Data For Development: An Action Plan
The Data Revolution for Sustainable Development is poised to transform the way governments, citizens, and companies do business. The revolution is being defined by the explosion in availability of data resources…
Modernizing NSDS to Open Data
The landmark report by the Independent Expert Advisory Group to the United Nations Secretary General — A World That Counts: Mobilizing the data revolution for sustainable development — spotlights the increasing demands and opportunities for national…
Toward a Global Program for Data Quality
The past two decades have seen efforts on multiple fronts to improve the quality and availability of what we will call development data: the statistical information needed for planning, monitoring, and assessing the social and economic development of a country. Although our focus is on poor developing countries, the same data are needed by rich…
Strategic Planning Resources for National Statistical Systems
Solid, practical, technical assistance must always leverage the energy and diversity of many partners. Many governmental and international agencies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, private foundations, and professional societies are already deeply committed to improving the quality
Introducing Strategy and Guidance
National statistical systems in many developing countries will have to undertake significant reforms to integrate open data standards into their national strategies for statistical development (NSDS). Data do not become open simply by labeling them “open.” Data management and dissemination practices, along with legal, institutional, technical, and quality assurance frameworks, must be brought into alignment…
Open Data from the Ground Up
The call for open data has been closely linked with the global advocacy campaign for good governance founded upon the principles of transparency and accountability. Starting in North America and Europe and now spreading to the developing economies of Latin America…