WHAT
(TA5.14) Governing data for development: from normative frameworks to implementation
WHERE
Online
WHEN
Wednesday, October 6th from 1:45 - 2:45 PM Bern / 7:45 - 8:45 AM EST
About the Event
Description
Organizer(s): Open Data Watch (ODW); Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (SDSN TReNDS)
This session will highlight the challenges of implementing data strategies to respond to the data demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and how these strategies need to evolve as we build back better. From a policy and program perspective, the early phases of the pandemic were an unprecedented and extraordinary time. For policymakers, it was an incredibly unique environment. Real-time policymaking became the norm, and the scale of social and economic support programs were massive and rolled out in a matter of days. This timeline for designing and consulting on policies and programs lies in stark contrast with the pre-COVID policy making cycle of design/consult/implement that that typically took months. This real time policy was an experiment in and of itself and required new forms of data to be rapidly created, joined in new ways with other information, and quickly analyzed to match the speed at which programs were being designed. Accordingly, steps were taken and processes quickly put in place by government officials to maximize data sharing across government departments and ministries to address policy and program-making needs during the time of the pandemic. Government data providers see the value in maintaining the processes that were put in place to connect data providers to policy makers during the pandemic. However, without the day-to-day pressures of addressing COVID, how will these producer/user processes be sustained? And do the data sharing modalities developed during the pandemic need to be recalibrated to reflect ethical or privacy concerns that were revealed over the past 18 months? SDSN TReNDS and Open Data Watch are organizing this session that features senior government officials who were engaged in developing and implementing government-wide data strategies during the pandemic and to understand their views on balancing the need to leverage data to provide better services while ensuring public trust.
Speakers
Grant Cameron (Speaker) Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (SDSN TReNDS), Director
Catherine Vogel (Speaker) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Co-Coordinator GIZ Data Lab / Head of GIZ Project on Data Powered Positive Deviance
Anil Arora (Speaker) Statistics Canada, Chief Statistician
Mark Sowden (Speaker) Statistics New Zealand, Chief Executive and Government Statistician
Mariana Kotzena (Speaker) Eurostat, Director General
Virginia Murray (Speaker) Public Health England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Chair of the ISC-UNDRR Hazard Definitions and Classification Review Technical Working Group and Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction
Tom Moultrie (Speaker) University of Cape Town, and SDSN-TReNDS, Professor of Demography and Director of the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe)