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Data stewardship: from buzz word to a viable governance framework for data and statistics

WHAT

Data stewardship: from buzz word to a viable governance framework for data and statistics

WHERE

In-person, UNHQ, CR-4

WHEN

Monday, February 27 from 10:00 - 11:30 AM EDT

About the Event

Side Event of the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission

The idea of data stewardship was first given attention at the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) during a high-level event in 2020 and following exploratory work a working group was established a year later. Since then, the working group has focused on five workstreams: data governance; equity and inclusion; sharing and collaboration; links with the city data agenda; and development of an overall conceptual framework. The group maintains close links with similar work taking place in other groups (regional, national and with the wider data community) and has seen the growing interest and expectation of the benefits from following a data stewardship approach but at the same time found a divergent set of views on what it is and how to approach it. To begin to achieve a level of consensus, the working group presents a draft questionnaire in its report to this year’s Statistical Commission to collect further views from the population of National Statistical Offices, especially those with circumstances and environments not represented in the group.

Key questions covered in this side event will include:

  1. What functions (and data) are covered by a data steward?

  2. What does a successful implementation of data stewardship look like?

  3. How does data stewardship at the national level relate to the city and local level?

Moderator:

  • Jenna Slotin, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)

Panelist(s):

  • Beatriz Piedad Urdinola Contreras, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE-Colombia)

  • Dominik Rozkrut, Statistics Poland

  • Pam Dixon, World Privacy Forum

  • Shaida Badiee, Open Data Watch (ODW)

  • Grant Cameron, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) TReNDS

  • To Be Confirmed

  • To Be Confirmed