Data Needs for Accelerating Progress in Corporate Sustainability Workshop to be held in Washington, DC during January 2010.

本次研讨会将有大约30位来自公共和私营部门的学者和个人参加。讨论将侧重于指导与可持续性有关的有效政策和坚定战略的数据需求。如果没有这样的研讨会，这种关于企业可持续发展的学术研究人员、政府官员和企业领导人之间的合作可能就不会发生。这一事件可能发生在2010年1月。一名研究人员将完成对现有公司可持续性相关数据集的评估，并在研讨会之前通知与会者。研讨会的一个主要目标是制定一项行动计划，以收集与会者认为至关重要的数据。活动结束后，研究人员将与合作伙伴一起开始数据收集过程。数据需求研讨会的目标是：-促进学术界与公共和私人组织之间的合作，就企业可持续发展问题进行严格的学术研究的数据需求；-确定具体的数据需求和收集数据所需的资源；-减少冗余并确定最大化利用数据收集资源的方法。

This workshop will be a gathering of approximately 30 academics and individuals from both the public and private sector. The discussion will focus on data needs to guide effective policies and firm strategies related to sustainability. Without such a workshop, this type of collaboration between academic researchers on corporate sustainability, government officials and corporate leaders would likely not take place.The event will likely occur in January, 2010. An assessment of existing corporate sustainability-related data sets will be completed by a researcher and communicated to attendees prior to the workshop. A primary goal of the workshop will be to develop an action plan for collecting the data determined by the attendees to be essential. Subsequent to the event, the researcher will engage with partners to begin the data collectionprocess.The goals of the Data Needs workshop are to:-Foster collaboration between academics and both and public and private organizations regarding data needs for rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues;-Identify specific data needs and the resources necessary to collect them;-Reduce redundancy and identify ways to maximize use of data collection resources.