Details
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
SDG AI Lab is developing a dashboard for the track of trends over the SDG 16' context which would give insights of the changes and tackles of the context over the time. The dashboard is intented to support work of UNDP and other development stakeholders working on the SDG 16 context.
Task description
The online volunteers will support the ongoing project called AI powered Knowledge Base Development. The volunteers will work do web scraping over the identified websites with Python programming language. The assigned tasks may include but not limited to • Scraping identified websites • Checking the quality of collected data SDG AI Lab will support the volunteer as needed, with regular check-ins and maintaining collaboration through Slack and GitHub group repository. The volunteer will work under the coordination of the Technical Specialist of the IICPSD.