Prof Abbas Rajabifard, Deputy Director of RIIS Hub and Director CSDILA, Dept IE, University of Melbourne has been awarded a Fellowship as the highest accolade from the International Research Centre of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), at the 4th International Forum on Big Data for SDGs, 6-8 Sept 2024 in Beijing. CBAS has formally been established at the 75th United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2020.
The Fellowship is to recognise global scientific leaders with outstanding achievements and contributions made in the field of promoting sustainable development through technological innovation in supporting the implementation of United Nations SDGs through harnessing science and technology.
There are five key missions CBAS is working on:
- Developing SDG big data platform,
- Conducting SDG monitoring and evaluation,
- Developing SDG Satellites,
- Becoming a think-tank for SDGs,
- Capacity development for developing countries