9:00 am - 10:15 am Mofaic Hall
(TA2.02) Data Stewardship in Action: Making Data Collaboratives Systematic, Sustainable and Responsible
There are many predictable, repeatable uses for data collected and held by the private sector that can transform how we make public policy decisions or seek to solve public problems. These traditionally untapped data assets have attracted growing interest from diverse public sector entities — from United Nations agencies to National Statistical Institutes — and […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
9:00 am - 10:15 am GCC-Stat Hall
(TA2.05) Operationalising Mobile Phone Network Data for Development and Humanitarian Action
Presentations Presentation – Emily Chirwa Presentation – Darren Hanniffy Presentation – Esperanza Magpantay Presentation – Rachel Sibande Presentation – Derval Usher How has mobile network data been used to inform policy? What building blocks need to be in place to leverage mobile phone network data for real-time policy analysis, decision making and impact tracking? Anonymised […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
9:00 am - 10:15 am Abu Dhabi Stat Hall
(TA2.06) Data interoperability in action: Enabling data integration for sustainable development across ecosystems
The availability of joined-up SDG data that is contextualized and more easily accessible holds great value for decision- makers, analysts and other stakeholders responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In this context, interoperability between data sources is key to integrate different sources of data, such as satellite imagery, telco data, and official statistics. […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
9:00 am - 10:15 am Dubai Stat Hall
(TA2.11) Innovative technology and partnerships for SDG 16 monitoring
Presentations Presentation – Armend Bekaj Presentation – Emmanuel Letouzé Presentation – Angela Me Presentation – Håvard Mokleiv Nygård Presentation – Hana Salama SDG 16 stands out among the SDGs as being particularly challenging for NSOs and the international community more broadly. Goal 16 has more tier 3 indicators than any of the other SDGs. New […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
9:00 am - 10:15 am Bayanat Hall
(TA3.04) Counting the excluded, the poorest and the most vulnerable who have been left behind, especially in urban areas
Presentations Presentation – Amanda Lenhardt Presentation – Dana R Thomson and Radheshyam Bhattarai Certain groups are ‘left behind’ due to their absence from available data. This is because the international household surveys (in particular DHS and MICS), which are the main sources of data for the reports on development progress typically omit by design: those […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
9:00 am - 10:15 am Sharjah Stat Hall
(TA3.12) Leaving No One Behind: The challenge and promise of disability disaggregated data
Presentations Presentation – Mitchell Loeb Presentation – Niel Roux Presentation – Pauline Thivillier Presentation – Rachael Beaven The session will focus on disability disaggregated data, opening with a talk on the importance of disaggregation in different contexts and the implications of failing to have information appropriately disaggregated by disability status. Included in the introduction will […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
9:00 am - 10:15 am DP World Hall
(TA5.09) New Approaches to Data Governance in the 21st Century: A View from Countries, Multilaterals, and Foundations
Presentations Presentation – Haishan Fu Presentation – Jake Porway Presentation – Phetsamone Sone Presentation – Fernando Perini Presentation – Gopi Krishna Khanal INTRO: Data Governance is a rapidly evolving concept; it means different things to governments; multilaterals; and foundations, but (particularly in light of recent events) these categories of data providers and users are focused […]
TA 5. Building trust in data and statistics
9:00 am - 10:15 am Ajman Stat Hall
(TA5.10) Community Data Collaborations to Achieve the SDGs
The inaugural public event of the Data4SDGs was a civic technology event, aimed at convening people from diverse backgrounds, experiences, expertise, occupations, and languages to build together priorities and actions that left no one behind: http://www.data4sdgs.org/index.php/news/sustainable-development-goals-community-event. As a global event, the World Data Forum has the opportunity to speak to the playful passion that is […]
TA 5. Building trust in data and statistics
9:00 am - 10:15 am Smart Dubai Hall
(TA6.06) The role of National Statistical Offices in enhancing Capacity Development of National Statistical Systems-experiences and lessons learned
More than one year after the launch of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data (CTGAP), it is important to understand the various aspects that are needed to implement the action plan. In addition to an overview of what are the needs to strengthen statistical capacity of the countries, it is important […]
TA 6. How far have we come?
