This month ODW continued to monitor the intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic and data, updating Data in the Time of COVID-19 to include new resources on open data, data use, and more. Exploring the mentions of coronavirus datasets, website traffic for coronavirus data, and traffic to ODW’s own coronavirus data products to understand variations in demand for COVID-19 data, the results were compiled into a special report, Learning from Coronavirus Data Use and Demand, that discusses how the public conversation surrounding COVID-19 is being driven by data. In addition, ODW partnered with Data2X to produce weekly updates that present the best gender-disaggregated data on the pandemic.
Below is a selected list of sustainable development data articles and reports published in June. For specific articles on the intersection of development data and COVID-19, visit our “Data in the Time of COVID-19″ post here. If there is something else to add, please contact us.
June
Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration (June)
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), with a group of civic data stakeholders, creates this toolkit that describes positive and problematic practices and identifies best practices to center racial equity and give power to community voice. (source)
Food systems Dashboard (6/2)
Johns Hopkins University and The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition launch a new online data dashboard that contains over 150 indicators from multiple sources to give users a complete view of food systems and compare data globally. (source)
In Burkina Faso, access to gender data is complicated by conflict (6/3)
Sam Mednick from Devex uses the example of Burkina Faso to discuss the difficulty of collecting data disaggregated by age and sex, particularly in areas of conflict. He highlights the challenge of finding educated women to work as data collectors as their role is crucial to building trust within the communities. (source)
Why the US government underreports the economic gaps between white and black Americans (6/3)
Dan Kopf from Quartz explains how the exclusion of prisoners in labor statistics led to an over-optimistic employment rate, particularly for Black Americans who are more likely to be incarcerated. (source)
Big Data for Migration Alliance (6/4)
UN Immigration and the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission joins forces with The GovLab to launch an online home for the Big Data for Migration (BD4M) Alliance, a network dedicated to improve evidence base on migration, mobility, and policy-making. (source)
Deciphering Big Data to Make Better Decisions (6/4)
New York Times bestselling author and data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz explains how to use data analysis to challenge conventional wisdom and make better decisions in a podcast with Patrick J. McGinnishis, the producer of FOMO Sapiens. (source)
COVID-19 widens gulf of global data inequality, while national statistical offices step up to meet new data demands (6/5)
The article, by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), discusses the result of a global online survey, launched by the UNSD and the World Bank’s Development Data Group, to monitor the nature, scale, and scope of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on statistical agencies. (source)
How Data Can Map and Make Racial Inequality More Visible (If Done Responsibly) (6/8)
The GovLab illustrates the bias and injustice in the United States against Black people with examples from criminal justice, economic, health, and social rights and shares ways to leverage data to identify and address the issues. (source)
Celebrating 20 Years of Development Gateway (6/8)
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Development Gateway announces a blog series that takes stock of previous projects and partnerships and shares works and learnings that shape its approach and values. (source)
Laying the Foundation for Effective Partnerships: An Examination of Data Sharing Agreements (6/10)
This report introduces Contracts for Data Collaboration (C4DC), a joint initiative by SDSN TReNDS, NYU’s GovLab, the World Economic Forum, and the University of Washington, and their data sharing agreement (DSA) library and demonstrates how the library can support the data community to strengthen collaborations. (source)
Opinion: ‘Silent discriminator’ — the women global data is leaving behind (6/19)
Agnes Binagwaho and Tsion Yohannes Waka from Devex demonstrate the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on women with examples and explain the need for a global re-evaluation of the division of labor in, and outside, the home. (source)
What data tells us about the state of human rights (6/25)
Lisa Cornish from Devex, using the recently launched Human Rights Measurement Initiative, inspects several countries’ development progress in empowerment, rights to opinion and expression, quality of life, and other human rights indicators. (source)
From COVID-19 to data revolution: Partnerships are inevitable (6/29)
Javier Carranza Torres from Geospatial examines different strategies for responding to COVID-19 using geospatial data and statistics and highlights the importance of partnership from governments with external sources to generate data in a timely and reliable manner. (source)
Interview with Prof. Samuel Annim, Government Statistician of Ghana (6/30)
Professor Samuel Annim, in conversation with Deirdre Appel of Open Data Watch, shares his thoughts and experiences on the response of Ghana Statistical Service to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. (source)