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Promoting data apply: a primal challenge for statisticians
December 16, 2021
Data, in and of itself, is useless unless it significantly and extensively contributes to informing central public and individual decisions. But promoting data use is one of the greatest challenge faced by statisticians working either in national or international organizations, for several reasons. While data producers are entities easy to identify and target, data users are a scattered, heterogeneous group, which are often isolated from decision-making processes. Moreover, at that place is a persistent advice gap between data producers and information users, in general, and more than particularly, between the statistical community and the policy-making community.
A Globe of Open up Information Bridges for Women
December 16, 2021
Connecting across the earth, the Africa Open Information Collaborative hosted a U.N. World Data Forum sentry political party. Blending in-person and virtual options, about 30 people across several countries and continents joined to listen in on the session "Empowering Women to Bring together the Data Revolution to Improve Lives" on Oct 5. Combining Zoom and Bespeak to augment the in-person group in Nairobi, Kenya, this sentinel party was an heady extension of the meetings African Open up Information Collaboratives hosts each calendar month.
Improving Admission to Healthcare Facilities Through Geoinformation and Crowdsourcing
December 7, 2021
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything over the past year, it is how important our healthcare system is. Everyone should accept access to a physician and know how to get to the nearest hospital in an emergency. To assist accomplish this, the Heidelberg Establish of Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) has developed the Open up Healthcare Access Map, a web application that calculates accessibility to healthcare infrastructure by combining traffic data with that infrastructure. Additional information near population distribution provides the user with insights into the health care supply in sure regions. By aggregating the data on an administrative level using hexagons, the Open Healthcare Access Map is able to paint an accurate motion picture of the spatial distribution of healthcare in a country. Though currently a epitome, the application supports over 80 different countries in various parts of the world.
Composite information for the SDGs – is this the answer?
Dec vii, 2021
In 2021, GCERF adult an interactive data platform to help it better identify potential areas for programming in Nigeria. To practise this, nosotros used automobile learning to aggregate data from dozens of sources and then produce indicators of fragility, vulnerability, and susceptibility to violent extremism. These indicators cut across ecology, social, political, economical, and a range of other factors. Access to such expansive data coverage raised the question: how tin this be used more than widely? Is a composite information alphabetize the answer for cross-SDG programming and sustainable advocacy?
The Power of Open-Source Data to Prevent Vehement Extremism through Peace and Inclusion (SDG 16)
November 6, 2021
Remember when the world watched airplanes wing into the Twin Towers on 9/11? And again, the shock, the horror, the dreadful realization of the devastation of attacks in Paris, London and Madrid; Indonesia, Norway and New Zealand?
Real-time SDG benchmarking and measurement using social media sentiment analysis
November four, 2021
Accurate measurement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is critical to achieving their implementation past 2030. The logic behind this is elementary – to brand bear witness-based decisions that will enable countries to meet the SDG targets, governments and policymakers need to accept a clear view of existing conditions and be able to track any progress – or backslide – that is being made.
A Global Electric current of Connected Ocean Data
November ii, 2021
The ocean connects all life on world. Agreement the state of the sea, predicting futurity weather, and assessing the tradeoffs across bounding main activities are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The body of water's global importance expands its reach far beyond SDG14 - Life Beneath Water; pocket-sized fisheries feed littoral communities and provide more than than 56 meg jobs for women, while Blueish Carbon plays a growing role in climate activeness. Achieving these goals requires an sea data arrangement as connected as the bounding main itself.
Using data creatively to ameliorate people's lives
November 2, 2021
Data is a modern wonder that has the potential to provide innovative, evidence-based answers to complex social problems. One ongoing concern, though, is that useful data is often less a gilt bar sparkling on a pedestal than a vein of ore hidden deep in a mountain. And simply earthworks out valuable information isn't plenty. We take to translate it, act on it, and deliver results, all the while upholding principles of ethics and privacy that maintain public trust.
Inclusive approaches to leaving no one behind: learnings from Pakistan
November 1, 2021
Pakistan is committed to fulfilling the vision of the 2030 Agenda and is the first country in the world to localise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) later a unanimous parliamentary resolution was passed in Feb 2016. Despite this commitment, there are still gaps in data systems that adequately collect, monitor and report on the needs of marginalised groups, particularly at provincial and district level. To tackle this claiming and strengthen the reporting, monitoring and implementation of the SDGs in Islamic republic of pakistan, the federal government ready a special section in the Ministry of Planning, Evolution and Special Initiatives to back up and augment SDG implementation in the country.
Earth observation increasingly integrated into local decision making
November ane, 2021
In 2018 I wrote well-nigh international cooperation across the global GEO community and how information technology supports the long-term sustainable evolution agenda. Fast forward 3 years and we are however working with the aforementioned partners with some additional supporters now engaged. The difference today is that we now have an operational service providing freely and openly available data for the unabridged continent of Africa. With support from the Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), the Commission on World Observation Satellites (CEOS) and Earth Observations for the SDGs (EO4SDG) initiative from the GEO piece of work programme, we take been able to help support and contribute to the successful evolution of Digital Earth Africa.
Should Might Make Correct? On data, norms and justice
October 29, 2021
The importance of new data sources for both human and economic development worldwide is clear. But where should the emphasis fall, on the economic opportunities of commoditising information and creating rules for its global trade that replicate, for instance, international financial assets or services? Or on the homo development opportunities tied to the local use and command over digital resource? What office does sovereignty play in defining how information can be used and shared, and how should we define sovereignty over the digital?
Earth'southward first platform to track SDG information financing launched at United Nations World Data Forum
October 29, 2021
On the kickoff day of the Un World Information Forum in Bern, Switzerland, the global data customs was introduced to the Clearinghouse for Financing Development Data: an innovative, free online platform that assist recipients, donors and others tin utilize to shut the stark information financing gap that is preventing progress towards the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Currently, two-thirds of national statistical offices urgently need more than funding to provide life-saving data amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, co-ordinate to the PARIS21 2020 Partner Report on Support to Statistics.
