On October 15th, the UN Secretary General’s Independent Advisory Expert Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution closed its comments and private submissions as it prepares its report for the UN Secretary General. There was a flurry of blog posts surrounding the deadline. We’ve compiled a brief list below. Contact us if you have additions.
22 October 2014
The Post-2015 Data Test publishes their first set of case studies as well as documents related to workshops they hosted in New York and Washington, DC …(more)
21 October 2014
Post2015.org publishes an open letter Defining and successfully accomplishing the Data Revolution written by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. The letter highlights the position demographers are in to ensure that the SDGs are measurable and valid …(more)
20 October 2014
The Center for Economic and Social Rights publishes a blog post summarizing their submission to the IEAG A Human Rights Approach to the Data Revolution . The post suggests that by focusing on human rights, the Data Revolution can avoid being “another top-down, technocratic exercise.” . …(more)
20 October 2014
The World Economic Forum publishes a post by the World Bank’s Ana Revenga and Maura Leary titled Why better data is the key to tackling poverty. The post highlights the findings of the World Bank’s 2014 Policy Research Report: A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity…(more)
20 October 2014
Development Gateway publishes a blog post “Good” Data and You . The post highlights the demand for data, the usefulness of data, and the need to promote data use…(more)
20 October 2014
The Center for Global Development’s Gabriel Demombynes and Justin Sandefur publish a working paper Costing a Data Revolution . They analyze the supply and demand of household surveys and estimate that it would cost donors approximately $300 million per year to fill remaining data gaps… (more)
17 October 2014
National Geographic publishes an article titled Un-cooking Africa’s Books . The article discusses statistical deficiencies among African countries. With respect to the Data Revolution, they argue that there should not be a strong dependence on new technologies to address data issues …(more)
16 October 2014
Nathaniel Heller writes a post on the Global Integrity blog titled Avoiding a Soylent Green Data Revolution . Heller argues that “[W]e need to avoid a Data Revolution that treats individuals (and their data) as raw materials with no ability to opt out.” He then draws on some related writings on the philosophy and perils of data analysis and policy …(more)
15 October 2014
Publish What You Fund publishes their submission to the IEAG. They outline six principles for a data revolution and six standards of open data. The post focuses especially on the ability for open data to promote development …(more)
15 October 2014
The World Wide Web Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge, the Open Institute, and Fundar made a joint submission to the IEAG. The document highlights 7 steps for the IEAG to make data open, help stakeholders to effectively use data, and protect rights to hold governments accountable …(more)
15 October 2014
Joe Powell posts a blog post on the Open Government Partnership website The Data Revolution and OGP: Ships Passing in the Night? He highlights the potential overlap between the Open Government movement and the Data Revolution and suggests more collaboration between the two movements …(more)
15 October 2014
CARICOM commemorates Caribbean Statistics Day with the theme of Data Revolution for Sustainable Development in CARICOM – Designing and Operationalising a Framework for Statistics in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The press release published by CARICOM highlights the role of ICT and National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) in the Data Revolution…(more)
15 October 2014
Liz Steele published a blog post on Publish What You Fund titled The need and the opportunity, for research to inform the data revolution debate. The post mentions a panel discussion where the author emphasized how research could improve the direction of the Data Revolution …(more)
15 October 2014
The Honorable Marco Archer, Minister for Finance and Economic Development of the Cayman Islands writes an article for the Cayman Reporter. He frames changes he plans to make in the collection and use of data to the Data Revolution…(more)
15 October 2014
All Africa published an article called ‘If it can’t be measured, it can’t be done’-The Importance of Good Data for Development. The article summarizes many of the comments of Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank at October 9 event at the Center for Global Development …(more)
15 October 2014
An Open Data Agenda for Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals is published by Sumandro Chattapadhyay with contributions from Tim Davies, Zacharia Chiliswa, and Gisele S. Craveiro. The note provides a series of suggestions for the IEAG building on the idea that openness should be fundamental to the Data Revolution …(more)
14 October 2014
IEAG members Carmen Barroso and Katell Le Goulven publishes a blog post to the IEAG website A Rights-Based Revolution. They discuss the strong demand to make sure that the rights of citizens are respected during the Data Revolution …(more)
14 October 2014
Development Initiatives publishes a briefing titled The Data Manifesto: Staging a Data Revolution. It lists 12 steps to ensure that the Data Revolution is useful for policy makers and data users …(more)
14 October 2014
Taryn Davis publishes a blog at Development Gateway titled We Need a Revolution! The blog highlights various resources on the Data Revolution including discussions on aid transparency, open budgeting, extractive industries, and open data …(more)
13 October 2014
Dan Whitman writes an article on Pundit Wire on the Center for Global Development’s October 9th Data Revolution event. He emphasized the importance of numbers in policy making …(more)
10 October 2014
Katell Le Goulven (a member of the IEAG) publishes a blog post on the UNICEF website titled A data revolution for children. It discusses some of the promise and threats of a data revolution to improving the lives of children…(more)
9 October 2014
The Open Data Research Network publishes a blog post titled Placing Lessons from the ODDC research at the heart of the data revolution debate. The blog post summarizes an event held October 6-9 discussing experiences with open data in Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. …(more)
9 October 2014
The Center for Global Development hosts the launch of a publication titled Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. The event included a keynote address by the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka. Video of the event can be found here.
8 October 2014
Publish What You Fund publishes the Aid Transparency Index 2014. The publication sets the aid transparency movement within the context of the broader Data Revolution.. …(more) Video of the launch of the publication with a keynote address by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is available here.
7 October 2014
The Open Knowledge Foundation blog featured a post titled Open Data Definition v2.0 Released-Major Update of Essential Standard for Open Data and Open Content. The post does not mention the Data Revolution, but it does explain changes to a frequently cited definition used among participants in the Data Revolution. …(more)