Overcoming Open Data Worries
In the last five years, many national governments have announced open data initiatives, and states and cities have joined in. Releasing data openly should make governments more credible.
FAQ
Download in PDF format What is the data revolution?Recent years have seen an exponential increase in the volume, quality, and types of data available. Combined with new technologies that permit faster processing of larger data sets and new statistical methods, this presents unprecedented possibilities for using these data for informing and transforming society. As the…
Ending Poverty Needs Better Data
The World Bank’s recently released poverty report, Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies, brings news that the rate of extreme poverty in the world declined again in 2012, reaching a global average of 9.8 percent of the world’s population, although a more relevant figure places it at 15.7 percent of the population in “developing” countries.
Open Data for Africa
During my time as an intern at Open Data Watch, I reviewed the availability and openness of data in poor, developing countries. I wanted to get a general idea of what the data environment looks like in the developing world. I asked myself: “If I were a citizen of country X and I wanted to find data about my country, could I do so and how difficult would it be?”
Better Measurement and Monitoring of Data for Development
What are the similarities and differences between existing tools to measure the capacity and outputs of statistical systems? This report compares 12 major indexes and tools, mapping them to the Global Data Barometer and the Data Value Chain.
Open Data Day 2022: Open Data to Improve the Lives of All
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.
Five Steps to Smarter Gender Data Financing
Accessible and timely sex-disaggregated data are critical in helping policymakers understand and address the unique challenges that women and girls face. But do investments in gender statistics match their importance?
What’s Being Said – Resource Pages
As part of ODW’s “watch” function What’s Being Said has regularly provided a monthly review of key articles and reports on open data, SDGs, gender data, and official statistics related to the data revolution. To make access quicker and hopefully more useful, instead of a monthly general list, we are now beginning to separate out certain topics,…
Open Data Day 2021: Open Data in a Changed World
Today is Open Data Day! What have we learned since the last Open Data Day, during the pandemic, during this week’s UN Statistical Commission and in light of the findings of ODIN 2020/21? Where can data producers and users go from here?
Tracking Gender Data on COVID-19 – Blog #4
This fourth blog of the series examines what emerging measures of the direct impact of the pandemic on healthcare workers can tell us about the frontline capacity of countries and how it differs for men and women.