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Data for Development: How You Can Help the UN Leverage Big Data for the Public Good 数据的发展：为了联合国在公益事业上的发展，我们该如何利用大数据 A film introducing the Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto United Nations Headquarters in September 2015. UN Photo/Cia Pak 一部介绍可持续发展目标的影片将在2015年9月引入联合国总部。UN Photo/Cia Pak By Atefeh Riazi* 著于Atefeh Riazi* Late at night in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers at the The Royal Institute of Technology are in a video-conference with United Nations economists and data scientists at their New York headquarters. They are putting the final touches on a data visualization showing 25-year forecasts of the effect of political decisions on climate change, poverty, and water and food security. This big data-driven work offers the potential to create important new insights that could improve lives across the developing world. 在瑞典斯德哥尔摩的深夜，皇家理工学院的研究人员与在纽约总部的联合国经济学家和数据科学家正在视频会议，对一项数据可视化进行最后的商讨调整。这个数据可视化可预见25年里关于气候变化，贫困，和食品及水质安全的政治决定的影响。这个大数据驱动工作为能创造可以改善发展中国家生活水平的重要新洞见提供了可能性。 Such collaborative efforts reflect a commitment by the United Nations to adopt a model prevalent in the private sector where innovative companies make open calls for the brightest technical minds to propose ways to improve their algorithms, with the reward often being cash prizes. Instead of financial rewards, the United Nations is offering no less than the opportunity to help build a better world. And it is inviting partners to the table through dialogue, public-private partnerships, and innovation challenges. 这样的协同努力反映了联合国承诺在私营部门中采取一种常见的模式。在私营部门中，革新型公司通常会以提供现金奖励的方式，呼吁那些最聪明的技术头脑提出改进算法的方法。除去经济回报，联合国正提供不亚于帮助建设一个更美好的世界的机会。它通过对话、建立公私合作的伙伴关系和创新挑战，邀请伙伴到同一阵营。 At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the need to forge stronger partnerships that have a real impact on peoples lives. He asked companies to provide essential solutions and resources that put our world on a more sustainable path and recognized that responsible businesses have enorm