Below is a list of events that Open Data Watch is co-hosting or speaking at during the UN World Data Forum 2021. We hope to see you there, either virtually or in-person!
Monday, 4 October 2021
Title: TA6.02 – Smart investments in data for development: Launch of the Clearinghouse for Financing Development Data
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Time: 9:00 AM-10:00 AM CEST
Organizers: Bern Network Secretariat; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Swiss Federal Statistical Office; Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century; United Nations Statistics Division; Open Data Watch; Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data; World Bank; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Description: This session, organized by members of the Bern Network on Financing Data for Development, puts a spotlight on innovations for smarter development data financing. It focuses on the launch of the Clearinghouse for Financing Development Data – a new platform developed by the network to help countries and their development partners identify funding opportunities, bring projects to scale, advocate for support to data and statistics, and connect to new partners. Participants will be given a practical demonstration of how to use the clearinghouse to derive insights to make more efficient decisions for data financing.
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Title: TA1.05 – Bridging the Gap: Forging networks to address gender data gaps
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Time: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM CEST
Organizers: Data2X; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
Description: This session showcases the power of horizontal peer-to-peer networks for learning and sharing amongst the group, as well as providing a focus for connection to the wider field and introduction to best practice and innovative research. It uses the recently established African Gender Data Network (AGDN) and Bridging the Gap: Mapping Gender Data Availability research reports as an illustrative case study for the importance of cross-country learning to build sustainable solutions to common gender data gaps.
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Title: TA6.03 – Beyond Open Data
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Time: 4:15 PM-5:15 PM CEST
Organizer: Open Data Watch
Description: The session brings together data experts to discuss the evolution of the open data movement and engage the audience in a roundtable discussion about future opportunities and challenges. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field, the speakers reflect on the evolution of the movement in the last decade and share findings and early data from recent research and activities.
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Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Title: TA5.09 – Microdata Use, Dissemination, and Emerging Issues
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Time: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM CEST
Organizers: Open Data Watch; United Nations Children’s Fund; United Nations Statistics Division; Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations
Description: This session explores the ways that microdata are critical to assessing development issues and the challenges of microdata dissemination for both users and data producers. It presents the experience of national and international statistical offices in disseminating survey and census files and examples from data users of the benefits obtained from public access to microdata. As the data ecosystem is changing, this session also addresses emerging issues around microdata: how non-official data sources affect the use and possible misuse of microdata; new disclosure control and access methods; and standards for interoperability among data sources.
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Title: TA5.14 Governing data for development: from normative frameworks to implementation
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Time: 1:45 PM-2:45 PM CEST
Organizers: Oxford Insights; Open Data Watch; Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics
Description: This session highlights the challenges of implementing data strategies to respond to the data demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and how these strategies need to evolve as we build back better. It features senior government officials who were engaged in developing and implementing government-wide data strategies during the pandemic to understand their views on balancing the need to leverage data to provide better services while ensuring public trust.
Title: TA4.08 – Creating Data Use Ecosystems: Tools and Frameworks to promote evidence- based policies
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Time: 1:45 PM-2:45 PM CEST
Organizers: Open Data Watch; Development Gateway; Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21)
Description: This session highlights how countries and organizations work within the whole data ecosystem to make the connection between data providers and users for policymaking and where gaps continue to exist. The session is part of an ongoing conversation around data use among practitioners and leaders in order for NSOs both to be strategic about understanding users and to create tools that put data to work in informing policies.
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