Making Every Woman and Girl Count: A Public-Private Partnership to close gender data gaps for SDGs monitoring and accountability

Past Events

21/09/2016, New York, USA

A newly established public-private partnership to support UN Women’s “Making Every Woman and Girl Count” programme will be launched on 21 September at an event jointly organized by UN Women, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Data2X (United Nations Foundation) and the Government of Australia. The programme seeks to address the urgent need to increase availability of accurate information on gender equality and women’s rights in order to inform policy and decision making. Currently, there is a huge data gap—from the complete lack of statistics on how many women and girls live in poverty, to inaccurate measures of women’s engagement in economic activities, based on sexist assumptions…more

Leaving no One and no Data Behind

Past Events

21/09/2016, New York, USA

This overall event will focus on how, in the SDGs’ first two years, we can build the foundation for solid progress and ensure no one is left behind. Themes include promoting inclusion, reducing inequality, women’s empowerment, education and approaches to the SDGs like better data systems and impact investing. Notable speakers include Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation; H.E. Princess Lamia Al Saud, Secretary-General, Alwaleed Philanthropies; Vikki Spruill, President and CEO, Council on Foundations; Peter Laugharn, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; and Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD.

Financing the Data Revolution: What Does it Take and Where Are we at?

Past Events

20/09/2016, New York, USA

The objective of this limited-capacity, invitation-only event is to review the financing of national statistical systems in developing countries, and the data revolution more generally, and to propose concrete actions to increase and sustain funding for measuring the SDGs. The event is co-hosted by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (Partnership) as well as the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21). Speakers include Partnership Coordinator Sanjeev Khagram and Martine Durand, OECD’s Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician, who will discuss insights gleaned from PARIS21’s Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) as well as the Partnership’s first The State of Development Data Funding report.

GODAN Summit 2016

Past Events

15/09/2016 – 16/09/2016, New York, USA

Open data is at the centre of innovation in agriculture, food security and nutrition. Data is elemental to identify needs, track progress and make change happen. This event will offer the unique opportunity to showcase actual impact of open data across the world and underscore the importance of data in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger. The Summit, hosted by Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), will bring together leaders, researchers, farmers, students, and others – public, private and non-profit, united around collaboration on agriculture and nutrition data openness…more

Choosing The Hero: Africa’s First Woman President

Past Events

14/09/2016, Virtual

Hosted by IBM, this upcoming round-table discussion focuses on the challenges women face becoming leaders in Africa. This event will start with a presentation by Riva Levison about her new book, Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa’s First Woman President. This is a great book about a unique partnership between Riva and Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Africa’s first woman President. Speakers for this event also include Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi, and Eliza Anyangwe, Editor at The Guardian and CNN, and CEO of The Nizinga Effect…more

International Data Week

Past Events

11/09/2016 – 16/09/2016, Denver, USA

​Research Data Alliance​ Plenaries are held every six months in different places around the world. They are exciting and productive events that bring together a unique community of data scientists, librarians, computer scientists, and domain scientists. Plenary meetings are special working events that really help move the community forward in creating tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries…more

Improving Data Sharing

Past Events

11/09/2016 – 16/09/2016, Denver, USA

​Research Data Alliance​ Plenaries are held every six months in different places around the world. They are exciting and productive events that bring together a unique community of data scientists, librarians, computer scientists, and domain scientists. Plenary meetings are special working events that really help move the community forward in creating tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across disciplines, technologies, and countries …more

Advancing Data Frontiers

Past Events

11/09/2016 – 13/09/2016, Denver, USA

​SciDataCon 2016 seeks to advance the frontiers of data in all areas of research. This means addressing a range of fundamental and urgent issues around the ‘Data Revolution’ and the recent data-driven transformation of research and the responses to these issues in the conduct of research …more