Sessions

Dates

Mar 29Mar 30Mar 31Apr 1

Opening Panel: Data as a public good – A chance to build back better

The opening panel will explore the implications of treating data as a public good. It will touch on the difficulties of measuring the value of data and its effect on...

Samira Asma

World Health Organization

Assistant Director-General, Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact

Diane Coyle

University of Cambridge

Bennett Professor of Public Policy

African Union Commission

Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Delivery

Mar 29th

3:00 pm CEST - 4:30 pm CEST

Africa & MENA: Data leaders of tomorrow – Building skills, competencies and resources

In the Middle East and Africa, as elsewhere, strategic planning, coordination, as well as effective human resource management and transparent statistical production...

HHA

H.E. Hanan Ahli

Federal Competitiveness & Statistics Centre (FCSC), UAE

Acting Director

Oliver Chinganya

UN Economic Commission for Africa

Director of the African Centre for Statistic

National Statistics Office of Malawi

Commissioner of Statistics

Koffi N'Guessan

Institute National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) de Yamoussoukro

Director General

Jean Tchoffo

Ministère de l’Économie, de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire

Secrétaire Général

Mar 29th

5:00 pm CEST - 5:30 pm CEST

Fireside chat - Advancing data literacy in the post-pandemic world

The urgent need to foster data literacy The COVID-19 crisis presents a monumental opportunity to engender a broad-based data culture. Since early 2020, the emergence...

Diego Kuonen

Statoo Consulting & University of Geneva

CEO & Professor of Data Science

Jeni Tennison

Open Data Institute

Vice President and Chief Strategy Adviser

Mar 30th

9:00 am CEST - 10:30 am CEST

Asia & the Pacific: The right approach to data governance - Elements of an enabling legal and...

How well countries approached data handling during the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the trajectory of their response. However, the global crisis laid...

Cameron Diver

Pacific Community

Deputy Director-General

National Bureau of Statistics, Maldives

Chief Statistician

GVH

Gemma Van Halderen

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Director of the Statistics Division

Mahlet Zimeta

Open Data Institute

Head of Public Policy

Mar 30th

2:00 pm CEST - 2:45 pm CEST

Spotlight - Introducing the Clearinghouse for Financing Development Data

To achieve long-term sustainable development for all and to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic, countries everywhere need more quality, timely and...

Montasser Kamal

International Development Research Centre

Program Leader for Health Research Partnerships

ARH

Andrea Richter Hume

International Monetary Fund

Deputy Director

ARP

Andrea Ries Padmanabhan

Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)

Senior Advisor for Development Effectiveness

Mar 30th

4:30 pm CEST - 6:00 pm CEST

Latin America: Strengthening participation – Multi-stakeholder approaches to data

In early 2021, the XII Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean noted that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing the greatest economic recession...

Rebecca Firth

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Director of Transformation & Community

José Antonio Mejía Guerra

Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

Especialista Líder en Modernización del Estado

MRP

Miosotis Rivas Peña

Oficina Nacional de Estadística de República Dominicana

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), Costa Rica

2:00 pm CEST - 3:30 pm CEST

Closing Session: Data as a global public good – The way forward?

The closing panel will discuss the potential of data as a public good for a post-COVID-19 society. Building on the lessons learned in the regional sessions, the meeting...

Alan AtKisson

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

Assistant Director-General

Research and Program Manager

National Statistics Office of Malawi

Commissioner of Statistics

MRP

Miosotis Rivas Peña

Oficina Nacional de Estadística de República Dominicana

Directora General

Paul Schreyer

OECD

Chief Statistician and Director of OECD Statistics and Data Directorate

Aishath Shahuda

National Bureau of Statistics, Maldives

Chief Statistician

Sessions

Opening Panel: Data as a public good – A chance to build back better

Africa & MENA: Data leaders of tomorrow – Building skills, competencies and resources

Fireside chat - Advancing data literacy in the post-pandemic world

Asia & the Pacific: The right approach to data governance - Elements of an enabling legal and...

Spotlight - Introducing the Clearinghouse for Financing Development Data

Latin America: Strengthening participation – Multi-stakeholder approaches to data

Closing Session: Data as a global public good – The way forward?

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