Transforming Census Results Publications into Analysis-Set Data: The IPUMS International Historical Geographic Data Arrangement (IHGIS)
October 27, 2021
National Statistical Offices (NSOs) normally publish big volumes of results reporting the findings of Population and Housing Censuses. These publications contain a wealth of demographic, socioeconomic, and housing information that tin be used for tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and for many other research and policy analysis applications.
Uncounted and Far From Home: The urgent call for ameliorate data to protect migrant and displaced children
Oct 27, 2021
In 2020, in that location were an estimated 36 million international child migrants globally -- the largest number ever recorded. Of those who accept been forcefully displaced within or across borders, two in 5 are children. These children often alive precarious lives, many experiencing serious violations of their rights. But pervasive data gaps exacerbate their deprivations and leave many of these children unprotected. The International Information Brotherhood for Children on the Move was formed to better statistics and data on migrant and forcibly displaced children and foster innovative solutions to the data challenges, ensuring no child is left backside.
Digital Connectivity and Women and Girls' Risk for Cyber-sexual Harassment in the COVID-xix Era
October 26, 2021
While the gendered digital divide – the greater availability and use of digital engineering for men compared with women – persists, the divide has declined nether the pandemic, with dramatic increases in women's admission to digital engineering science in low- and middle-income countries, in particular in S Asia. This connectivity increases education, opportunity and support for women and girls, but as highlighted in Un Women report on cyber-sexual harassment released early in the pandemic, greater reliance and use on digital connection can too consequence in increased gamble for digital violence against women.
The evolution of data innovation in the fight against hunger
Oct 26, 2021
When I joined the UN World Food Programme in 2003, war was unfolding apace in Darfur and as in any crisis, testify and data were urgently needed to inform the humanitarian response. Back then, 'no-become' zones were a fact of life: there were places that were literally impossible to admission considering of high levels of insecurity or insurmountable logistical constraints. Pregnant at that place were communities that no one could see living in circumstances that no one could monitor.
Open school information and quality education for all: Can citizen access to information make a difference?
October 22, 2021
In many countries, important statistical information about schools, which was previously only in the hands of public administrations, is gradually moving into the public sphere. In fact, inquiry by IIEP-UNESCO has identified more than l countries where open school data initiatives exist. Some of these have adult in large and highly populated countries, such equally India where the disclosure of schoolhouse-level data started as early as in the mid-1990s. Experience shows that the quantity and type of data shared with the public tends to increment over time. Open up school data can include everything from school upkeep, number of teachers and their qualifications, availability and status of facilities, to pupil learning outcomes – often gradually moving from indicators related to school inputs to indicators related more than to schoolhouse processes and finally, schoolhouse outputs.
Ethiopia's Experience: Empowering and improving the use of quality data for evidence-based decisions through capacity building and mentorship
Oct 25, 2021
Mr. Gizachew Gishu is caput of the Hawella health eye, 1 of the four wellness centers in the Hawella district of the Sidama region in Federal democratic republic of ethiopia. During his tenure at the health center, he grappled with how poor data quality and its use negatively impacted the provision of services. "In the health middle, at that place was lack of an effective process and practice of managing health information. Poor data recording and sharing practices resulted in information loss which mostly led to ill-informed actions."
Now is the Time to Close Gaps in Governance Statistics – And the Praia Grouping is ready for the challenge.
October 25, 2021
After a yr and a half of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it's nearly impossible to enlarge the importance and unprecedented need and demand for governance data. "Is testing and medical treatment for COVID-19 attainable to everyone without discrimination?" "What are the most common justice problems created or exacerbated by the pandemic for which people need help?" "To what extent are patients resorting to paying bribes to receive medical care earlier those unable to pay?" These headline-grabbing questions confronting leaders across the world can only exist responded to if timely and reliable governance statistics are available – and more often than not, they're not.
'No more data "apathetic blah". This is about empowerment.
Oct 22, 2021
"Data can empower vulnerable people by making their needs visible to decision-makers."
This is what many advocates for data for development have been saying for years. The logic is that with visibility comes force per unit area for policies that respond to the needs, and a tool to elicit accountability for failure to deliver on promises. After all, equally the saying goes: "skilful data makes it impossible to exercise zippo."
5 Lessons from a NSO: Strengthening Denizen Generated Data in Kenya
October 21, 2021
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in consultation with the relevant stakeholders is in the process of operationalizing the use of Citizen Generated Information for official reporting. As an NSO, we are interested in exploring the employ of CGD in society to fill existing information gaps, in item, in the monitoring and reporting of the SDG indicators. In addition, we see CGD as valuable in providing granular data for planning, monitoring and implementation of development initiatives at the sub-national and hyperlocal level. This is invaluable for tracking the progress of the decade former devolved system of government in Kenya.
Where are the numbers on Peaceful, Simply and Inclusive Societies?
October 21, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into abrupt relief why well-functioning, responsive governments at local and national levels, are fundamental to an effective response and recovery from the pandemic. In some countries, governments were quick to put in pandemic response measures that were effective in mitigating the crisis. In others, the response was inadequate, or the measures put in identify veered towards exploitative, mired in of corruption and mismanagement, resulting in the devastating loss of lives. The consequences of the pandemic have been felt deeply in terms of health and the economy but has also resulted in already fragile social contracts between citizen and land pushed to a breaking indicate in some contexts.
Understanding the world through data - UNDP Crisis Risk Dashboard
Oct xix, 2021
Decision-makers at every level require reliable data to make hazard-informed choices. With this goal in mind, back in 2016, a squad in UNDP started building a simple information repository to support an internal mechanism on crisis prevention and response. As they presented the project, it became immediately visible that the UNDP's needs went across giving staff easy access to data. The organisation needed a platform where data coming from unlike thematic areas could be continued, overlayed, and correlated. This realization led to the pattern of the Crisis Take chances Dashboard (CRD).
