“[In the Netherlands] there is so much goodwill for connections, contacts, funding and the perception of entrepreneurship is very positive, which helps a lot especially during the first steps of a start-up, which are the most difficult,” - Alexander Gunkel, Space4Good Most entrepreneurs dream of their companies becoming unicorns, worth billions of dollars and employing thousands of people. Alexander Gunkel, the CEO and Founder of Space4Good, has different aspirations and drea

Space4Good and World Bank collaborate on the Big Data NO2 Socio-Economic Observatory With the slowing of human mobility - and as a result, economic activity - across the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution has declined significantly in several countries, namely China, Italy, South Korea, and the United Kingdom (Figure 1). Figure 1. Nitrogen Dioxide emissions over China December through March 2020. Source: European Space Agency (ESA). Full animation available her

This year at the 2020 Data for Peace & Security Conference in Den Haag, we met The Carter Center, which is a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter that works on – among other things – resolving conflicts, strengthening democracy, and bolstering human rights across the globe. We connected over remote sensing and geospatial analysis to monitor and support conflict resolution in war-torn regions. As the Carter team had an interest