Publications

Strengthening data capacity across civil society, governments, and the private sector in the global south has been an important target outcome for the Open Data for Development (OD4D). This study reflects a full review and synthesis of 24 projects that were delivered with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) related to data capacity building that were undertaken for the purpose of identifying common themes (patterns), effectiveness criteria, and program design considerations.

This report provides an overview of the Global Data Barometer findings. The Barometer includes 39 primary indicators, and over 500 sub-questions, covering 109 countries (delivering more than 60,000 data points in total). This report explores just a few of them, providing a non-exhaustive overview of some of the topics that could be explored further using Barometer data.

In this stocktaking report, Open Data Watch (ODW) reviews twelve widely used performance indexes and assessment tools with references to the stages of Data Value Chain (DVC) to identify similarities and differences in concept and coverage. The results show that current indexes and tools provide do not provide balanced coverage of government data systems. These observations point toward the forthcoming Global Data Barometer, suggesting that a more comprehensive measure or a combination of complementary indexes and tools are needed to fully capture the functions of the data ecosystem.