Overcoming a crucial gap: a collaborative approach to improving data on attacks against defenders
October nineteen, 2021
The killing of a human rights defender (HRD) represents a straight attack on civic space and an assault on the fundamental freedoms that underpin a sustainable, inclusive and peaceful order equally outlined in the 2030 Calendar for Sustainable Development.
Where are we on gender equality? A new SDG 5 tracker charts the way
October fourteen, 2021
The 2021 World Data Forum has once again brought us together, different stakeholders, united in the desire to make the world a amend place through data. Participants in this year's forum accept benefitted from discussions around innovations and synergies across data ecosystems as well as on new approaches to capacity development for better data. Equally the forum wraps up and nosotros all go back to some other twelvemonth of producing, collecting, analyzing and presenting data, the vow to Leaving no one backside in statistics, particularly women and girls in all their multifariousness must exist renewed and acted upon. With just 9 years left to achieve the Global Goals by 2030 and COVID-nineteen slowing progress, there's no fourth dimension to lose!
Using Machine Learning to Make Regime Spending Greener
October 14, 2021
The global community is facing a trio of urgent and interlinked planetary crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Financial policies that countries implement in this crucial super decade for action on climate and biodiversity volition play a vital role in the transition towards solving these crises and the creation of an Inclusive Green Economic system, if designed and targeted well.
Tackling vaccine inequity with multidimensional data
Oct 7, 2021
The COVID-19 vaccine coverage gulf between depression-income and high-income countries continues to counterbalance downward the global socio-economic recovery and reverse progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the commitment to leave no-one behind. From July to September 2021, approximately 115 million people in loftier-income countries received a vaccine dose compared to only x million people in depression-income countries.
A Global Data Convention to safeguard sustainable development
October 5, 2021
Data is the unmarried give-and-take that defines our age. Data are easily shared, duplicated, and traded, the glue that binds and drives the digital economy, the cloud, blockchain, the Net-of-Things, and fifty-fifty our politics. They offering promise but as well peril – they are a tool for liberation, only as well potentially a weapon for exploitation.
Data-driven evolution and its potential to transform lives: A new online course explores how information tin do good marginalized populations
October v, 2021
Malarvizhi Veerappan
Global data flows are expanding at an unprecedented rate, with data condign ubiquitous and therefore, making information technology critical to solving evolution bug. However much of the value of data remains untapped.
Leaving no one behind: how mobile large data can make an bear upon
October 4, 2021
Johanna Raudsepp
When the UN set the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the pledge to "go out no ane behind" became a central goal in all aspects of evolution. Yet, we know that progress cannot happen without the data to know how, why and what to develop. Effective action requires a precise agreement of the target population in distinct geographies. That is why accurate and inclusive data which tin measure out several aspects of evolution in a country is crucial to achieve this promise. COVID-19 has aggravated these concerns and increased the importance of integrating multiple data sources. As such, big information from mobile network operators, or mobile positioning data (MPD) tin make a meaning contribution to the SDGs.
KITE: An Brainchild Framework for Reducing Complexity in AI Governance
October iv, 2021
"Everything invented in the past 150 years will be reinvented using AI inside the next 15 years". Different any other technology, the ideals and governance of AI has become a key business concern every bit a event of its controlling ability.Social multifariousness, equity and inclusion are considered as key success factors to mitigate risks in AI while driving social justice. Sustainability has become a wide and complex topic for AI. Many organizations (government, not-for-profits, charities & NGOs) have their diversified strategies driving AI for both concern optimization and social justice. The partnerships and collaborations became important more than than e'er as diversified and distributed data is the source of AI while bias is the key risk. Therefore, considering of the telescopic, variety and complication of the applications in AI, the importance of an brainchild framework for simplifying and generalizing AI governance is credible.
Defining information stewardship
October 3, 2021
A conceptual framework and language around data stewardship should help us build a common understanding among different data and statistical communities on what it takes for establishing a system of resilient data governance that is congenital on stiff partnerships, well balanced between providing constructive data sharing and information privacy protection mechanisms and would help the states reap the social and economic benefits of information for our wide range of users. This will ensure that we go along up with the irresolute mural of the data ecosystem.
How GIS and Geography are Playing a Strategic Part in Implementing the SDGs
October 3, 2021
There are numerous reasons why GIS is playing a vital office in implementing and tracking progress on the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their many targets and indicators. Starting time, GIS and location provide i of the key technologies that enable people everywhere to track progress in their own countries and homelands at local levels too as at all other levels of geography worldwide. GIS information layers enable global citizens everywhere to explore and understand the relationships between diverse goals within and across virtually every locale.
Population information in postal service-pandemic era: invest in the vital registration system
September 30, 2021
Covid-19 coincided with the 2020-21 census round and has negatively affected census and survey operations effectually the world. According to a report submitted to the 52nd session of the UN Statistical Commission, 121 countries were working for the current round of demography and the majority of those reported that their census preparation was fully or partially affected by the Covid pandemic. Some countries had to postpone, and other countries were forced to cancel the demography operation altogether.For the first time in 100 years, Nepal had to postpone the demography. In many European countries, where population information drove is based on a continuously updated vital registration system, the census plan was not particularly affected.
Mapping Knowledge – Clear Information Transparency in a Complex Earth
June 10, 2021
The mentality towards the way we share our personal data online is changing. Nosotros are becoming more than educated about how organisations procedure and store the information we share. It could be argued that an air of naivety was attached to the mode nosotros would freely share sensitive data online, without questioning why nosotros were being asked for it, or how information technology would be used. Equally we move forward on the Road to Bern and the prepare for the 2021 United nations World Information Forum, it is worth exploring how information transparency is a vital, invaluable aspect to implement in an increasingly digital world.
