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Mexico Expands Data Use with Improved Governance and User Engagement

BlogBy Open Data Watch and TReNDS21 March 2023

This case study looks at how laws granting autonomy to the statistical office have helped significantly advance data use in Mexico through better management and active engagement with data users.

UK Identifies User Needs to Improve Data Use

BlogBy Open Data Watch and TReNDS16 February 2023

This case study looks at how data use of official statistics in the U.K. is promoted through a steadfast commitment to meeting users’ needs based on analysis of data use demands, data literacy training, and engagment with dedicated user and expert groups.

Farewell to ODW’s Visiting Statistician

BlogBy Open Data Watch1 February 2023

ODW’s first Visiting Statistician, Luis Gonzalez Morales, reflects on his sabbatical experience while at Open Data Watch and as he returns to the UN Statistics Division.

Philippines Centralizes Data Governance to Improve Data Use

BlogBy Open Data Watch and TReNDS25 January 2023

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.

Colombia’s DANE Adopts Inclusive Data Approach

BlogBy Open Data Watch and TReNDS6 December 2022

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.

Climate Change Data: Playing by the Paris Rulebook

BlogBy Open Data Watch30 October 2022

To make progress on climate change, countries need to know how to measure their goals and spur innovation in both the collection and use of climate change data.

Meet ODW’s Visiting Statistician

BlogBy Open Data Watch29 September 2022

Open Data Watch is pleased to welcome our first Visiting Statistician, Luis Gonzalez Morales, who joins us from the United Nations Statistics Division.

Report: Overcoming Data Graveyards in Official Statistics

BlogBy 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

BlogBy Open Data Watch and PARIS212 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.

The Power of Networks: Gender Data in Africa

BlogBy Open Data Watch19 May 2022

As shown by the Gender Data Network in Africa, knowledge exchange between countries is key to addressing capacity, funding, and other challenges to have data needed to reach SDGs.

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