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David E. Jensen (he/him)

Head of the Digital Transformation Task Force, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

David Jensen is the coordinator of the Digital Transformation Task Force at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In this capacity, he is responsible for developing the new digital transformation strategy and for accelerating the uptake of digital technologies across the organization. David has been advising the UN Science Policy Business Forum on these topics since 2018 and was the co-author of a flagship discussion paper entitled The Case for a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment. He also co-wrote a series of Medium articles on a Digital Ecosystem for the Planet (123). Within the digital space, David has co-founded numerous platforms including MapXEarthschool, the UN Biodiversity Lab, and the Environmental Peacebuilding Platform.

Sessions

Digital transformation and environmental governance

November 4, 2020  8:45 PM – 9:25 PM
In this session, we explore one critical challenge: public governance of environmental data is not keeping pace with fast-paced private sector innovation in instrumentation and environmental data harvesting, raising unprecedented policy challenges for governments around the world. See more.
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