Helen Long
Sessions in which Helen Long attends
Wednesday 13 October, 2021
Kristen Mattison, Director General, Centre for Rural Economic Development (CENRED, Infrastructure Canada)
Download PresentationThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all countries. The achievement to these goals is measured through a set of indicators. Within the SDG framework, the Rural Access Index (RAI) is one of the most im...
Download PresentationThe first part will present OECD work on granular, timely and internationally comparable measures of digital connectivity across space using open unconventional data from private sources. The second part will present OECD work on international comparable estimations of access to and cost of education and health services usi...
Download PresentationEven in an increasingly digital world, spatial proximity to services and amenities remains a driver of socioeconomic outcomes for business and people alike. In Canada, a nation-wide measurement framework of proximity was lacking. To address this data gap, Statistics Canada developed the first set of nation-wide proximity me...
This dialogue will explore a series of questions to encourage collaboration among rural stakeholders. Questions we hope participants will address include:What types of open geospatial data sources are most promising to advance the measurement agenda for rural-urban analysis and localized SDGs?How can we facilitate working in the open for scalability, replicability and transparency of methods?Are there methodological approaches that facilitate comparisons betwe...
