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STS479 Ola A.
 ESRI ArcGIS Open data Platform
Palestine is one of the initial participating countries in this platform in
addition to Morocco, Qatar, UK, Tanzania, Colombia, Canada, Brazil, Kenya,
Ireland, Mexico, Philippines, S. Africa, and Senegal, this modern technology
platform enables the overlay and integration of multiple national and global
data sets to better understanding of the relationships, interlinkages, and to
address inconsistencies. It also engages communities of interest of SDGs with
country owned policy initiatives by geographical dimension.

Figure 2: Palestine interface for ESRI ArcGIS Open data Platform

In addition to the geographical dimension, the map story element was
developed to empower the global users’ community to organize all knowledge
about the world spatially. Map story is an infrastructure for enabling
"MapStorytelling" as means of communicating important issues to global and
national users with friendly manner. PCBS started to produce map stories
which covered different areas such as early marriage, labor market inequalities
and poverty taking the Palestinian conflict context into the analysis process
such as refugee camps, Palestinian areas fully controlled by the Israeli
occupation.

PCBS achievements on SDGs:
Despite hard conditions related to Palestinian situation and lack of resources,
PCBS took the opportunity of SDGs to achieve improvements by:
 Defining national priorities with the government.
 Creating SDGs mapping matrix, which assess where is Palestine from SDGs,
and figure 3 explains indicators availability by goal as update at the end of
first quarter, 2019.

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