Support the labelling of texts by goals of the African Union's Agenda 2063

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An SDG Integration Team located with UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) offers a menu of services emphasizing direct short- to medium-term engagements to respond rapidly to requests from country offices for support on national implementation and monitoring of integrated policy solutions, qualitative and evidence-driven analysis for accelerated progress, and knowledge sharing and upscaling of innovative approaches to sustainable development. The team’s work emphasizes the application of evidence- driven data and analytics for SDG implementation and reporting. In this regard, advances in digital technology are creating data at unprecedented levels of detail and speed, turning the stories of people’s lives into numbers every minute of every day, across the globe. An important focus of the integration work is to complement traditional data (e.g., national statistics,) with new and alternative sources including digital ‘breadcrumbs,’ satellite data, social media to identify emerging trends and gain new perspectives on issues in development.

The team is looking for motivated volunteers to support the labelling of texts by goals and aspirations of the African Union's Agenda 2063. The purpose of this assignment is to collect high-quality human-labelled dataset to support the development of multi-purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications at UNDP. The volunteers will be provided with access to a web-based annotation tool together with detailed instructions on how to use the tool and a selection of texts to label. Each volunteer is expected to contribute a number of labels during the course of the assignment to successfully complete it.

• At least a bachelor's degree in social sciences, humanities or STEM.
• Proficiency in English is a requirement. Working knowledge of Arabic or French is an asset.
• Familiarity with the work of the African Union is required.
• Previous experience working in a development context in Africa is an asset.