A World that Counts: Mobilizing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development

A World that Counts: Mobilizing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development provided a roadmap for how the data revolution might accelerate the development agenda. Prepared at the request of the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, its launch predated the General Assembly’s adoption of the 2030 Agenda—a universal, goal-oriented plan to advance global development equitably and sustainably—by ten months. This gave data practitioners a jump on acting on its recommendation to align innovations in data to the development framework underpinning the 2030 Agenda.