanitarian data and two case studies: Ebola and Colombia |
Geopoll, OCHA teran1 100 people |
Day 2: 21st April, 9.30 - 11.00 Plenary room: Salon San Cosme y Damian |
Global multidimensional poverty index and new data for the effective implementation of the sustainable development goal |
OPHI N/A |
Day 2: 21st April, 9.30 - 11.00 Training room 1: Salon Fray Tomas del Toro |
Connecting the dots: From data points to meaningful messaging |
ODI DP 70 people |
Day 2: 21st April, 9.30 - 11.00 Track room 1: Salon Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco |
The Data Revolution – showcasing innovations in citizen participation and accountability mechanisms |
100 people |
Day 2: 21st April, 9.30 - 11.00 Track room 2: Salon san Carlos Borromeo |
Innovation: The Driver of the Data Revolution |
PARIS21, CEPEI, DANE, UNFPA, Data-Pop Alliance CLOSED EVENT |
Day 2: 21st April, 11.00 - 12.30 Training room 1: Salon Fray Tomas del Toro |
Training session: Telling stories with data |
Open Data Institute 20 people |
Day 2: 21st April, 11.00 - 12.30 Training room 2: Salon Juan de Badillo |
Harnessing the data revolution for development: Issues in the design and monitoring of SDG indicators |
IUSSP, SDSN 70 people |
Day 2: 21st April, 11.00 - 12.30 Track room 1: Salon Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco |
The local data revolution: The impact of human-centred design |
WEF 100 people |
Day 2: 21st April, 11.00 - 12.30 Track room 2: Salon san Carlos Borromeo |
Tracking inputs for accountability: Key Quick Data Wins |
DFI, IBP, Oxfam, PWYF 100 people |
Day 3: 22nd April, 8.30 - 10.00 Training room 1: Salon Fray Tomas del Toro |
The Big Development DataShift: From Vision to Implementation |
Data Shift 100 people |
Day 3: 22nd April, 8.30 - 10.00 Training room 2: Salon Juan de Badillo |
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics – Current status and the road ahead |
ODI 70 people |
Day 3: 22nd April, 8.30 - 10.00 Track room 1: Salon Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco |
Geo Big Data Challenges 4 Massive Collaboration |
Geocensos 100 people |
REGISTRATION FOR THE CONFERENCE IS NOW CLOSED.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO WATCH ONLINE: PLEASE REGISTER BELOW TO RECIEVE A LINK OF THE LIVE STREAM.
Please register your interest to attend the conference. Due to limited spaces at the conference, we will confirm whether we are able to offer you a place within a week of receiving your expression of interest. Please note, if your registration is successful your conference pass to attend the two day event will be complimentary but no further costs to support participation will be covered.
Exciting content from key sessions of the Cartagena Data Festival will be live-streamed online. If you can’t join us in person, register to receive updates and join the conversation from wherever you are in the world.
Data as Culture presents We Need Us and The Future
The Cartagena Data Festival will host a cocktail reception for all attendees on the evening of Monday 20 April at the Casa 1537. This evening event will mark the opening of an exhibition featuring the Open Data Institute’s Data as Culture art programme, a Cartoon Movement ‘data cartoon competition’ and a showcase of data visualisations. A series of short introductory talks will be delivered before the evening is officially opened and participants will have the opportunity to explore for themselves the ways in which data can be used in creative, artistic and innovative ways through taking a walk around the exhibition.
Time | Detail |
18.00 | End of conference tracks – participants are led to the patio for the cocktail reception |
18.15 | Official welcome &ndash Emmanuel Letouzé, Data-Pop Alliance |
18.25 | Overview of work being showcased – Gavin Starks, Open Data Institute |
18.30 | ‘Illuminating the future with peace’ project overview – Alicia Eggert, TED Fellow |
18.35 | Weneedus project overview &ndash Julie Freeman, Open Data Institute |
18.40 | Cartoon Movement overview and winners announced – Emmanuel Letouzé, Data-Pop Alliance |
18.45 | Exhibition opens, cocktail reception continues |
Data as Culture
The Data as Culture art programme at the Open Data Institute engages diverse audiences with artists and artworks that use, or respond to, open data as an art material and subject for artistic research. The Open Data Institute exhibits and commissions artworks for their space and for external venues, independently and with partners. They have shown works from emerging, mid-career and established artists, and commissioned new works, reaching large audiences in Britain and beyond.
