The Global Ecosystems Atlas will be the first comprehensive harmonised open resource on the extent, change, condition and risk of all the world’s ecosystems. I provided a co-financing grant from UNEP for prototype development by the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and other partners.
Strata is a geospatial data platform that provides analytical information to practitioners, design of policies and programmes for climate change adaptation, risk reduction, and resilience-building in conflict-affected regions. The platform allows users to identify, map and monitor environmental and climate stresses potentially driving threats to peace and security. I co-founded the platform as a collaboration between EarthBlox and Google Earth Engine.
The UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) supports country-led efforts to use spatial data and analytic tools to generate insight and impact for conservation and sustainable development. The platform aims to support decision-makers to leverage spatial data for insight, priority-setting, implementation, monitoring and reporting of national biodiversity goals. I co-founded the platform together with UNDP, UNEP-WCMC and the CBD.
MapX is an online cartographic platform for managing geospatial data on the environment and natural resources. I co-founded the platform as a collaboration between UNEP, GRID-Geneva and the World Bank to map the environmental and social consequences of the extractive industries.
I co-founded the platform together with UNDP, the International Science Council, Future Earth, and the Governments of Germany and Kenya and represented UNEP on the executive advisory board.
I co-founded the platform in collaboration with UNESCO, StartUp Inside, and Microsoft. Together we organized a global virtual conference dedicated to the theme of AI for the Planet on February 16th, 2021. It brought together the world’s best experts and AI pioneers to share concrete use cases, identify best practices, celebrate successes, and inspire further actions in this field.
Contributed to co-founding the association together with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and became one of the first board members.
The UNEP's Choice Award is part of the annual Green Game Jam, which is organized by the Playing for the Planet Alliance to encourage game studios to integrate environmental themes into their games. The UNEP's Choice award specifically recognizes an activation that excels in its environmental messaging and is judged by a panel from the UN Environment Programme.
A global youth hackathon focused on creating digital solutions for climate change. It took place during the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and involved 1864 teams from 125 countries. The winning teams presented their solutions to world leaders and were invited to join the "Build for Earth" acceleration program to develop their ideas further.
The Youth Hackathon is a flagship initiative of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week, empowering young people worldwide to tackle urgent challenges in today’s digital information landscape. These include the rise of AI, the spread of mis- and disinformation, online hate speech, platform dominance, and threats to information integrity.
Hackaton teams joined the GEO Indigenous Alliance and Indigenous leaders and communities from around the world to produce solutions to crowdsourced challenges developed through a process of co-design. The project involved curating a series of virtual hackathons in various Indigenous and under-represented communities with the intent of co-designing locally relevant EO-based challenges that are culturally appropriate to Indigenous beliefs and conceptions about diseases.