December and January have been busy months for data revolutionaries. Several critiques were published of the IEAG’s report, A World That Counts. There was significant attention on the need for a gender data revolution. Other topics included the challenge of having a country-led data revolution and the need to finance the data revolution. We have published links to the reports, articles and blog posts related to these topics below. If we have missed something, please contact us.
2 February 2015
Sarah Lucas publishes a blog post on Post2015.org titled Financing the Data Revolution–Elements for Success. The post flags the Financing For Development (FFD) conference as a key opportunity to finance the data revolution. Lucas outlines 4 essential ingredients for financing the data revolution and 3 essential ingredients to make the FFD a success for the data revolution.…(more)
31 January 2015
An article was published on the Italy at the UN website titled Post-2015: Italy@UN, Data Revolution is good practice for financing development. The article expresses Italy’s support for financing data for the post-2015 period and support for the IEAG.…(more)
30 January 2015
Claire Melamed and Grant Cameron publish a blog post on the Guardian Global Development Pros website titled How to fund the data revolution. The post highlights the need to fund different streams of the data revolution.…(more)
29 January 2015
Development Gateway publishes a blog post titled Fostering a “Data Culture”. The blog talks about how to develop a data-driven culture as a pre-requisite to having a data revolution.…(more)
25 January 2015
The World Economic Forum publishes a report titled Data-Driven Development: Pathways for Progress. The report builds on the IEAG report and highlights problems and opportunities to develop the data revolution.…(more)
24 January 2015
Kathy Sullivan publishes a post on the World Economic Forum blog titled How big data from space helps life on earth. The post primarily focuses on the potential for geospatial climate data to benefit society.…(more)
21 January 2015
Florian Kratke publishes a post on the Post2015.org blog titled Whither a revolution? Three observations in response to the Roadmap for a Country-led Data Revolution. The post asserts: 1) Official data and statistics are as political as they are technical. 2) Data and statistics availability are not likely to be the “watershed for improved statistical capacity and policymaking in developing countries.” 3) “A revolution is — and should be — an iterative exercise.”…(more)
20 January 2015
Claire Melamed and Grant Cameron publish a post on the Post2015.org blog titled Funding the revolution. The post discusses four new funding streams needed for the data revolution: 1) Funding for official statistics 2) Funding for innovation 3) Funding for data literacy and use 4) Funding for partnership and leadership.…(more)
16 January 2015
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network published a draft of its report Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for Sustainable Development Goals: Launching a data revolution for the SDGs. The document analyzes the indicators to be used in the Sustainable Development Goals and provides a framework for monitoring them.…(more)
16 January 2015
Grant Cameron publishes a blog post on the World Bank Data blog titled Next step for the Data Revolution: financing emerging priorities. The post highlights three priority areas for financing for which draft reports have been created: Data innovation, public-private partnerships for data, and data literacy and promotion of data use. The post invites comments from readers.…(more)
15-16 January 2015
The United Nations Statistical Division and the Statistical Office of the European Communities host the Global Conference on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics in New York. The discussions cover many issues related to the data revolution. Thanks to UNSD, presentations and papers are available for download.…(more)
15 January 2015
George Ingram publishes a post on the Brookings blog titled QDDR II: Bring U.S. Foreign Aid Into The Data Revolution. The post discusses the Millennium Challenge Corporation, PEPFAR and the data revolution in light of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.…(more)
15 January 2015
Jamie Drummond of the One Organization, publishes an article on Devex titled 2015: It’s time activists unite to hold leaders accountable. The article refers to the action/2015 movement to hold leaders accountable for their performance. He particularly focuses on data as a tool for accountability arguing that citizens must “Demand the data!”…(more)
13 January 2015
SciDev.net publishes an article titled Single SDG targets are impractical and unrealistic. The article talks about the Sustainable Development Goals and the data revolution. They suggest that there should be continuous feedback and citizen participation in measuring the SDGs.…(more)
12 January 2015
Jeune Afrique publishes an article titled L’Afrique a-t-elle entamé sa révolution open data? The article gives an overview of the open data movement in Africa.…(more)
8 January 2015
Restless Development publishes a blog post titled The Data Revolution: Our recommendations. The post provides recommendations for the data revolution. It says, “At the heart of [our] recommendations is the belief that people, not data, lead revolutions.” They provide seven specific recommendations for acheiving this goal for the data revolution.…(more)
7 January 2015
Tim Davies publishes a blog post on Medium.com titled Data Revolutions: Bottom-Up Participation or Top-Down Control? The post highlights cases where data may have empowered the powerful rather than the rest of society.…(more)
6 January 2015
Trevor Fletcher publishes a blog post on the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation titled Co-operating on innovation to make the data revolution happen. The post dicsusses PARIS21’s Informing a Data Revolution project which looks at country-level challenges and explores new technological tools for data collection.…(more)
30 December 2014
The Peninsula Newspaper publishes an article Qatar prepares for mid-term census. The article discusses some of the improvements planned for Qatar in line with the IEAG data revolution recommendations.…(more)
19 December 2014
Maura Pally from the Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton publishes an article in Forbes titled Why Data Matters. The post highlights the need for better gender data to make better policies for women and girls…(more)
18 December 2014
Louisa Dennison publishes a blog post for Development Initiatives titled A data revolution in Nepal – starting the conversation. The post highlights a range of questions related to implementing the data revolution on the ground and describes several meetings held to explore those questions.…(more)
17 December 2014
Morten Jerven publishes another blog post titled The problem with the data revolution in four Venn Diagrams. The post again critiques the definitions of terms, the lack of politics, and the ‘hubris’ he sees in A World That Counts.…(more)
16 December 2014
