OPEN DATA WATCH HAS Job Openings: Short-term Researchers (full-time and part-time positions) Open Data Watch (ODW) is a Washington, DC-based, nonprofit organization promoting open data and the improvement of development statistics in countries and international agencies. ODW is seeking dynamic and self-motivated research assistants to work closely with team members on one of…
Full report Download PDF version The Data Value Chain: Moving from Production to Impact Prepared for Data2X by Open Data Watch Executive Summary The data value chain describes the process of data creation and use from…
The latest update of the Open Data Inventory — the globally-recognized assessment of the coverage and openness of official data from national statistical offices — is now available for 180 countries…
Many people take their birth certificate for granted. But in the developing world, birth registration is one of the most important events in childen’s lives.
Data are the information we use as the basis for reasoning, analysis, and debate. They are the factual currency for evidence-based policy making.
The Gender Data Impact Project is gathering stories about the lives of girls and women that demonstrate a strong link between data and outcome, about the pioneers who began the conversation on the importance of unbiased gender data and about the brave champions who continue the work today.
In an era of “fake news” and “alternative facts,” the UN World Data Forum 2018 takes on a topic of particular relevance: building trust in data and statistics throughout the data value chain…
Open Data Watch (ODW) – Our Story in 2017 Having just crossed the threshold of a new year, we take a moment to reflect on the previous year. We have much success to build on, and face a world where open data is more needed than ever before. In an era of fake…
It was an eventful year for open data and the data revolution for sustainable development. The last quarter of 2017 saw the publication of an OECD Development Co-operation Report dedicated to data, the sixth meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, a evaluation of World Bank support for data and…
