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Mission and objectives
Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) supports the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy for inclusive business, facilitation of public-private dialogue and brokering partnerships. IICPSD, established in 2011 in partnership with the Government of Turkey, is one of UNDP's six Global Policy Centres. It leads UNDP’s global work on private sector and foundations and supports UNDP’s offices all over the world. The Center focuses on four thematic areas: 1. Inclusive Business; 2. Private Sector Engagement in Skills Development; 3. Impact investing; 4. Resilience and Crisis Response. The Center also hosts four global initiatives: Business Call to Action, SDG Philanthropy Platform, Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform and Connecting Business Initiative.
Context
IICPSD’s SDG AI Lab initiative (sdgailab.org) and ITM require assistance in the development of Coastal Change detection solutions. We are working on the improvement on an existing tool based on the CoastSat module (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104528). (https://github.com/kvos/CoastSat) We will be working in a SCRUM based process and try to iteratively explore the solutions for the problem. Our partners will be leading the decision-making process and set goals and targets to the team of volunteers to achieve the required outputs. The Lab provides in-house expertise, resources, and research support to various UNDP projects to mainstream digital transformation to development problems and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Task description
The online volunteers will assist SDG AI LAB and ITM in 1) debugging + stress testing and 2) migrating an existing Coastline Change Tool to a new environment. The project is currently in stage 1, where extensive analysis and stress testing is required. The volunteers are first asked to validate and inspect the existing implementation and report the findings on GitHub and or in Notebooks. After this, solution-oriented work is required to remove the existing errors or at least improve the situation. Later, the team will work on a standalone version of the tool, which can function outside of its current environment (Google Earth Engine Apps).