Older people and age-disaggregated COVID-xix mortality information in low and middle-income countries.
Dec 1, 2020
Global and national health agencies do non always include older people in the way they develop, utilize and interpret information. For much of the HIV pandemic, information were not collected for people aged l or more than, based on the misguided view that older people were not at risk of infection. More than recently, older people have been excluded from mortality reporting and from WHO targets for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease and diabetes, even though they are disproportionately at hazard of dying from these weather. Has this bias inverse during the COVID-19 pandemic, given the strong association betwixt old age and take a chance of death?
An Investment for the Ages: Financing Gender Data to Meet Pandemic and Evolution Needs
November 18, 2020
The virtual 2020 United nations World Data Forum (UNWDF), which convened x,000 participants over three days in October, left u.s.a. feeling increasingly optimistic well-nigh gender data. Not only did it provide a ripe environment for discussing the importance of gender data, it set the stage for taking much-needed action on financing amend gender data systems. Nosotros know that without adequate financial resource, we tin can't make progress on noun gender data drove and apply.
Data for what? Informing policymaking for forced deportation
October 28, 2020
As we mark the World Statistics Solar day on Oct 20, 2020, the global deportation crisis is at its all-time loftier. Currently, ane per cent of the world'south estimated vii.8 billion people are forcibly displaced persons[1] who have been forced to flee their homes or communities in search of rubber inside or across borders, escaping persecution, violence, armed conflict, terrorism, homo rights violations and abuses, the adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters, or a combination of these factors.
Shaping the data governance landscape: A multi-sectoral approach to use, protection, and inclusive digital transformation
Oct 28, 2020
COVID-xix has brought to the fore a number of disquisitional information concerns from the lack of timely and disaggregated data to monitor the virus, to underinvestment in statistical systems, to problems effectually data governance and use.
Investment in Data – Why should it be a Priority to All
October 21, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the earth witnessed this rare global interest in data, merely not whatsoever data. The world needed accurate; timely; and relevant data to begin treatment the crises, and Palestine was no exception.The Palestinian economy is vulnerable. Information technology has been exposed to a series of ongoing shocks that have weakened its ability to exist resilient against internal and external crises, like the pandemic. Official statistics are crucial to agreement the effects of such crises on vulnerable sectors of the population and intervention measurement.
Trust in data: "If you build information technology, they will come"
October 21, 2020
It may be redundant to say at this point that trust plays a key part in the production and apply of data. During times of pandemic, data has been at the center of the scene. Issues of consistency, timeliness and comparability of the data have created, in many cases, skepticism in the population, which in turn, afflicted the effectiveness of authorities's response actions. These experiences revalue the role played by the recommendations of good practices for the production and broadcasting of data, especially in strengthening credibility.
A Data-Driven Approach past the Private Sector to Achieve the SDGs
Oct 19, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched with two striking realizations; firstly that that the individual sector must exist engaged to achieve them; and secondly, that progress needs to be measurable. Annually, the Secretary General releases an annual report on SDG Progress where it was explicitly stated 'the availability of timely, disaggregated data across all countries and all targets and indicators to inform the nowadays report remains a challenge. Therefore finding innovative ways to make full these gaps is critical, and leveraging the private sector to do this makes sense.
Data for sector-broad modify
Oct 16, 2020
This yr's Un World Data Forum finds us at a time of cracking unrest and defoliation. We are in the grips of a global pandemic, and it demands that we have reliable information at our fingertips and lightning speed efficiency. Nosotros need data and algorithms on our side where they tin can be helpful to better sympathise the land of play and to react speedily. However, we know that no single party nor any single data science project that can brand a divergence lone.
How to ensure gender data really drives equality for girls and women
October 16, 2020
For champions of gender equality who are cracking to back upwardly our demands with data and evidence, gender data gaps are a familiar problem. When it comes to problems that impact women and girls, too frequently nosotros don't have enough data, or data is non sufficiently disaggregated, or not timely. Only 12 of the 53 gender-specific indicators across the SDGs can be regularly monitored.
Measuring modern slavery
Oct 16, 2020
Generally speaking, Modern Slavery could be divers as severe exploitation of other people for their business organisation gains. Millions of children and adults are trapped in slavery in every single state in the world. Modern Slavery is a complex phenomenon: mostly, illegal and hidden. It is difficult to take the right political decisions, without any statistical evidence, data and data. Therefore, policy-makers demand reliable data to act against Mod Slavery.
What tin can the IMMP tell us nosotros don't already know?
October 14, 2020
A new multidimensional poverty measure, initially known equally the Individual Impecuniousness Measure out, is contributing to a improve understanding of the patterns of poverty in information-poor Districts in Indonesia. But what can this measure, now renamed the Individual Measure of Multidimensional Poverty (IMMP), add to our agreement of poverty in already data-rich environments?
Leave no 1 backside: why gender disaggregated data matters
October 14, 2020
We tin can only set what we know only the reality is what we know is oftentimes limited by the data we have and the level of disaggregation of this information. The reality is that ofttimes nosotros take data on those who visibly occupy or are close to positions of privilege in identity whether based on race or gender, also every bit their admission to resources, higher levels of education, their social status and ability to maneuver in a system of patriarchal privilege.
Integrate intersecting inequalities to leave no one behind
Oct 13, 2020
A guiding principle of the 2030 Calendar for Sustainable Evolution, "leaving no i behind" is one of the main themes of this twelvemonth's World Data Forum (19–21 October). Zeroing in on gender statistics in particular, I'd similar to focus on iii interrelated trends that have emerged in this regard – intersectionality, the environment and applied science.
