Five practical principles can help clarify the real gap in guidance about global data interoperability – the ability to access and process data from multiple sources without losing meaning, and integrate them for mapping, visualisation, and other forms of analysis…
TOM ORRELL Senior Advocacy Advisor – Joined-up Data* Tom joined Publish What You Fund in September 2015 as Senior Advocacy Advisor for the Joined-Up Data Standards (JUDS) project, run jointly…
When Open Data Watch began work on ODIN, we asked ourselves, “Does the world need another index?” We recognized the tendency for indexes to be glanced at to see who’s on top, and then forgotten.
Reactions to the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) 2016 are already making news. The consensus in countries seems to be, whether scores are high or low or in-between, that the ODIN 2016 results point in a helpful direction.
08/03/2018, Global
International Women’s Day, celebrated globally on 8 March, is dedicated to reflecting on the achievements of ordinary women who have made an extraordinary impact in their countries and communities, and to celebrate the contributions of women all around the world…more
06/03/2018 – 09/03/2018, New York, USA
Organized by the UN Statistics Division, the 49th Session of the UN Statistical Commission will be held in New York from 6-9 March, with the theme of “Better Data, Better Lives”…more
The 48th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (7-10 March in New York) kicks off its special events with a seminar on “Open Data – Adding Value by Matching…
27/02/2018 – 28/02/2018, Ottawa, Canada
The International Conference on Innovations in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems is the fruit of a collaboration between the Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The aim of this conference is to convene leading stakeholders from around the world to collectively identify and debate how best to harness the power of CRVS systems to meet global commitments to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The main objectives of this conference are to: (1) Generate ‘current state’ knowledge about CRVS by exploring the current status and use of innovation in CRVS in developed and developing economies, providing a platform to experts for presenting their innovative and constructive ideas at international level; (2) Prioritize ‘future state’ research and innovation needs for development into a Global 3-5 year work plan including necessary partnerships and capacity building approaches…more
22/02/2018, Washington, DC, USA
Organized by the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank, this brown bag lunch presentation discusses the Global Data Set on Education Quality. The database includes 163 countries and regions over the period 1965–2015. The globally comparable achievement outcomes were constructed by linking standardized, psychometrically-robust international and regional achievement tests. Learning outcomes in developing countries are often clustered at the bottom of the global scale. Although variation in performance is high in developing countries, the top performers still often perform worse than the bottom performers in developed countries. Gender gaps are relatively small. The distributions reveal meaningfully different trends than mean scores, with less than 50 percent of students reaching the global minimum threshold of proficiency in developing countries relative to 86 percent in developed countries. The paper also finds a positive and significant association between educational achievement and economic growth…more
21/02/2018, Washington, DC, USA
Center for Universal Education at Brookings and AidData will co-host a presentation and panel discussion on their forthcoming report Toward data-driven education systems: How leaders use information to measure results and manage change. The event will share findings from two unique global surveys that assess the use of data and evidence by education leaders in developing countries. Among those surveyed were senior and mid-level government officials, in-country staff of development partners, and domestic civil society leaders. Panelists include Shaida Badiee, managing director of Open Data Watch…more