UN WORLD DATA FORUM
Harnessing census data collection with citizen participation in the SDGs
Javier Carranza Torres GeoCensos Civic Tech Community founder In the spirit of the 2030 Agenda, a great diversity of stakeholders needs to be summoned to make available inclusive, disaggregated and valuable data for the SDG.…
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Why a World Data Forum?
Dr. Claire Melamed Executive Director, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data My first experience of data collection was running a survey in a small, isolated village in Northern Mozambique in the late 1990s as part…
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An opportunity for developing countries in SDG implementation
Hernán Muñoz National Director of Statistical Planning and Coordination at the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC). Coordination challenges within the National Statistical Systems of developing countries At the conclusion of the first…
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Connecting data communities
Irena Križman, Vice President, International Statistical Institute (ISI) It is more than one year since the visionary Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed to by 193 Member States of the United Nations. The broader data…
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Reflections on the UN World Data Forum
Niels Ploug, Director of Social Statistics at Statistics Denmark As the weather is getting bad and the dark is getting even darker -it is winter in the North- we are working even harder on our…
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The need for Open and Accessible data
Sanjay Kumar, CEO, Geospatial Media and Communications Data and Information are the key to the ‘digital age’ we live in today. Availability, Accessibility, and Utility of information are both testimonials and benchmark of human development…
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Should ‘data literacy’ be promoted?
Emmanuel Letouzé, Director and co-Founder, Data-Pop Alliance; Visiting Scholar, MIT Media Lab. Part 1 of 2. This post is the first of two parts, and builds on the White Paper “Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community…
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Capacity Building, Yes – But How To Do It?
Johannes Jütting Manager of the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) These days, keynote addresses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often end with the call to strengthen the capacity of…
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Counting people to make people count
Harpinder Collacott Executive Director at Development Initiatives “Data are the lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability.” -- “A World that Counts”, November 2014 As we prepare for the United Nations World Data…
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Interview with Pali Lehohla
Pali Lehohla South Africa’s Statistician-General and Head of Statistics South Africa and host of the very first United Nations World Data Forum What do you expect from the first-ever United Nations World Data Forum? What…
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A crucial opportunity
Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the Statistics Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted one year ago by world leaders as part of the 2030 Agenda, are unprecedented in…
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First-Ever UN World Data Forum
The first UN World Data Forum will be hosted by Statistics South Africa from 15 to 18 January 2017, with support from the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, under…
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