Tapping into the Value of Data for Better Lives
Oct 13, 2020
Ongoing soapbox on governments' response to COVID-19 emphasizes the crucial role of data in saving lives and protecting livelihoods. As more than regime institutions and evolution projects foray into the art of the possible with new data sources, it is of import to address underlying systemic conditions that hamper constructive adoption of data innovations. This includes issues around effective data access and data processing, likewise equally the need for guiding principles and protocols for both current and future responses.
The power of community-driven data – why partnerships are crucial to tackling gender violence during Covid-19
Oct 12, 2020
Globally 243 one thousand thousand women and girls have been subjected to sexual and/or physical violence past an intimate partner in the past 12 months. As Covid-19 continues to affect all our lives, the impact on women and girls is stark. Many countries are reporting shocking increases in cases of violence against women and girls, which has been referred to as the 'shadow pandemic' by Un Women. The UNFPA estimates that the pandemic volition cause a one-third reduction in progress towards ending gender-based violence by 2030, and predicts an additional xv million cases of gender-based violence for every iii months of lockdown.
Tools to enable UN Member States at national and local level to use World observations to aid deliver SDG xi and the New Urban Agenda
October 12, 2020
Sustainable Development Goal xi, likewise known as the urban SDG, aims to make cities and human being settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. As the sole SDG focusing on cities, information technology underscores the importance and relevance of local and subnational perspectives to the achievement of sustainable development worldwide. In addition to Goal 11, the New Urban Agenda (NUA) recognizes the increasing office of cities and local communities in the implementation and localization of the SDGs, in an integrated way.
Who is being left behind in COVID-19 information?
Oct 8, 2020
Information and statistics on COVID-19 are helping countries to empathise the pandemic situation, to program and make-conclusion, and to anticipate future pandemic dynamics. For about countries, data is driving strategies for dealing with the pandemic - having practiced data (from testing, contact tracing, symptom checking) is ane of the key differences between countries that are succeeding in containing the coronavirus.
Improving last mile delivery of public services by leveraging digitized data
Oct 5, 2020
The 2030 Calendar for Sustainable development underscores the importance of coming together evolution goals and targets for all people, specially, "...reach outset those who are furthest behind." Vulnerable groups such as refugees, ultra-poor, migrants, persons with disabilities ofttimes have the lowest share of development benefits, and are about at take a chance from any economical, health, or climatic change shocks
When the information terminate: Five lessons for data-driven decision-making in crises
Oct 2, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals presented us with an important mandate: to achieve measurable progress, leave no one behind, and leverage the latest innovations to attain the global goals through information and evidence-driven policies. The COVID-19 global crisis has highlighted data'southward crucial and transformative potential.
A data-driven future for trade governance and sustainable development
September 30, 2020
For digital technology to assist governments in coming together the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), public service models require access to quality, timely, sources of data. Traditionally, data in the form of outcomes, or statistics, has been used to inform and target policies, only greater utility may come from using information as an input.
Not all information is created equal: the case for private-level, gender-sensitive, multidimensional poverty data to support an inclusive COVID recovery.
September 28, 2020
As the fallout from the economic and social impacts of the COVID-xix pandemic comes into sharper relief economists, development experts and women'south rights advocates are highlighting that work to reduce inequalities and progress women'due south rights over the by 25 years is being rapidly undone.
Planning for equitable access to health infrastructure?
September 23, 2020
Resource-poor regions around the world have been suffering from inequitable health infrastructure for decades. As we look forrad to the 2020 Virtual UN World Data Forum (Oct xix-21, 2020), infirmary accessibility planning falls squarely inside Thematic Area ii: "Leaving No Ane Behind."
Sharing data in the time of covid-nineteen
September 21, 2020
The COVID-nineteen pandemic has democratized the apply of data to inform people'due south decisions and to aid them make sense of the state of affairs we find ourselves in. At the commencement of the pandemic, people watched balked as crimson circles ballooned over a dark world map, displaying the power of dashboards to communicate and visualize information.
What information skills should universities exist teaching students aspiring to make a difference in global development?
September 18, 2020
Data skills are necessary for realising for the information revolution in development, as reflected in the attention devoted to activities increasing data and statistical literacy and data communication at the UN World Data Forum
Building trust with ethics of data sharing
September 14, 2020
The world is increasingly getting driven past information. Data analysis is providing organizations with unimaginable insights, helping them to introduce, excel and abound. Be information technology crunch management or preparing for the future, the power of data is bringing in a new level of excellence in each aspect of our lives.
With crunch comes innovation: How COVID-19 is irresolute National Statistical Systems
September xiv, 2020
The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has demanded that governments reply at breakneck speed to limit the human being and economical costs of the crisis.And the scale of authorities response is unprecedented - a staggering 11 trillion USD in fiscal support provided by 55 countries in a matter of months – as is the demand for timely data to ensure that resources are targeted where they are most needed.
Without more than and better funding for development information, we face up a decade of inaction. How can we make each assistance dollar go farther
September 9, 2020
During 2020-2021, three-quarters of the world's countries will be conducting a census. This amazing and unprecedented information collection effort comes amidst a time of boggling incertitude.The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously disrupted the power of many countries to collect, analyze and use data and, despite the challenges that they face up
Trends in national information ecosystems in times of COVID-xix
July sixteen, 2020
'Liberty from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human being rights', said the late Un Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Right at present we're all living in doubt and fear of a new virus with no cure.
From COVID-19 to the data revolution: What are geospatial data partnerships organized by NSOs suggesting?
June 22, 2020
As the fierce coronavirus leaves a mortiferous trail behind, it also creates challenges and opportunities to innovate in official information and statistics. Integration of geospatial information with statistics can help to better understand the spatial behaviour of a global phenomenon like a pandemic. This makes it a great tool for decision making in the brusk term likewise as for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development over the adjacent decade.
The United nations World Data Forum 2020 -- bringing together data producers and users in Bern
Jan 27, 2020
With the beginning of the New year's day, it is less than ix months until we get together in Bern, Switzerland for the UNWDF 2020.
