Geoinformation technologies for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract

From the first days of independence, Kazakhstan has paid attention to sustainable development and successfully achieved the Millennium Development Goals and in 2015 launched the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The article discusses the issues of monitoring and reporting on the SDGs in Kazakhstan, the priority of nationalization of indicators, the creation of a statistical database on the SDGs, the definition of data sources, and methodology for calculation. Geospatial data are inevitable for the integration of information about society, economy and environment. A web-portal developed by the authors is presented that allows to assess the quality of life of the population in different regions based on the SDG indicators.