Abstract

The presentation will draw on the cases and recommendations regarding data localisation that emerged from the forthcoming Elgar Companion to Data and Indicators for the SDGs. It begins with delineating the forms that contextualisation can take. It then brings together and categorises the empirical demonstrations of contextualisation from across the book, and finally draws on the authors’ recommendations for, and challenges to, methodological and structural improvements to the process of contextualising the SDGs, including from the chapters on localisation and Earth observation, from several SDGs, and from governance and measurement practices emerging from diverse national contexts.