9:00 am - 10:15 am Dewa Hall
(TA4.05) Bringing statistics where opinions and decisions are made
This session aims at bridging the gap between data producers and data users. By inviting them to sit together in the panel, it provides a great opportunity for the data users to listen to the true demands, ideas and challenges of the users. On the other hand, data users will have a chance to understand […]
TA 4. Understanding the world through data
10:30 am - 11:45 am Ajman Stat Hall
(TA1.04) Impact measurement, SDGs and support to official statistics– the role of private sector and partnerships
Presentations Presentation – Misha Belkindas Presentation – Anuj Mehra Presentation – Phetsamone Sone Presentation – Matthew Shearing Presentation – Impact Management with SDGs: The Experience with Private Sector Achieving the SDGs will require far more action and capital than governments, multilaterals, and foundations can provide. This session will bring focus to private sector’s role as […]
TA 1. New approaches to capacity development for better data
10:30 am - 11:45 am GCC-Stat Hall
(TA1.08) Effective Capacity Building and Technical Assistance in a world of data: How to say no and better coordinate technical assistance
Presentations Presentation – Qasem Said Al Zoubi As a result of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is huge demand on National Statistics Offices (NSOs) to produce high quality data, using surveys, registers, administrative data and big data. While all NSOs struggle to meet these demands, it is a particular challenge for NSOs in developing countries. […]
TA 1. New approaches to capacity development for better data
10:30 am - 11:45 am Dubai Stat Hall
(TA2.09) Integration and disaggregation of biodiversity data towards sustainable development
Presentations Presentation – Thomas Brooks Presentation – Melanie Heath Presentation – Shyama Pagad Presentation – Jon Paul Rodríguez Presentation – Benjamin Tregenna The innovative and interactive session will be a mix of short “”ignite”” presentations (7½ minutes for each of eight speakers) followed by 15 minutes questions and discussion. One major innovation of the Sustainable […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
10:30 am - 11:45 am Sharjah Stat Hall
(TA2.15) The Data Revolution: AI for Sustainable Development
Presentations Presentation – James Hodson Presentation – Jake Porway The ubiquity of new and open data sets offer the promise of boosting impact and scaling the services of social change organizations exponentially. These massive datasets combined with never-before-seen computing power could help identify effective interventions to combat structural poverty, better target health services to the […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
10:30 am - 11:45 am Bayanat Hall
(TA3.07) Data for Policy Action : Using Big Data to Drive Development for All
This session aims to facilitate a discussion around how big data – and data from citizens can be used to improve community’s lives. The session will involve the presentation of two practical examples from different parts of the world, where public service delivery has seen transformation and where initiatives have been taken forward that have […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
10:30 am - 11:45 am Abu Dhabi Stat Hall
(TA3.08) Leaving No One Behind: Confronting Inequalities Through Access to Civil Justice
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were transformational in their inclusion of justice issues alongside core development priorities. In SDG target 16.3 countries commit to make progress towards “ensur[ing] equal access to justice for all”. Enhancing access to civil justice is a key strategy to confront inequality, reduce poverty, improve local governance and secure meaningful development […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
10:30 am - 11:45 am Mofaic Hall
(TA3.16) Mind the Gap: Traditional and Non-traditional approaches to closing the gender data gap
Presentations Presentation – María Lily Rodríguez, Dr. Zacarías Duarte Presentation – Eric Swanson Presentation – Stefaan Verhulst Presentation – Francesca Grum Presentation – Jin Hong The gap in gender data has been well-publicized, but three years into the 15-year Global Goals agenda, have we made progress in closing this gap? And which approaches are proving […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
10:30 am - 11:45 am Dewa Hall
(TA5.07) Citizen-generated data: methodology, scale, and confidence in using CGD to measure the SDGs
Presentations Presentation – Rebecca Firth Presentation – Omar Seidu Presentation – Danny Lämmerhirt As part of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, 25 organisations working in Citizen Generated Data (CGD) have created a Working Group to address the barriers preventing CGD from being widely accepted by traditional data users in monitoring the SDGs. The […]
TA 5. Building trust in data and statistics
10:30 am - 11:45 am Smart Dubai Hall
(TA5.11) Building together for benefits to all: examples from the EU-MED regional cooperation in statistics
In the last 25 years, the EU and the MED countries have developed a very intense and fruitful collaboration on statistical issues that are common priorities. The collaboration allowed a regular exchange of experiences that led to better comparability and better quality in data production and dissemination in the South of the Mediterranean Sea. The […]
TA 5. Building trust in data and statistics
10:30 am - 11:45 am DP World Hall
(TA6.01) Monitoring the SDGs 3 years in: How are we doing?
Presentations Presentation – Clint Brown Presentation – Leesha Delatie-Budair Presentation – Gemma Van Halderen Presentation – Robert Ndugwa Presentation – Enrique Ordaz The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the accompanying sustainable development goals and targets were adopted 3 years ago in September 2015. Even before the 2030 Agenda was adopted, the United Nations Statistical […]
TA 6. How far have we come?