We Need Us (2014) – Julie Freeman
‘We Need Us’ is a living artwork, shaped by people, and influenced by data. It is a real-time, online, animated artwork that explores both ‘life data’ and the life of data. The primary material used to create the sounds and animation in the work is metadata – data about data – which it draws from the activities of over a million people participating in the citizen science website, Zooniverse.org.
Unlike traditional data visualisation, which helps us understand and make sense of information held in large data sets, ‘We Need Us’ investigates the unique properties of the data as a whole. It asks ‘if the data had lives of their own, how would they be revealed?’ while being dependent upon the extent of human endeavour that generates the large data sets it shapes itself from. ‘We Need Us’ would cease to exist without this real-time human activity. As with much technology, people are at the heart of the process. Commissioned by The Space and the ODI. Read more.
The Future (2015) – Alicia Eggert and Safwat Saleem
‘The Future’ illuminates the overall state of peace or conflict around the world. Each light bulb represents one of the world’s 206 sovereign states; bulbs representing states at peace are lit, while bulbs representing states in conflict are unlit.
By intentionally simplifying complex issues and representing peace and conflict as binary on/off states, ‘The Future’ is designed to instigate conversations and create awareness about conflicts across the globe that affect billions of people. ‘The Future’ may look rather grim and dark at this particular moment in time, but our hope is that the project inspires people to reflect on what can be accomplished to make the world brighter and more peaceful.
Determinations regarding the peace or conflict status of individual sovereign states are made using data culled from the Institute for Economics and Peace and warsintheworld.com. Commissioned by FineActs.co. Read more.
#Dataviz winner: The Human Development Tree by Jurjen Verhagen
The Human Development Tree by Jurjen Verhagen, an engineer and interactive visualization specialist from the Netherlands, was selected today as the winner of the Data Visualization Competition organized by the Human Development Report Office for the Cartagena DataFest. He and the other two finalists, Close the Gap by Ri Liu and Visualizing the 2013 Human Development Index by InKyung Choi and her team, travelled to the Cartagena DataFest, where they received their awards on 21 April, 2015, from the Mayor of Cartagena and the Deputy Director of HDRO, in front of hundreds of data artists and scientists from around the world.
The three finalists for the Human Development Data Visualization Competition stood out for their aesthetic appeal, communications value, technique and originality. They were selected out of a large and interesting pool of submissions by a judging panel composed of data visualization experts and members of the DataFest organizing committee.
The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) received 80 submissions from 29 countries for this Data Visualization Competition. Nine of these were identified for the final round of judging by a panel of experts in data visualization and development.
Meet the finalists
The winner of the competition was The Human Development Tree, which was created by Jurjen Verhagen, an engineer and interactive visualization specialist with Zolabo, in the Netherlands. The visualization lets the user generate an Human Development Index (HDI) value which they consider acceptable as minimal life conditions. Using these values, each user gets a tree which shows how many countries have low HDI, but also shows progress over time. The visualization is strong in terms of design, as it includes three-dimensional elements and advanced use of visual components and color. It also allows the user to reflect on the human development components and how they are reflected in the HDI of different countries.
The first runner-up was Close the Gap, which was created by Ri Lui, a freelance data visualization designer from Australia who describes herself as having a passion for using data for social good. Her visualization seeks to communicate the gaps between women and men that exist around the world by exploring the facets of labour force participation, parliamentary participation, secondary education and income levels. It also seeks to highlight which countries have improved the most, and which are doing poorly in the efforts towards gender equality. The visualization intends to increase the understanding of gender gaps worldwide, and thus became an advanced analytical dashboard.
The second runner-up was Visualizing the 2013 Human Development Index, which was submitted by InKyung Choi, a spatial statistics specialist working at UNECA in Ethiopia. The work is a collective effort with Katalin Bokor, Xuan Che, Malgorzata Cwiek and Peter Njagi. The visualization consists of three interconnected parts, showing inequality, population distribution and progress in terms of HDI and its components.
