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LONDON, Dec. 14,
2023 /PRNewswire/ - CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX:
GIB.A) announced today its partnership with Google Cloud to
deliver the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO) Sustainability Planet Platform, a
data-driven source for countries to identify sustainability
challenges such as air pollution, rising temperatures, and
flooding. The platform is designed to support UNIDO's unique
mandate to promote, dynamize, and accelerate inclusive and
sustainable industrial development.
The Sustainability Planet Platform will enable UNIDO member
states and other stakeholders to view UNIDO's projects and
partnerships, as well as industrial development statistics data
through a new lens. Mapped against CGI and Google Cloud's historic
geospatial and sociological data sets, as well as against
forecasted data generated through artificial intelligence (AI), it
will be possible for users to predict possible future impacts of
environmental change.
Ciyong Zou, Deputy to the Director General and the Managing
Director of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and
Sustainable Industrial Development of UNIDO, said: "The launch of
the Sustainability Planet Platform is a huge milestone for our
member states looking to address complex climate and sustainability
challenges.
"The platform will act as a single source of up-to-date and
comprehensive sustainability data, showing the current efforts that
UNIDO is making, where they are taking place, and what their impact
is. What Google Cloud and CGI are helping us to deliver is an
accessible platform that simplifies complex data, allowing users to
see patterns in the data to date and predict future trends,
ultimately helping to direct further sustainability."
The platform integrates data from multiple sources, including
temperature data and other satellite data such as Landsat, which is
used in agriculture; land use and water resources data from CGI's
Sustainability Exploration and Environmental Data Science (SEEDS)
program; data from Google Cloud's Earth Engine; and UNIDO's data on
its global projects. Users will be able to assess progress with the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not only at the
country-level, but also in relation to specific sectors such as
steel and concrete.
Teddra Burgess, Director Civilian
Sales, Google Cloud Public Sector, said: "We are proud of this
collaboration with CGI to create the Sustainability Planet
Platform, UNIDO's first fully comprehensive data set, showcasing
all its sustainability efforts and interventions across every
territory. We look forward to working with CGI to continue to
deliver sustainability outputs using cutting-edge technology and
comprehensive planet data to enable further achievements towards
global sustainability development goals."
Tara McGeehan, President, CGI in
the UK and Australia, said: "At
CGI, we apply the latest innovations in technology to address a
range of sustainability challenges, and we are pleased to be
working alongside UNIDO to help them provide concrete and practical
solutions to pressing global challenges."
CGI and UNIDO will sign a joint declaration to collaboratively
identify innovative initiatives through CGI's SEEDS program to
develop proof-of-concept solutions benefiting member states,
businesses, and individuals. The agreement also includes supporting
UNIDO's digital transformation efforts to improve operations and
efficiency and working towards supporting UNIDO's beneficiaries in
providing innovative and digital solutions.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest
independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
With 91,500 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI
delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT
and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and
business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI
works with clients through a local relationship model complemented
by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform
their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2023
reported revenue is $14.30 billion
and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB).
Learn more at cgi.com.
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