Global Online Certificate Course: Demystifying Environment Data and Maps for Communication in the 21st Century : CSE
Date: September 26 – October 10, 2023 / Last date to apply 18th Sep 2023 / Course duration: 15 hours / course platform: Zoom and Moodle
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
“There is drama in numbers, especially when these numbers give you a trend — are things getting better or worse. It is even more powerful when you can use the trend to understand the crisis, the challenge and the opportunity; and take appropriate actions.”
– Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment
Data is not just numbers. It is critical for research communication, advocacy and decision-making.
Data and the maps on climate change, air pollution, water, agriculture, urbanisation and economy, when put together, paint a larger picture of the situation in terms of sustainability and development.
So, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of South Asia’s leading think tanks on the politics of development, environment and climate change, invites you to join its Global Online Certificate Training, which focuses specifically on: understanding data, analysing it, and visualising it to tell climate change and development stories to different stakeholders for action
The course will cover the outcomes of the high-level Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit 2023 to be held at New York in September and offer insights into the global framework and progress on the 17 SDGs through data
By the end of the course, participants will be able to analyse and unravel what the numbers really say on environment and development. They will be able to create visually impactful stories, maps and dashboards using state-of-the-art visualisation tools for interactive communication and collaterals, for different stakeholders to trigger actions—at regional and global level
- Data Sourcing: Learn how and where to research for relevant data (and maps) on environment and sustainability. You will learn to find different data sets clean, transform and make them ready for analysis using Excel and Microsoft PowerBI
- Data Analysis and Modelling to make data meaningful: Learn skills required to process data and create relationships between different data sets on environment and development (includes Sustainable Development Goals)
- Data Visualisation: Understand the basic concepts of visualisation and learn to visualise data using Data wrapper, and Microsoft PowerBI.
- Data Dashboard: Learn to create interactive dashboards showing relationships between different data sets on the environment and development.
- Report Writing: Develop skills to process, visualise, and integrate environmental data and maps into simple, compelling and informative ‘reports, articles, stories’ and other communication collaterals, for print and web.
COURSE DATE September 26 – October 10, 2023
LAST DATE TO APPLY September 18, 2023
COURSE PLATFORM Zoom and Moodle
COURSE DURATION 15 hours
COURSE FEE Rs 3,500 for Indian participants
US $100 for Global participants
Fees once paid are not returnable/refundable or transferrable
CSE and AAETI will award Certificates of Participation to all those who attend and complete the course.
Who can attend?
- Professionals, government officials and policymakers across all ministries and departments
- Academia: Faculty and researchers, and students associated with environment, climate change and sustainable development
- Researchers and writers on environment and development
- National and international civil society groups, NGOs, climate activists and advocates
- Industries: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)/CSR officers, Public relations/Communication officers
- Public relation, Data managers and statisticians interested in improving communication skills
- Anyone else interested in the subject
Course structure
The self-paced online programme will have video lectures, presentations, tutorials, quizzes and assignments. Participants will also get an opportunity to work on an in-depth project of their choice.
The programme will also have three live interactive sessions for meeting the trainers and fellow participants.
The programme has been designed in such a way that it can be completed along with a regular job or study.
The course is broken down into five modules:
- Module 1: Introduction to state of environment, the sustainable development goals (SDGs), trends and significance of data for effective communication and informed decision making
- Module 2: Finding the right data (includes maps) on environment and development for in-depth research
- Module 3: Data processing and analysis to make data meaningful
- Module 4: Creating interactive data visualizations, maps and dashboards
Key requirements
All participants would require:
- A computer/laptop
- A high-speed internet connection
COURSE DIRECTOR
Kiran Pandey
Programme director, Information Management, CSE
Email: kiran@cseindia.org
Phone: +91-9871215338
COURSE COORDINATOR
Susan Chacko
Manager,
Information Management, CSE
Email: susan@cseindia.org
Phone: +91-9958387577
