This year, the conference is being organized by the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (Kenya) in collaboration with Pulse Lab Kampala and various local and international universities, research organizations and private companies including Amazon Inc. The event will start with a three-day summer school for ‘trainers of trainers’. The aim is for them to be…

Organized by the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica (Peru), Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia (Mexico), UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and Centro de Excelencia para Informacion Estadistica de Gobierno, Seguridad Publica, Victimizacion y Justicia, the Fourth International Conference on Governance, Security and Justice Statistics seeks to promote dialogue among the actors involved…

The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will jointly organize the 16th edition of the IAOS Conference, Better Statistics for Better Lives that will take place at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, France. With the aim of promoting official statistics, the theme of this conference Better…

The International Open Data Conference (IODC) is a biannual event to bring the global open data community together in order to learn, share, plan, and collaborate on the future of open data. Under the theme “The Future is Open”, this year’s conference will reconvene our ever expanding community to address the key issues and challenges…

Following one of the main recommendations contained in the report entitled “A World That Counts” , presented in November 2014 by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Independent Expert and Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, the Statistical Commission agreed that a United Nations World Data Forum on Sustainable Development Data (UN World Data Forum)…

Hosted by CODATA, SciDataCon 2018 will address the theme of ‘The Digital Frontiers of Global Science’. In a hyperconnected world where the internet is pervasive and web technologies are driving major changes in our lives, research has become more than ever before digital and international. Furthermore, the major societal and scientific challenges facing humanity in…

For data to protect the rights of the most vulnerable and provide for their needs, it must count those who are often left behind. As part of its Solutions for Gender Equality speaker series, IDRC hosts a panel on how reliable, sex-disaggregated data can benefit women and girls by making policies and programs more relevant…

The 6th OECD World Forum will showcase international best practices and innovations to improve quality of life and sustainable well-being for all. It will take a forward-looking perspective, focussing on issues such as digitalization, trust, the role of government and business in improving well-being, among many other topics.

To close the gap between the production of official statistics and their dissemination and use, development partners and funders need a better understanding of the barriers that national statistical offices (NSO) face. To assist the modernization of statistical systems, it is equally important to analyze usage statistics from national data portals and NSO websites. Open…

The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum is the only yearly gathering that brings together leaders of global society. The heads and members of more than 100 governments, top executives of the 1,000 foremost global companies, leaders of international organizations and relevant non-governmental organizations, the most prominent cultural, societal and thought leaders, and the…