Participants from 45 countries at the 7th Africa Gender Statistics Forum (AGSF) explored how to move from theory to action and how in practice to make gender and intersectionality data more inclusive, meaningful, and actionable.
Scholars, practitioners, and facilitators in the field of participatory sciences gathered at the 2025 Participatory Sciences Conference to discuss how to bridge citizen data and citizen science communities to pave the way for powerful new collaboration on complex social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Prior to publication, ODIN works closely with countries to review datasets used in assessments, so that no official, publicly available dataset is overlooked. ODIN’s commitment to transparency and accuracy also provides for limited post-publication revisions. Adjusted scores for seven countries are now reflected in this final update.
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) examines and challenges some underlying assumptions of the data revolution in order to guide future investments in data towards more effective solutions.
In an era of tightening budgets, growing debt burdens, and ambitious development goals, the role of data in shaping fair, effective, and accountable financing systems is back in the spotlight at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).
For evaluating trends in, for instance, economics, climate, and health, US government data have long played a vital role in guiding policy, both at home and internationally. But the production and reliability of long-standing, widely used US data sources are now under threat.
Lire en français dans Le Monde
The latest Staying Up to Data newsletter distills the findings of ODIN 2024-25. contrasting a decade of impressive progress with the fragility of a current data ecosystem facing both huge AI demands and uncertain funding. Subscribe here.
The 7th edition of the Open Data Inventory (ODIN), covering 197 countries across 22 categories of official statistics, reveals that countries are making substantial progress in openness and coverage, but that the current data ecosystem faces risks without sustained commitment and investment.
Assessing 197 countries across 22 categories of official statistics, the 7th edition of the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) reveals that countries are making substantial progress in data openness and coverage, but that the changing data ecosystem faces risks without sustained commitment and investment. See the blog, Report, and full ODIN results.
The 7th edition of the Open Data Inventory (ODIN), covering 197 countries across 22 categories of official statistics, reveals that countries are making substantial progress, but that the changing data ecosystem also faces risks without sustained commitment and investment.