This would show the amount, location, and number of people who speak heirloom languages. this of course could be connected to a broader display of heirloom cultures.
Ancient ways, including languages and dance, still have much to provide the rest of the people of the Earth.

this would be a map of the locations of commercial, but more important, residential installations of sustainable energy systems.

Solar, wind tidal, biomass, GSHP, etc.

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As resources become more of an issue, more people will migrate for economic regions. this should be shown in a different metric than refugees of war and disaster. The flow of people over borders is a telling metric

I would totally think so, but there is an incredible amount of data that will be provided by the UN. we are tasked with helping decide what data is most relevant to the Dashboard and how it should be displayed.

Great point on rain water!! I believe you have brought up a point about the sub flavors of potable and non potable water and their methods of collection/usage.

I was considering well water once considered poisoned, but now can be treated with current technologies. Kind of the "oil shale/ sand" of the water world. As water potable water becomes more scarce/critical, it will be helpful to have surveyed the nonpotable sources (including at some point seawater) and compared them with appropriate new methods of "water mining", treating previously untapped non potable water sources.

Thanks for the contribution Caroline!!

Even though many metrics are gathered on an annual or monthly basis, as much as possible should be "realtime" data.

I would like to see how Net access architecture is being built around the Earth. I would like to be able to highlight the need to get many low income /developing communities access to the leverage and power towards self resiliency that Net access can provide