Patrick Merlot
Data Science, Computational Science, Electronic Systems, IoT, Mobile Communication, Dialectical materialism
The United Nations Treaties
DataForGood season #1
27 nov. 2018
Anastasiia Filchenko
Dirk Hesse
Geir Arne Hjelle
John Melin
Kleng Bråtveit
Patrick Merlot
"The United Nations (UN) is
the closest thing we have to
a world government"
- founded on a legal document (The UN Charter),
- a Court to resolve disputes between members,
- a Parliament of states (the General Assembly),
- and crucially, it can authorize collective enforcement of its will (via the Security Council)
Our international law are
based on UN Treaties & Custom
In Donald Trump vs International Law, Who is Winning?
http://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/in-donald-trump-v-international-law-who-is-winning/
Our
Mission
Remind country leaders about the treaties & push them
to ratify more of them
By ratifying the Paris Agreement, the United States and China, the world's two largest carbon emitters, brought the treaty a lot closer to becoming enforceable international law.
(Sept, 7th 2016)
Bring attention to the treaties:
- with impactful visualizations,
- using social media.
World Resources Institute (WRI) - Jan. 2018
https://twitter.com/WorldResources/status/951099450793000961
Our Goal
World Resources Institute (WRI) - Jan. 2018
https://twitter.com/WorldResources/status/951099450793000961
Our Goal
Bring attention to the treaties:
- with impactful visualizations,
- using social media.
World Resources Institute (WRI) - Jan. 2018
https://twitter.com/WorldResources/status/951099450793000961
Our Goal
Bring attention to the treaties:
- with impactful visualizations,
- using social media.
https://treaties.un.org
UN Treaty on the
High Seas
Law of the Sea
https://treaties.un.org
UN Treaty on the
High Seas
Convention on the High Seas
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas
https://treaties.un.org
UN Treaty on the
High Seas
Where is
Norway?
Convention on the High Seas
UN Treaty on the
High Seas
Where is
Norway
again?
Convention on Fishing & Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas
https://treaties.un.org
Our Goals for 2018
-
Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
Goals 2018
- Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
Build Google Search for the UN treaties
Goals 2018
- Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
- Simplify legal jargon
- use NLP to generate text summaries
Goals 2018
- Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
XKCD style to explain:
legal processes, historical context of a treaty, FAQ!
Goals 2018
Interactive & pedagogical visualizations
Costa Rica and Mexico win the World Cup for Disarmament
https://aoav.org.uk/2014/world-cup-for-disarmament-2014/
Goals 2018
- Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
Play Ego Games
a leaderboard for our leaders who signed/ratified the most
Goals 2018
- Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/f1435a8e-372b-11e7-bce4-9023f8c0fd2e
Event-based reminder of a treaty's status on social media
Goals 2018
- Make information about the UN Treaties more accessible to people
- Incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties
70 Ways the UN Makes A Difference https://www.un.org/un70/en/content/70ways
Incentives by examples
Map the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to the treaties
Our work this season
pip install un-treatiesMostly done parsing https://treaties.un.org
Our work this season
Empty API for non-python developers
What's next?
- build visualizations
(leaderboard, pedagogical graphs) - build a Twitter bot to remind about un-ratified
- call cartoonists for help
- build tools to help monitor violations of UN treaties
The Team
John
Anastasiia
Dirk
Geir Arne
Patrick
Kleng
United Nation Treaties (DfG 2018)
By Patrick Merlot
