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 MetaGovernance is an suite of cloud-based applications that deals with SDG challenges and provides a solution to tackle conflicts between public policies and create synergetic combinations at all level of governance

Software as a service — SaaS — uses the internet to securely deliver software solutions. SaaS is one of the recent paradigm shifts in the software industry. Software-as-a-service is accessed through the Internet, eliminating complex computing infrastructure provisioning and maintenance tasks for organizations. 

MetaGovernance Apps are built using a SaaS provider, therefore, the purchaser of the license will benefit from 

1. Affordable: It will help public sector organizations to cut their operational and maintenance costs.. Issues such as scaling, performance, uptime, general maintenance, and disaster recovery are all handled by the provider, meaning the purchaser no longer needs to spend precious budget on software issues.
2. Efficient: The cloud solution deployment time is significantly less compared to on-premise systems. No hardware cost means you do not have to spend additional time procuring and installing IT infrastructure and VPN access across multiple systems within your organization. You can add more users as your business grows without ever thinking about implementing or adding the hardware. Cloud-based systems are assembled efficiently to provide maximum network performance and are also adaptive to organisation needs, unlike on-premise software applications where speed and performance are -critical.
3. Flexible: The platform is extremely scalable in terms of updates or new versions. Whenever there is a new update, it is implemented right away for clients.
4. Accessibility: One of the most important features of the platform is its easy access from any part of the world at any time. The Platform is simple for users with permission to access any and all important data with just a few clicks.
5. Customization: We customise the Platform per your needs and requirements without affecting the main infrastructure. 
6. Cloud architecture: SaaS is a cloud computing environment. Data and encryption keys reside with the third-party provider, so if the unexpected happens and there is downtime, you can still access that data. It is still your data. 
7. Easy to deploy: The Platform runs on a cloud environment so it is simple to deploy. Unlike on-premise software where you have to deploy the hardware in order to run it with your processes.
8. Minimal data loss: The risk of losing data is extremely rare. With real-time backups, data is readily available at all times. Data recovery is also covered allowing for disaster recovery strategies should the unexpected happen.

When budgets are determined by population, smaller regions can have fewer resources to invest in technology and software solutions that can increase constituent access to services and help improve communities. The use of on-premises or consultant-implemented software can exacerbate ongoing technology inequities between urban and rural regions. The bigger your budget, the more sophisticated your on-prem solution can be.

Because any specific improvements or additions made to a SaaS solution are scaled to every customer regardless of size, SaaS emerges as the more equitable option for technology solutions in the public sector. With SaaS, features and improvements added to a solution driven by the needs of the biggest jurisdictions are instantly available to the smallest cities and counties, irrespective of their budget. Since taxpayers ultimately bear the cost of government purchases, this is an important distinction from on-premises and consultant-driven solutions. SaaS levels the playing field, delivering equal access to technology solutions. The result? Better lives for all citizens.

• Informing policymakers and feeding into the strategic and planning

Evidence generated through SDG assessment can inform better policies and provide decision makers, managers and planners with lessons about what is working to achieve the SDGs and why, what are their unintended positive and negative consequences, their environmental, economic, social and political sustainability and their relevance to the needs of intended beneficiaries. 

• Influencing the political debate

While local and national authorities can use learning from the platform assessments and analysis to improve programming, policymaking and service provision, parliamentarians and civil society can use findings to make governments accountable and influence decision making. Parliamentarians can play a unique role in promoting evaluation and use it to carry out their oversight function. Indeed, they “could strive for coordinated efforts across government that respond to the SDGs’ complexity and interconnectedness and avoid piecemeal policymaking 

The assessments carried on metapolicy platform can inform the country’s VNR providing valuable evidence and analysis about the effectiveness, relevance and sustainability of different policies. UN recommends that "As part of its follow-up and review mechanisms, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encourages member states to conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national and sub-national levels, which are country-led and country-driven" 

However, despite this recommendation, very few countries have fed evaluation findings into their VNR preparations to date. This evaluation gap highlights the risk that countries will passively report data gathered for the indicators rather than analyse it within the context of national planning, decision making and successful implementation.  

MetaGovernance Platform allows an active involvement of the SDGs stakeholders in the evaluation process. This involvement that can occur at any stage of the evaluation process, from the evaluation design to the data collection, anallysis and reporting, enable policymaking ownership, learning, change and mutual accountability. 

The online assessment tools are drawn from the work of UN Agencies (sch as UNDP, UNICEF, FAO, UNESCO, UNHAbitat..) Intenational organisations (such as OCDE, ..), Local governments, Academia. Standard Performance indicators have been added to those tools to enable the creation of dashboards to visualise the results and make it easy to benchmark findings from different sub-assessments

While the system provides guidance to the use of tools and their references for self-training, we can address the capacity building in specific tools upon request