The UN Global Platform was developed using open source and proprietary software to enable the production of economic indicators. Using GeoMesa, Kafka, GeoServer, Python and some analytics. An indicator of pending COVID doom was provided as an indicator the UK Treasury, Cabinet Office and Bank of England. This enabled savings of at least £12Bn for the UK economy. Post the 2008 financial crisis it was identified that AIS shipping location data was a good indicator of pending doom. The UN Global Platform developed a location analytics platform for analysing AIS and ADSB data in real-time. When the call came from the UK Government to ask what the impact of COVID-19 would have on the economy, the Platform use used to develop economic indicators of pending doom. Authors and Affiliations – Mark Craddock Co-Founder & CTO Global Certification and Training Ltd Previously, Director UN Global Platform Track – Use cases & applications Topic – Data collection, data sharing, data science, open data, big data, data exploitation platforms Level – 1 - Principiants. No required specific knowledge is needed. Language of the Presentation – English