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title: Reflections on UNEP's Digital Transformation (including a digital ecosystem for our planet)
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Reflections on UNEP's Digital Transformation (including a digital ecosystem for our planet)
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###### Tags: `UNEP`
These :construction: draft notes were written by Kit Macleod ([The James Hutton Institute, UK](https://www.hutton.ac.uk/)) following a conversation with David Jensen (Coordinator of the UNEP Digital Transformation Task Force) to set out my understanding of UNEP's ambition to help enable its delivery.

***How to navigate these notes*** (these consist of topics related to UNEP's vision, these emoji are pictorial guide to the nature of the content).
:question: represents one or more questions.
:bulb: represents an idea/suggestion. 
:key: represents some aspect that I think is key/important. 
:warning: represents aspects that I think could be viewed as high risk. 
:rainbow: represents aspects related to the diverse community that are already involved or welcome to contribute. 
:school: represents learning from others.
:hammer_and_wrench: represent tools.
:floppy_disk: represents datasets.


Initial digital ecosystem datasets 
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:question: :floppy_disk: [Digital ecosystem datasets](/@kitmacleod/DigitalEcosystemDatasets)
:key: :rainbow: [Existing environmental data initiatives ](/@kitmacleod/EnvironmentDataInitiatives)


Enabling a community to deliver UNEP's digital ecosystem
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:question: :rainbow: [UNEP's digital ecosystem community](/@kitmacleod/DigitalEcosystemCommunity)
:question: :hammer_and_wrench: [What community tools/approach to use?](/@kitmacleod/CommunityToolsAndApproaches)
:school: [Learning from community/public engagement initiatives](/@kitmacleod/CommunityEngagementInitiatives)
:hammer_and_wrench: [Community engagement tools](/@kitmacleod/CommunityEngagementTools) 
:rainbow: [Scientific research communities](/@kitmacleod/ResearchProjectsAndNetworks)

Understanding who (and why and how) needs UNEP's digital ecosystem and who/what may be viewed as competing to meet their needs
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:question: :warning: [Who are your competitors and what are they up to? ](/@kitmacleod/Competitors)

Learning from others
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***Digital tech and data***
:school: [Software engineering best practices](/@kitmacleod/LearningFromSoftwareEngineering)
:school: [Cloud native ](/@kitmacleod/LearningFromCloudNative)
:school: [Cross platform projects](/@kitmacleod/LearningFromCrossPlatformProject)
:school: [Personal data management](/@kitmacleod/LearningFromPersonalDataManagementProjects)
:school: [Urban data and planning approaches](/@kitmacleod/UrbanDataAndPlanningApproaches)
:school: [Open data organisations](/@kitmacleod/OpenDataOrganisations)
:school: [Infrastructure as code](/@kitmacleod/InfrastructureAsCode)
:school: [Country level data management](/@kitmacleod/CountryLevelEnvData)
:school: [City level data management](/@kitmacleod/CityLevelEnvData)
***Green/climate finance***
:school: [Recent posts from Investment & Pensions Europe](/@kitmacleod/IPE_Posts)
***Data/code/algorithm/model governance***
:school: [Data and model goverance](/@kitmacleod/LearningFromDataCodeGovernance)


Purpose
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[Selected sections from David Jensen's Medium posts](/@kitmacleod/SummaryOfMediumPosts)