Human Development Data Visualisation Competition Awards Ceremony
In the lead up to the Cartagena Data Festival, the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) ran a data visualisation competition based on its own human development data. The objective of the competition was to allow a broad cross-section of data users and artists to share their interpretation of human development data. The Data Visualisation Gala Dinner and Evening Reception will showcase the winning entries from the competition at an awards ceremony hosted at San Felipe Castillo in Cartagena. Alongside the speeches and announcements, participants will be served a 3-course meal and refreshments. The dinner is open to all participants of the Cartagena Data Festival and shuttle buses will be provided from designated pick up points following the conference and will be provided to bring participants back into town following the reception. Further details on pick up locations and timings will be provided at the conference.
Time | Detail |
19.00 | Shuttle buses pick up guests from pick-up points across Cartagena |
19.30 | Guests begin to arrive and are seated for dinner and cocktails |
20.00 | Welcome address - Dioniso Velez Trujillo, Mayor, Cartagena |
20.05 | Introduction to the Data Visualisation Competition and human development - Eva Jespersen, Deputy Director and Head of National Human Development Reports Unit, UNDP |
20.15 | Overview of Data Visualisation Competition entry - Finalist 1 |
20.20 | Overview of Data Visualisation Competition entry - Finalist 2 |
20.25 | Finalists are awarded and award ceremony closed |
20.30 | Dinner is served |
21.45 | First shuttle bus taxis guests back to drop-off points |
22.45 | Last shuttle bus taxis guests back to drop-off points |
Competition
THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO ALL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.
In the context of the Cartagena DataFest, the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) is organizing a data visualisation competition based on its own human development data. The objective of this competition is to allow a broad cross-section of data users and artists to share with us their interpretation of human development data. The deadline for submission is 20 March, 2015, 11:59 PM GMT. The winners will be announced in Cartagena on 21 April 2015, and finalists will be showcased in HDRO’s data visualisation gallery.
Participants will be provided 6 datasets from which to choose, along with a series of questions on which to draw inspiration. Submissions may be infographics or interactive visualisations and should provide an original and thought provoking illustration of human development.
Guidelines and submission form are available here.
Innovations are key to making the Data Revolution happen. Bright new ideas can come from all areas of data collection, processing and dissemination. But in addition to a great idea, an innovation needs a platform to get the attention it deserves. As part of the Cartagena Data Festival we are organising an Innovations Fair to showcase innovative uses of new technologies to give great ideas a global stage. Case studies from across the following areas will be showcased as part of this interactive fair:
- Data collection
- Data dissemination
- Data visualisation
- Open data initiatives
- Use of "big data"
The Innovations Fair will be open throughout the three days and participants are encouraged to come and learn more about the bright ideas that could catalyse the data revolution!
The Cartoon Movement is a global collaborative platform for editorial cartoons and comics journalism that publishes new content at least four times a week. In the lead-up to the Festival, the Cartoon Movement set up a newsroom calling for submissions of artwork relating to data and development. A showcase of 19 cartoons from this competition were showcased throughout the festival and participants were asked to vote by Tweeting their favourite cartoon.
Competition winners
We are pleased to announce the 4 winning cartoons, selected by voters at the Cartagena Data Festival and on the Cartoon Movement website. Thank you to all who participated and voted!
Please click on these winning cartoons to Tweet about them:
The UN Millennium Campaign, UNDP Colombia, and Telefonica have the pleasure of inviting participants of the Cartagena Data Festival and other distinguished guests from civil society, government, the private sector and local media to a Data Playground Reception.
Surrounded by the walls of the beautiful colonial house of Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) in Cartagena, the event will showcase some of the innovative work on data for development already underway within the UN system and private sector.
During the cocktail reception, attendees will have the opportunity to explore an exhibition of innovative and interactive data derived from UNMC, UNDP Colombia and Telefonica that shows progress on the Millennium Development Goals, climate solutions, citizen-derived perceptions on the next development agenda and more.
Date: 22 April at 6 pm
Venue: CFCE - Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española en Cartagena de Indias Centro, Carrera 36 N° 2-74, Plaza Santo Domingo
RSVP by April 19th: emmanuel.fontalvo@undp.org