Development Gateway publishes a blog post titled Lessons from Nepal: Getting government data to everyone else. The post highlights ways to publish and share data with stakeholders outside the government.…(more)
16 December 2014
Newsweek publishes an article titled Could Big Data Be the New Gender Equality Tool? The article discusses the Data2x event with Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg and describes how a gender data revolution could be achieved through gender disaggregationof existing indicators, big data, and civil registration and vital statistics.…(more)
16 December 2014
Devex publishes an article titled More data on women and girls on the way. The article highlights the new partnerships announced during the Data2x event and the importance of gender disaggregated data.…(more)
16 December 2014
New York Daily News publishes an article titled Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg promote project working to close gender gaps. The article highlights the importance of data for management and inclusivity.…(more)
16 December 2014
Fortune Magazine publishes an article describing Hillary Clinton’s support for a gender data revolution titled Hillary Clinton spurs ‘Gender Data Revolution’. The article describes some of the data gaps found by Data2x and the new partnerships to address them.…(more)
16 December 2014
CBS News publishes an article describing Hillary Clinton’s support for filling gender data gaps with Data2x. Most of the article focuses on speculations about US electoral politics.…(more)
16 December 2014
The UN News Centre publishes an article titled UN Asia-Pacific forum begins registration, statistics partnership to improve data, policies. The article highlights the commitment of UNESCAP to improve CRVS with Data2x.…(more)
15 December 2014
Politico publishes an article with the headline Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg promote data project. The article birefly mentions Data2x before focusing on the politics of Mr. Bloomberg and Mrs. Clinton.…(more)
15 December 2014
Shaida Badiee and Claire Melamed publish a blog post to the IEAG website titled Making the Data Revolution a Gender Data Revolution. The post mentions the need to revolutionize the data about women and also the need to revolutionize the use of data by women.…(more)
15 December 2014
Data2x hosts an event with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Michael Bloomberg and many others to announce a major partnership for a “gender data revolution”. The video of the event discusses gender data gaps.…(more)
15 December 2014
The World Bank Managing Director, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, publishes an article on the Huffington Post titled To End Poverty, We Need to Know What We Don’t Know About Women and Girls. The article discusses the World Bank’s efforts to fill gender gaps around the world.…(more)
15 December 2014
The World Bank publishes a story titled New Partnerships Aim to Improve Data on Women and Girls. The article discusses the World Bank’s commitment to partner with Data2x for a gender revolution.…(more)
15 December 2014
The Washington Times publishes an article describing Hillary Clinton’s support for Data2x titled Hillary Clinton: Good decisions based on ‘evidence,’ not ideology, gut feelings. The articles outlines the major points of the Data2x event.…(more)
December 2014
The Political Economy of Official Statistics: Implications for the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper argues that much of the data revolution research has focused on technical components. However, the political economy factors such as history, institutional arrangements and incentives should be considered for technical solutions to be effective.…(more)
13 December 2014
Lawrence Haddad publishes a blog post on the IFRPRI website titled Don’t kill off the data revolution before it has even started. The post is a response to Morten Jerven’s estimate of the cost of the Data Revolution for the Copenhagen Consensus Group. He critiques Jerven’s methods of estimation and argues that the actual and relative costs of the data revolution are lower than Jerven estimates.…(more)
13 December 2014
The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) publishes a press release titled Africa needs reliable statistics for economic planning and development. The statement summarizes some of the issues discussed in the STATCOM 2014. It expresses a desire that the African data revolution be African-led.…(more)
11 December 2014
An excerpt from the report of the African Group on Statistical Data Management presented to STATCOM 2014. The report defines the data revolution in Africa, describes what to expect of a country that had achieved a data revolution, and recommends steps to achieve a data revolution. Excerpts of the report are available in a Google Document.…(more)
9 December 2014
Development Gateway publishes a second blog post on its study of data use in Nepal titled Data Use in Nepal: Data, Incentives, and Champions. The post discusses the incentives government officials have to use and to improve data. The post argues that the data revolution will succeed only if key stakeholders have the right incentives.…(more)
9 December 2014
The Web Foundation publishes a blog post titled From open data to a right to information: A response to the UN Data Revolution report. The post discusses the need to link Right to Information laws to the principles of the data revolution. The post argues that by making access to open data a right, the principles of the data revolution will be realized.…(more)
9 December 2014
Open Nepal publishes a blog post titled The sparking the data revolution in Nepal: Open Nepal and Development Initiatives convene high-level roundtable on Data Revolution. The post discusses the need for better-informed decisionmaking by all stakeholders in Nepal.…(more)
8 December 2014
Morten Jerven publishes a blog post on his website titled Writing about a data revolution: A critique in four venn diagrams. The article criticizes the A World That Counts report along similar lines as his December 5th critique but specifying that he felt the Data Revolution report was at risk of hubris because of the largeness of its claims about the power of data.…(more)
5 December 2014
Morten Jerven publishes a blog post for the Post-2015 website titled Writing about a data revolution: Between rhetoric and practical action. The article criticizes the A World That Counts report for not distinguishing between statistics and data, for not theorizing the link between data and better decisions, for underemphasizing politics, and more. .…(more)
4 December 2014
Development Gateway publishes a blog post titled Meeting the Challenge of Open Data. The post discusses the organization’s Aid Management Platform and its desire to use data generated by the data revolution to produce better decisions about development.…(more)
4 December 2014
The Synthesis Report of the Secretary General on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda is published by the United Nations. The post categorizes six areas for the sustainable agenda. It also highlights the comments of the IEAG report and calls for improvements in the ways data are used in monitoring and evaluating progress towards international goals.…(more)