Mission and objectivesIstanbul 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 Turkiye, 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.
ContextSDG AI Lab is working on enhancing the websites for the Tech4R and FDR4DRR initiatives. Tech4R is a project that is aimed to develop open-source solutions for the disaster risk mitigation, the website provides information on current activities of the project, digital solutions that the project has been developing as well as information on the initiative. FDR4DRR is a radar website that is tracking existing projects worldwide that work in disaster context and help users find projects and initiatives that can help in disaster mitigation. Both websites are functioning but require enhancements and improvements. The volunteers will be able to help with the functionality and visual updates of the websites.
Task DescriptionThe volunteers will work on the enhancement of the existing websites for the 2 SDG AI LAB initiatives: tech4R and FDR4DRR. Specifically, they will support the web development of the websites to improve their functionality, including finalizing backlog tasks provided by the SDG AI Team's web developer. In addition, they might be asked to add additional information and other content or improve existing information on the websites, provided by the project manager. Enhancements to Tech4R are aimed to develop open-source solutions for the disaster risk mitigation, and to FDR4DRR to track new disaster mitigation solutions that exist worldwide. Both websites are functioning but require enhancements and improvements. SDG AI Lab will support the volunteers as needed, with regular check-ins and maintaining collaboration through Slack and GitHub group repository. The volunteers will work under the coordination of the Technical Specialist of the ICPSD as well is with the support of the on team Web developer. The assignment will last for 5 weeks. The volunteers will be assigned tasks from the on-team web developers via GitHub and weekly online 30-minute calls will be conducted to check on the work progress and provide support.
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