Data Service Center
In the Data Service Center, a team of data scientists advises GIZ projects on how they can collect, analyze, manage and use a wide range of data sets for their work. In this way, it makes an important contribution to anchoring data-based work at GIZ. The Data Service Center currently provides advice in three areas: Geodata, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), each of which is applied in a variety of sectors.
In the Data Service Center, a team of data scientists advises GIZ projects on how they can collect, analyze, manage and use a wide range of data sets for their work. In this way, it makes an important contribution to anchoring data-based work at GIZ. The Data Service Center currently provides advice in three areas: Geodata, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), each of which is applied in a variety of sectors.
Measuring deforestation at the touch of a button
By analyzing geodata, for example, we can determine which areas are being used for agriculture in a particular region. We can also uncover illegal deforestation or track the effects of the climate crisis. Geodata is an important knowledge base for our projects around the world, enabling them to plan their activities in a more targeted manner and track progress. The experts at the Data Service Center provide advice on available data sets, and create customized maps.
Analyze texts in seconds
In the field of AI, the Data Service Center focuses primarily on the algorithmic processing of text and language, known as natural language processing (NLP). For example, in collaboration with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the team has developed a web application that analyzes political documents to determine whether and to which Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) they refer. The Data Service Center is also working on the use of NLP for knowledge management within the organization. The results of this work can be found in this Hugging Face Space.
Making impacts tangible
It is of fundamental importance for GIZ to communicate the changes that our projects bring about. It is therefore important that data on activities and results can be recorded centrally and evaluated across all projects. The Data Service Center supports the standardized collection and processing of monitoring data. It also gives projects access to quality-assured analyses for data-based project management.
Get in touch
Please contact us if you would like to find out more or are interested in working with us. You can reach us at dataservicecenter@giz.de.