Un Earth Data Forum reaching for new heights in Dubai
October nineteen, 2018
As information leaders from around the world gather in the city of the Burj Khalifa, the United nations World Data Forum itself is reaching for new heights, both in the generation of new collaborations and outcomes.
Operationalising mobile phone network data for evolution and humanitarian action
October 17, 2018
How has mobile network data been used to inform policy? What building blocks demand to be in place to leverage mobile phone network data for real-time policy analysis, decision making and touch tracking? UN Global Pulse and the Digital Touch on Brotherhood are excited to host a joint-session at the United nations World Data Forum in Dubai to explore the operational aspects of using mobile phone network data as a public practiced.
The power of new information sources: how to harness the private sector's part?
October fifteen, 2018
On the quest to establish and arrange the current data ecosystems to reflect the global sustainable development agenda and the SDGs, information technology has become essential to look beyond official data. The sustainability information that businesses disclose, whether on their environmental, social or fiscal impact, tin contribute to a more complete motion-picture show of progress on the SDGs. Yet, the question remains: How can we include business data on the SDGs within the electric current systems that measure out progress?
Data to change lives and save lives
Oct 12, 2018
I was hoping to have a healthy summer, simply due to a movement across continents and a vacation in the U.s. sampling diverse IPAs and burgers, my BMI went upward by a couple of points. My heart rate remains steady and my daily steps average 8k -- "not ideal", said 7 of my friends. Cheers to live data on my telephone and picket, I know what I will have to piece of work on in the weeks to come!
National data platforms for SDG reporting: Looking back and looking forrad
October 10, 2018
Since the launch of the 2030 Calendar, countries across all regions started planning for reporting information and statistics on the Un Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments are at different stages of this procedure: While some are developing their overall SDG monitoring plans and evaluating information availability, others are edifice national data platforms or leveraging regional information platforms. Dozens of countries have started to publish and disseminate data on the SDGs in this way － and all stakeholder communities stand to benefit from learning more than about their experiences and new efforts to implement SDG reporting.
Hybrid census to generate spatially-disaggregated population estimates
October 8, 2018
Housing demography data and up-to-engagement population data at subnational levels are some of the bones data needs any land should possess to ensure efficient planning and commitment of services, effective development programming, election grooming and timely response to disasters. In countries like Transitional islamic state of afghanistan, where we face challenges on dissimilar fronts, including the collection of timely data, access to recent and reliable local-level demographic data is challenging. National population data is outdated and excludes key groups. Similarly, high rates of migration and urban growth brand existing population data rapidly outdated.
The Inclusive Data Charter: what'due south it all near?
Oct 3, 2018
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a delivery to 'leave no one behind'. To live upward to this hope nosotros need timely, comprehensive, disaggregated information, to amend understand the situation of the poorest and most marginalised people worldwide. With robust disaggregated information, we can make better decisions that will positively bear upon the lives of people with disabilities.
SDG monitoring: data from ceremonious society
October 1, 2018
In March 2018, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) released its 2nd SDG study, 'The sustainable development goals: the state of affairs for the Netherlands', with data for 51% of the international SDG indicators, up from 33% in the first report. This jump -- from simply over ane third to over half of the indicators -- was the result of including data from civil lodge.
Suspicious minds -- trust and releasing the potential of public-private partnerships in statistical capacity development
September 27, 2018
The contend about public-private partnerships (PPPs) in official statistics has often been focussed on how statisticians can get hold of the data they covet from the individual sector. This risks non paying enough attending to other improved and new types of public-private partnerships for capacity development which could drive innovation, lower costs, leverage funding, and even produce and disseminate data.
Big Data for Sustainable Evolution: what does information technology take to get to the adjacent level?
September 24, 2018
In today'southward world, livelihoods, social relations and knowledge are linked to the use of digital devices. Digital devices and applications are more and more easily accessible to millions of people that are poor and alive in marginalized communities. To leave no 1 behind, we must apply innovative means of understanding data and how we tin brand the best apply of it to inform, monitor and evaluate policies.
Ceremonious Registration every bit a Tool for Women'south Empowerment
September 12, 2018
On February 26th, the Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Systems at the International Development Research Middle (IDRC) and its partners hosted a high-level panel and technical consultation sessions on gender and CRVS -- Making the Invisible Visible: CRVS as a basis to meeting the 2030 Gender Calendar. The coming together was the start of its kind to focus solely on the gender dimensions of CRVS systems and the barriers women and girls confront when registering vital life events.
Tell me why information technology matters: connecting the dots between having information and seeing impact
September 10, 2018
Over the last five years, nosotros accept all worked hard to help information gain its place as a key part of the global development conversation. The UN World Data Forum is testament to this equally information and statistics enthusiasts gather for the 2nd time this October in Dubai.
"Leaving no one behind" - Across information disaggregation
August 31, 2018
Information, especially social data, play a disquisitional role in raising sensation on the wellbeing of individuals and communities. Effectively utilized, information technology gives visibility to the nuanced and varied living weather condition of individuals. However, 1 of the challenges associated with the employ of data for understanding social wellbeing is that these data not just tin perpetuate marginalization, merely with the Data Revolution, could exacerbate information technology.
Catalyzing the use and impact of official statistics for sustainable development
August 27, 2018
The commencement Un Globe Data Forum launched the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development (CTGAP), an ambitious yet essential commitment to innovate and modernize national statistical systems, among other priorities. As policymakers, development partners and other data advocates prepare to gather at the second Un World Data Forum in Dubai in October, it is an opportune moment to ask how these various actors tin effectively implement this Plan.
