Mission and objectives

The Frontier Tech Leaders Programme is a joint initiative of UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (ICPSD) SDG AI Lab and UN Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries and supported by the Government of Türkiye. The Frontier Tech Leaders Programme aims to raise a new generation of tech specialists to strengthen local capacities and develop digital solutions for the LDCs (Least Developed Countries) towards achieving the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Furthermore, the initiative will inspire young people as well as promote gender equality, encouraging women to pursue tech education and careers.

Context

As part of the Frontier Tech Leaders Programme, volunteers will contribute to the programme’s technical activities by maintaining and improving GitHub repositories related to SDG-focused projects—particularly the Digital Solutions for Sustainable Development Goals (DS4SDGs)—and ensuring regular updates to relevant content. This involves managing issues, supporting contributions, pushing updates, and keeping documentation and resources aligned with project objectives. In addition, the DS4SDGs content is being reshaped to highlight sustainable tourism, demonstrating how data and digital solutions can support responsible travel and economic development in vulnerable regions.

Task Description

The online volunteer will be responsible for: Monitoring, reviewing, and resolving issues raised on the GitHub repositories associated with the Frontier Tech Leaders Programme. Ensuring timely review and merging of pull requests, verifying the alignment of contributions with the repository goals. Finding sustainable tourism based dataset and using this dataset update the notebook related data science for sdg Coordinating with programme leads to implement repository updates and new features as required.

Competencies and values

Living conditions and remarks