12:40 pm - 2:10 pm DP World Hall
(TA0.01) Opening session: Harnessing the power of data for sustainable development
Presentations Opening presentation – Mahmoud Mohieldin, Senior Vice President World Bank Group The United Nations World Data Forum 2018 is the second in a series of preeminent biennial events that bring together the technical, advocacy, and political spheres to harness the power of data to realize the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development for all. Convened […]
Opening
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Dewa Hall
(TA1.07) Capacity development – coordination, harmonisation and innovative approaches to capacity building from a partner and a donor perspective
Presentations Presentation – Stefan Andersson Participants from National Statistical Institutes and from different institutions / international organisations / companies – those providing for capacity development and training and those benefiting from capacity development measures – will discuss their ways and approaches to capacity development (peer-to-peer learning, training in the institutions, international training programmes for users […]
TA 1. New approaches to capacity development for better data
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Dubai Stat Hall
(TA2.04) From pixel to crop: how to mitigate pre-harvest loss for African smallholder farms using synergies across different data communities
Presentations Presentation – George Azzari Presentation – Juan Landivar Bowles Presentation – Sonja Betschart, Rose Funja and Michael Humber Almost 80 percent of the world’s poor people live in rural areas and rely primarily on agriculture for their livelihoods (goo.gl/o3hnAI). Reducing crop loss in rural households could greatly support global food security under UN Sustainable […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm DP World Hall
(TA2.17) Big Data for Sustainable Development: what does it take to get to the next level?
Presentations Presentation – Elena Alfaro Presentation – Robert Kirkpatrick Presentation – Martin Mubangizi Presentation – Heather Savory Presentation – Derval Usher Big data refers to the vast amount of information which is created as a result of people’s increasing use of digital tools such as – mobile phones, social networks, internet search engines, online payment […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Sharjah Stat Hall
(TA2.18) Federated System for the SDGs: Global and National Open SDG Data Hubs
Presentations Presentation – Nafir Massad Presentation – Paul Morrin Presentation – Benedict Mugambi Presentation – Enrique Ordaz The Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data, issued on 15 January 2017, recognizes the need to facilitate the application of modern technologies and new data sources to mainstream statistical activities to support the implementation of […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Mofaic Hall
(TA2.20) The Population Monitoring Continuum: Ensuring accurate measurements, from census to sensing
Presentations Presentation – Robert Chen The proposed session explores ways we count populations, from traditional censuses to satellite technology, to innovations in real-time sensing, and the use of mobile phone data. Accurate measurements of a population’s size and composition are critical to ensure that policies relating to sustainable development are responsive to the situation on […]
TA 2. Innovations and synergies across different data ecosystems
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Ajman Stat Hall
(TA3.14) Making internal displacement visible: the ultimate data challenge to leave no one behind
Presentations Presentation – Laura Kivelä Presentation – Emmanuel Letouzé This session focuses on improving statistics on internally displaced persons (IDPs), who in many contexts are particularly vulnerable, yet hard to provide statistics on. In 2017 alone, conflicts and disasters displaced an estimated 30 million people within their own countries. Many IDPs end up in protracted […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Bayanat Hall
(TA4.03) Empowering Those That Don’t “Speak” Data
Data is too often used “about” people, rather than “with” people. Are you looking for novel ways to engage and empower populations that don’t “speak” the language of data? This workshop session will introduce the Data Culture Project – our suite of hands-on, arts-based, activities that bring people together around data with a goal of […]
TA 4. Understanding the world through data
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Smart Dubai Hall
(TA5.08) Open Data: But How Open?
OPEN DATA: CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES Despite the availability of technology-enabled real time data, it is fair to say that we are yet to realize its full potential. Technology enabled data capturing is underutilized by NSOs and the private sector is collecting and using information in a largely self-regulated space; bringing with it well founded concerns […]
TA 5. Building trust in data and statistics
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Abu Dhabi Stat Hall
(TA6.03) A more efficient UN Statistical System in the era of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – What do we need?
The coordination of the United Nations statistical system has been a regular topic on the agenda of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC) in the past. With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the coordination became even more strategic. Illustrated in many different documents addressed to the UNSC in recent years, new challenges […]
TA 6. How far have we come?
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm GCC-Stat Hall
(TA6.09) Modernisation of national statistics – how far have those the most in need come?
Presentations Presentation – Qasem Saeed Al Zoubi Presentation – Toh Hock Chai Presentation – Ruth Minja Presentation – El-Iza Mohamedou Presentation – Salah Al Muzahmi Presentation – Roberto Luis Olinto Ramos The session would like to stimulate the exchange of practical experiences and discuss the opportunities and challenges in modernising statistics at national level. The […]
TA 6. How far have we come?
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm DP World Hall
(TA3.01) Improving Migration Statistics – the way forward
Presentations Presentation – Pedro de Alarcon Presentation – Cathy KRÜGER More people than ever live in a different country to the one in which they were born. Accompanying the increasing number of migrants are new migration patterns: modern communication technologies and the increased convenience of travel have made temporary and circular migration easier than ever; […]
TA 3. Leaving no one behind