GRID3 Nigeria: Using geospatial infrastructure & population data in support of decision making and effective application of resources for development
August 27, 2018
In 2012, Nigeria accounted for over half of all polio cases in the world, fifty-fifty though cases had fallen by over 99% globally in the previous 30 years. For Polio to exist eradicated, all children under 5 years must be reached, wherever they are, and vaccinated with vaccines offering protection confronting polio. To address this challenge and ensure every settlement and child is reached past vaccination teams, Nigeria introduced an innovative GIS (Geographic Information Arrangement) mapping of settlements in the eleven polio endemic States in northern Nigeria.
Weighing the quality of big data for SDG monitoring
Baronial 6, 2018
Big information has raised big expectations among information users. Some users believe that existent time data is readily available in large volumes, while official statistics are thin and reported with a significant fourth dimension lag. Against a backdrop of arguments about big data, some leaders of international development agencies run across cooperation with big multinational companies engaged in information and digital technology as a much more effective and straightforward solution for SDG information drove.
Can we harness the full power of information with half the earth still offline?
August ii, 2018
The new oil, the new soil, the new nuclear power. In that location is plenty of room for debate about the role that data plays in today'southward globe. Whichever your favoured metaphor, information technology'south clear that information will have a profound touch on the development of societies in the coming years. The question for the states is: How do we make sure that our data future is forged not past and for the few, simply past and for everyone? This must start with participation.
Producing reliable data for SDG 16: The case of conflict data
July 10, 2018
In 2015, the United Nations stated unequivocally in the final progress written report for the Millennium Development Goals that "conflict remains the largest obstruction to development". Yet, reducing disharmonize and violence in the globe was never a target in and of itself under the MDGs. This inverse with the inclusion of Goal 16 every bit part of the Sustainable Evolution Goals. SDG 16 calls for the world to attain peaceful societies.
How to harness private data towards meeting the SDGs? The need for data stewards
July 3, 2018
To encounter the objectives gear up along in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Evolution, it is articulate, nosotros need not only new solutions, merely as well new methods for arriving at solutions.
GEO drives international cooperation on Globe data ahead of Globe Information Forum 2018
June 25, 2018
In 2014, the UN Secretary General'south Independent Proficient Advisory Group (IEAG) on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development divers central deportment that were needed to advance a information revolution in support of sustainable development. These actions included determining how key data gaps could be filled and strengthening national statistics capabilities through new data sources and innovation. The Grouping on Globe Observations (GEO) is actively undertaking efforts in both areas.
How running abroad from home at xv fabricated me an advocate for the uncounted
June 21, 2018
I ran away from home when I was 15. When I did, I removed myself from the radar of official statistics and counting. The last thing I wanted was to exist noticed, noted and counted: my aim was to be tranquility, on my own, invisible. But I was lucky, when I calmed downward and re-established contact with my parents, I was however in the system. When I needed medical attention—which I did—the National Health Service still had me on their files. When I wanted to re-join the schooling system—which I did—I was registered and able to access free secondary schooling and, later, a university education.
Data For All -- Building Trust in Information Platforms
June 18, 2018
The earth is going through an unparalleled transition affecting the way communities live and work together. Urbanization, Poverty, Inequality, Scarce Natural Resource, Gender, Wellness, Pedagogy, Climate. The bug are not new, but a challenge faced by many communities remains: How to put quality data in the easily of policymakers at the right fourth dimension and in the right format to meliorate planning and determination making?
Making data protection work: Why we need to get paid for our data
June 11, 2018
Does your inbox await annihilation like this these days: "The protection of your data is important for the states"; "Updates to our terms of services"; "Of import update of our privacy policy"? Why are tech giants, retailers, banks, mobile telephone operators and others suddenly so interested in improving the privacy of my personal data?
A data revolution is already happening in the streets: How geospatial communities tin can assist to promote innovations and synergies across data ecosystems
June 5, 2018
The Un World Information Forum is a global effect, a gigantic magnet for a myriad of data experts in the development realm. Organized past the Un Statistics Division and hosted past the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority of the United Arab Emirates and the Authorities of the UAE, the 2018 Forum will take place in Dubai, 22-24 October.
#OpenDataDay for the SDGs
Apr 30, 2018
Two people become searching for a partner online. They come up across each other'southward profiles. Though they come from very unlike backgrounds, their profiles line upward with shared interests and shared values. Later some dorsum and forth past e-mail and instant bulletin, they agree to encounter at a Waffle Business firm.
Statisticians embrace UN Earth Data Forum as vital to innovation
March xiv, 2018
"Stakeholder revolution" and collaboration seen as key to better data
Edifice Trust in Data and Statistics
January 25, 2018
"Trust arrives walking and departs riding" -- A Dutch Proverb The United nations Earth Data Forum 2018 promises to exist an exciting outcome, bringing together communities of information users and producers, researchers, and policy makers. It is a unique United nations-led undertaking. Over three days, from 22 to 24 October, we will all be "information people" and regarded as equals, no matter our organizational affiliation. We will all have a voice and an opportunity to share our expertise and vision for a better globe served by better data.
Un World Information Forum 2018 Initiatives: Partnering towards a Global Geographic Information Organization for Sustainable Development
January 17, 2018
The United nations World Data Forum 2018, to be held in Dubai in October 2018, represents a major stride in transforming our globe through the dedicated piece of work of statistical and mapping organizations in each state.
Working Together to Bring Vision into Reality
January three, 2018
The United Nations World Data Forum 2018: a major footstep forward in the Arab region towards peace and prosperity, "leaving no one backside."
Improving data interoperability for the SDGs
Apr xx, 2017
Following an initial meeting convened concluding Jan at the margins of the first UN World Data Forum (UNWDF) in Cape Town, specialists from National Statistical Offices (NSOs), international organizations, private sector, and civil society, representing diverse perspectives, met again on 5 March 2017 in New York to discuss how to promote the use (and re-utilise) of bachelor SDG-related information sets and how to make them more widely available and accessible across data ecosystems.
