1-Day PM Activity Details

Prime Minister PolicyMaker 😁

Time ⏳: 45 mins

Background :

Policymakers are people who are responsible for formulating policies and making policy decisions.  UN has come up with 17 Sustainable development goals across domains with around 167 targets to transform the world. And it is upon policymakers, government officials, researchers, and data scientists to help achieve these sustainable targets by identifying key problem areas and their factors, collecting, processing, and analyzing relevant historic and current data to provide necessary insights to make informed decisions by designing policies for sustainable development.

Karnataka Data Lake is an ongoing project serving as the Data Analytics partner for the Department of Planning and Statistics, Karnataka. 

This activity brings you an exciting opportunity to be a Policymaker for a day

If you’ve made a PolicyMaker for a day 🤔, how do you approach, understand and resolve the problem? 🧐 What policy and budget decisions will you make to build a sustainable society and achieve an SDG target? 🤓

The Task :

The activity requires participants to be divided among groups.

Each group is presented with a problem statement for a region. Considering the data and analysis provided by the KDL site or any other sources, the team should design the policies to help achieve the UN’s Sustainable development target not limited to the below questions but can be based on your expertise.

By the end of the activity, each group should present a case study by performing the below tasks ✅

  1. Explain the problem statement, its relevant SDG Target, and the Karnataka context for the given target.
  2. Investigate factors leading to the problem. Observe if there is a pattern w.r.t the district’s neighboring regions.
  3. If you are given a budget of 20 crores / 2 Million to reach the SDG target for the district. How will you allocate the budget for improving different factors leading to the problem?
  4. Based on your analysis so far, please suggest policies/schemes/action items that help improve the factors affecting the problem sustainably.
  5. Present your case study (ppt or doc) with relevant references, visualizations (optional), dashboards (optional), and datasets (optional) and justify your budget and policy decisions.

(A sample Example is provided for reference purposes.)

References :

Please form groups based on your familiarity with the below SDG Goals. Through this activity, we would love to hear your group’s narratives in solving and achieving the SDG targets not limited to just using the dashboards, but any research papers/reports/news articles/personal or professional expertise.

(*Please note that our volunteers will be around in case of queries or if any help is required to solve/present the problem)

  1. Bidar district is reported to have less Rice production compared to the state’s average
  2. Koppal district has reported having less Wheat production compared to the state’s average.
  1. Vijayanagar district has reported a high IMR compared to the state’s average.
  2. Haveri district reported a high MMR compared to the state’s average.
  3. Kalburgi district reported high U5MR compared to the state’s average.
  1. Vijayanagar district reported high secondary dropouts compared to the state’s average.
  2. Shivmoga district reported high girls’ dropout rate compared to the state’s average.

Niharika Sri Parasa

Niharika is a full-time MS by research student at Web Science Lab.
She has 3 years of industry experience in RPA, building virtual bots using the UiPath tool. She holds a Bachelors’s degree in Civil engineering from VRSEC.
Her research interests are Computational Cognition, Network Science for Web, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep learning techniques.
 
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