The effectiveness of websites or data portals maintained by National Statistical Offices depends whether data users are aware of their existence and contents, and whether they are monitored and managed to assure that users can readily find what they are seeking…
October was another exciting month with the World Data Forum in Dubai. The event brought hundreds of development data experts together and resulted in the Dubai Declaration, which calls for…
Wednesday, 2 October 2019 at 3 PM CET
In this fifth session, we will be discussing how to support countries increase domestic resources, to incentivise donors to step up their commitments to national systems and to help the international data and statistics community to do a better job in matching supply and demand for capacity development.
Wednesday, 27 March 2019 at 10 AM ET
In this fourth session, we will be discussing why and how gender-disaggregated data needs to be collected, analyzed, and made openly availabile to unlock opportunities for women and girls and to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
16 November 2018; 3pm CET
In this first session, we will be discussing capacity development; whether it has shown any sign of success and whether emerging approaches could yield better results.
When vital life events – such as births, deaths, marriages, and divorces – are systemabtically recorded in CRVS systems, they provide proof of identity and legal status that are particularly beneficial to women and girls. They also provide sex-disaggregated demographic data for better policies and planning.
A result of a joint project between AidData and Open Data Watch, the Counting on Statistics report examines how official statistics are being used from the perspective of 400 national statistical office officials and 650 government ministry officials in 140 low- and middle-income countries.
The last three months brought with them the United Nations High-Level Political Forum in July and the International Open Data Conference in Buenos Aires in September. In addition to major…
A two-part research project on NSO data use was presented at the World Data Forum. One part seeks to understand perceptions of data use through snap polls. The other looks at potential ways to measure actual data use.
Just as the Data Revolution is constantly changing and innovating, we try to refresh the ODW website regularly to respond to changing use.