Looking Back and Looking Forward
January 30, 2017
Nosotros did it! The commencement United nations World Data Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together an impressive group of information producers and users from the public and private sectors, policy makers, academia, and ceremonious society representatives, to observe means in which we tin, together, harness the power of information for sustainable evolution.
Launch of the Greatcoat Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Evolution Data
January 15, 2017
The Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Evolution Data was launched at the first Un Earth Data Forum.
Making Statistics Sexy
January 11, 2017
Nosotros are I Hate Statistics, two social entrepreneurs from Amsterdam who similar solving problems. We accept set ourselves one goal: pedagogy even those people who are inclined to think they hate statistics how to understand the earth through data. On January sixteen, nosotros'll be sharing our experiences and vision on how to aid everyone larn to love data and statistics.
7 ways mobile data is beingness used to change the earth
January 9, 2017
The smartphone has changed our world every bit we know it, with 79% of people between 18 and 44 having their devices within reach 22 hours a solar day. This new extension of our hands has get a "digital echo" of our real behaviour, with thousands of mobile applications accelerating our data generation and providing a wide range of companies with a scary amount of data on who we are, where we get, what nosotros practise and why nosotros exercise it.
Persons with disabilities must and can exist counted in
January six, 2017
"In committing to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Member States recognized that the dignity of the private is fundamental and that the Agenda'southward Goals and targets should be met for all nations and people and for all segments of society. Furthermore, they endeavoured to reach commencement those who are furthest behind." -- Sustainable Development Goals Report 2016
On Wish Lists and New year'south Resolutions
January 2, 2017
My favourite information story starts on a small chalkboard. Every week day, numbers were painstakingly entered into rows of boxes on its dusty black surface.
"A Earth That Counts" Everyone, Including Women and Girls
Dec 27, 2016
We measure what we value and value what we measure. This is a core tenet of data collection; simply what does it mean for women and girls?
Harnessing census data collection with citizen participation in SDGs
December 19, 2016
In the spirit of the 2030 Agenda, a great diversity of stakeholders needs to be summoned to make available inclusive, disaggregated and valuable data for the SDG. Although the core of the efforts for this calendar are led by National Statistics Offices (NSOs), official statisticians need to give a more serious consideration to all the qualitative initiatives coming from civil guild to aid in the endeavor of producing data to follow-up and review progress towards achieving the SDGs. In fact, a wider data ecosystem is greatly needed to start a existent data revolution.
Why a Globe Data Forum?
December 12, 2016
My first experience of data collection was running a survey in a minor, isolated hamlet in Northern Mozambique in the tardily 1990s as part of my bookish research. I nerveless and analysed the data, and when I had finished with it, I put the 400 or so paper surveys in boxes (which I yet have!) and put them in a cupboard. That was fairly typical for the times -- a earth where the collectors and users of data were the same, and where data sharing and re-employ were the exception, not the rule.
An opportunity for developing countries in SDG implementation
December v, 2016
At the conclusion of the beginning UN World Information Forum in Greatcoat Boondocks next month, the High-level Grouping for partnership, coordination and capacity-building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development (HLG) is planning to present a Global Action Plan for Information which highlights, among other challenges, that "Constructive planning, follow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires the drove, processing, assay and dissemination of an unprecedented amount of data and statistics at local, national, regional and global levels and past multiple stakeholders."
Connecting data communities
November 29, 2016
Information technology is more than one year since the visionary Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed to past 193 Fellow member States of the Un. The broader data community has already responded with a large number of initiatives, but a lot still has to be done to fulfil the information requirements of the 2030 Agenda. Every bit written in the 2016 Sustainable Development Goals Study, "the data requirements for the global indicators are virtually as unprecedented every bit the SDGs themselves, and establish a tremendous challenge to all countries.
Reflections on the United nations World Data Forum
November 22, 2016
As the conditions is getting bad and the dark is getting even darker -it is wintertime in the Due north- we are working even harder on our part of the program for the United nations Globe Information Forum. We will be at that place to exchange with old and new friends our experiences on how to employ data from administrative sources to produce official statistics in an efficient and cost-effective way and, more importantly, to ensure that No I is Left Backside.
The need for Open and Accessible data
Nov 17, 2016
Data and Information are the primal to the 'digital age' we live in today. Availability, Accessibility, and Utility of information are both testimonials and benchmark of human development of societies and nations in terms of societal engagement, inclusive policies, citizen empowerment, and economic advancement. 'Knowledge Economic system' and 'Digital Globe' are at present the determining axes effectually which civilizations and nations revolve and evolve. Scientific and technological infrastructure, which enables innovation and creates noesis entrepreneurs and professionals, is the bedrock of progressive societies.
Should 'data literacy' be promoted?
November 7, 2016
This post is the first of two parts, and builds on the White Paper "Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Appointment and Empowerment in the Age of Data" published on September 2015. Part ii will discuss guiding principles and priority actions to promote data literacy as literacy in the age of data.
Capacity Building, Yes -- But How To Do It?
Nov 1, 2016
These days, keynote addresses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often terminate with the telephone call to strengthen the capacity of national data ecosystem actors, in detail those inside National Statistical Offices. This is an important bulletin. But how can we do it? Is at that place eventually a demand to profoundly alter the way in which we approach capacity?
Counting people to make people count
Oct 25, 2016
"Data are the lifeblood of controlling and the raw material for accountability."
Interview with Pali Lehohla
October 17, 2016
What do yous wait from the showtime-e'er United nations Globe Information Forum? What outcomes would you lot similar to see?
A crucial opportunity
September 29, 2016
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted i twelvemonth ago by globe leaders equally office of the 2030 Agenda, are unprecedented in their scope and vision of a better future for people and the planet.
Commencement-Ever United nations Globe Data Forum
September 29, 2016
The outset Un World Information Forum will exist hosted past Statistics Due south Africa from 15 to 18 January 2017, with support from the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, under the guidance of the Un Statistical Commission and the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Chapters-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Evolution.
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