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Blog Series: The Philippines Centralizes Data Governance

Featured, SpotlightBy Open Data Watch25 January 2023

Based on the latest research into best practices by SDSN TReNDS and Open Data Watch, this case study looks at how the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) successfully centralized the data governance of major national statistical agencies to ensure that datasets are better tuned to user needs and can be efficiently used for policy and planning purposes.

Open Data Watch in 2022

Featured, SpotlightBy Open Data Watch20 December 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, Open Data Watch (ODW) reflects on what has been achieved and what is left to be done to support open data for development, better data governance, fewer data gaps, and more impactful data use to improve people’s lives.worldwide — all eight billion of them.

Blog Series: Colombia Adopts Inclusive Data Approach

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch and TReNDS6 December 2022

Based on the latest research into best practices by SDSN TReNDS and Open Data Watch, this case study looks at how Colombia’s National Statistics Office (DANE) captures several new data dimensions to improve the visibility of minority groups in national statistics through inclusive, disaggregated data.

Open Data Resource Guide

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch1 December 2022

Open data can be powerful for informing policies, increasing transparency and measuring progress. But making data open takes commitment, organization, and technical capacity. Ahead of the upcoming Data for Policy conference, Open Data Watch offers this guide to common questions, persistent challenges, and progress to-date,

Overcoming Data Graveyards in Official Statistics

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch16 September 2022

Billions of gigabytes of data are produced daily, but valuable data often pass into “data graveyards” — lost when most needed for evidence-informed decisions on pandemics, climate change, and energy and food insecurity. This report finds best practices to improve data use and impact.

Data Portals: Steps towards an Integrated Digital Strategy

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch7 July 2022

Data portals are a primary gateway for evidence-based decision-making, monitoring, fact checking, and reporting. But not all portals have the upstream data management needed to assure coverage, access and use.

Solutions to Close Gender Data Gaps

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch19 April 2022

This major report from Data2x and ODW on gender data gaps presents ways not only to identify gaps, but actually to start filling the gaps through ten specific steps using 142 innovative solutions across six development sectors.

ODIN 2022/23 Is Underway

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch19 April 2022

The upcoming Open Data Inventory, ODIN 2022/23, will include new updates that expand its global coverage from 187 to 194 countries and reinforces the importance of gender data in countries’ statistical systems.

Open Data Day 2022: Open Data to Improve the Lives of All

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch15 March 2022

Without open data, informed decisions and accountability are not possible. When data are locked behind paywalls, innovation is stifled. But change is underway to improve access to data.

ODIN inventory

2020/21 Open Data Inventory (ODIN) Annual Report

SpotlightBy Open Data Watch19 February 2022

Open Data Watch launches the Annual Report of the 2020/21 Open Data Inventory (ODIN) that assesses the coverage and openness of official statistics in 187 countries. ODIN monitors the progress of open data that are relevant to economic, social, and environmental development. An Executive Summary is also available.

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