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Blogpost l Poor numbers are not sexy
19 February 2013 | blogpost, data, evidence-based, online debate, post-2015, statisticsThe issue of statistical capacity building in developing countries is actually becoming a sexy issue. I can’t believe I am saying this. Though, we can ask Hal Varian for his opinion on that here....
Blogpost l Participant confidentiality and open access to research data
19 February 2013 | access-to-data, data, methodology, open access, researchWhile protecting human subjects’ confidentiality is a long-standing practice in the social sciences, new types of digital datasets present new challenges. Tensions between privacy and openness were...
Blogpost | It’s not only about the goals
06 February 2013 | blogpost, data, mdgs, measure progress, measurement, post-2015In his annual letter, Bill Gates invokes the power of measurement to drive results, and suggests the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) owed to their coherent focus on a set of...
Africa's numbers: Can you count on them?
09 January 2013 | africa, data, strategiesWhat can be measured can be improved. But what if the measurement is flawed, outdated or biased? This is the situation confronting governments, businesses and other organisations in Africa....
Blogpost | Marcelo Giugale: Fix Africa's Statistics
24 December 2012 | africa, blogpost, census, data, economic indicators, ict4d, population survey, statistical devHow would you feel if you were on an airplane and the pilot made the following announcement: "This is your captain speaking. I'm happy to report that all of our engines checked fine, we have just...
Promoting Citizen-Centred Security through South-South Cooperation I Brasilia 2012
14 December 2012 | Brasilia, brazil, citizen security, data, event, events, governance assessments, monitoring, security, south south cooperation, south-south, workshop, workshopsFrom national security to citizen security For decades, the term “security” in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was synonymous with national security, where the army and police had...
Request for Proposal | Uganda | Data Visualisation Uganda Budget
14 December 2012 | africa, budget data, citizen monitoring, data, government budget, request for proposal, ugandaA government’s budget is the key tool through which it can govern. Policies are implemented only if there is sufficient financing for them and this is all determined by the budget. No matter what...
Blogpost l Unshared Government Data is a Waste
12 December 2012 | blogpost, data, ict4d, information-sharingI have witnessed AidData grow from a primarily research-oriented resource for Western academics and policy wonks to a truly global platform for sharing all types of development information. With this...
Tanzania | Education RCT: Request for data collection proposals
05 December 2012 | africa, data, education, methodologies, tanzaniaOverall student-learning levels remain extremely low across East Africa, despite a decade plus of major reforms and significant new investments in public education. Two main approaches used by...
WOUGNET Mapping Social Accountability issues using Ushahidi platform
30 November 2012 | africa, civil society, data, mapping, social accountability, ugandaIn October 2012 WOUGNET held the monthly Voluntary Social Accountability (VSAC) Meetings and through this forum bad governance issues were raised and reported. WOUGNET has also been training its...