Research Support for an Automated Analysis of Sustainable Development Goals

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Online volunteers will join a unique initiative on developing an open-source, production-ready Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) classification tool. They will be invited to participate regularly in SDG data annotation and text labelling exercises via a newly built Community Platform. The dataset created by the volunteers will ultimately contribute to the development of a common understanding on SDGs while deepening their knowledge of the topic. The results of their work will not only improve the OSDG tool but also enable international organisations, companies and academics around the world to advance their research on sustainability and help to more accurately define the contribution of various research fields to SDGs.

• Research

• Other communications related experience

  OSDG is a joint initiative of IICPSD’s SDG AI Lab, PPMI and a growing community of researchers that aims at developing an open-source and transparent tool for classifying texts according to SDGs. The initiative brings together experts in the areas of Sustainable Development, Data Science and Digital Transformation to solve various SDG-related problems using cutting-edge tools and methodologies. To date, we have initiated work in three major areas, namely ontology building, data collection and machine learning.

• Volunteers: 25 needed

• 6-10 hours per week / 16 weeks

  At least a bachelor’s degree in any field, e.g. Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Humanities. Advanced English skills are required. People from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Interest in and/or knowledge of Sustainable Development Goals is preferred.

• Global

• English