Our recurring series Taxonomy Matters explores definitions of terms related to the field of international development and their connection to knowledge products that we publish. This new entry focuses on the subject of food security. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and its multilingual thesaurus AGROVOC, food security is a situation … [Read more...] about Taxonomy Matters: Food Security
Open-Source technology and AI-powered Data to strengthen Urban Planning
UrbanPy is a python-based tool offered in an open-source fashion as part of the Open Urban Planning Toolbox. It was designed to support urban planning by bringing together specific local data focused on geographic regions defined by municipal authorities, making it useful across various contexts. The tool was developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in … [Read more...] about Open-Source technology and AI-powered Data to strengthen Urban Planning
The Publication Station: Korea-LAC cooperation, digital inclusion policies, and gender discrimination
3 minutos de lectura. Welcome to The Publication Station, a worthwhile stop on your knowledge journey, where you will find a compilation of IDB Publications available in English, covering a range of topics germane to social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This recurring series has a Spanish language counterpart, El Rincón de Publicación that is … [Read more...] about The Publication Station: Korea-LAC cooperation, digital inclusion policies, and gender discrimination
Taxonomy Matters: Climate Finance
This article is part of the Taxonomy Matters series, where we share definitions from our knowledge taxonomy along with a set of related knowledge products. In this edition, the term is climate finance. Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it is defined as “local, national or transnational financing—drawn from public, private and … [Read more...] about Taxonomy Matters: Climate Finance
Introducing Taxonomy Matters
This article welcomes a new Abierto al Público series focused on taxonomy as a key element for successful knowledge management. It provides structure, consistency, and promotes common understanding. A taxonomy is an organization structure that consists of a set of term lists (controlled vocabularies) that are used to classify or tag content (e.g. documents, data, etc.) … [Read more...] about Introducing Taxonomy Matters