Publications

This report provides a deep dive into 13 future phenomena that are expected to shape data and digital technologies over the next 10 to 15 years. This horizon scan offers insights to develop research, policies, and action plans that enhance the prospects of a more inclusive and sustainable world now and in the future.

OD4D is an initiative that aims to increase the availability of quality Open Data (OD) and its use by actors in government, civil society, and the private sector for greater social good. 

Management welcomes the findings and recommendations of the evaluation and is pleased that the evaluation found that the OD4D program achieved and/or exceeded its targets. In particular, we note that the evaluators found that the program exceeded its goals to advance gender, equity, and inclusion in the Open Data field. 

This evaluation of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) program highlights progress made by OD4D during its Phase III of activities and the extent to which the program achieved its intended goals, and as well, identifies key lessons and recommendations for the future sustainability of the regional hubs and the network. 

This presentation maps the state of data financing, and will take you through emerging opportunities and what the future for data financing looks like. While financing for data is still concentrated in a few donors, new multilateral funds and renewal of existing funds create opportunities for partnership.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of reliable, accessible, and trusted health data to enable coordinated action. This policy brief compiled by the Global Data Barometer (GDB) considers three leading composite indicators focusing on vital statistics, real-time healthcare system capacity, and vaccines to answer a set of questions on the availability, accuracy, and timeliness of health and Covid-19 data.

The climate action data gap is strongly connected to the national governments’ commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by countries worldwide. This Global Data Barometer climate action policy brief discusses the barriers hindering the effectiveness of climate action plans by identifying the missing data and the lack of collection and harmonization processes needed to support climate action.

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.

Open Data Watch (ODW) reviews widely used performance indexes and assessment tools with references to the Data Value Chain (DVC) to identify similarities and differences in concept and coverage. These observations point toward the new Global Data Barometer as a more comprehensive measure that is needed to fully capture the functions of the data ecosystem.