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Investments to End Poverty 2015
The challenge of getting poverty to zero
The Sustainable Development Goals: joining-up new standards in a disconnected world
While more & more data is becoming available, much of it cannot be turned into useful information because it's published in different formats or to incompatible standards.
Sustainable Development Goals 2: joining-up new standards for ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture
This paper focuses in detail on SDG 2 in relation to other existing data standards that inform and contribute to it.
Uganda’s data ecosystem
National, continental and global development agendas are all calling for data to play a catalytic role in both the meeting and monitoring of ambitio
Household surveys: do competing standards serve country needs?
Our research finds that two-thirds of questions in the 2 most widely used household surveys are either identical or similar enough to be practically comparable.
The P20: methods for tracking the status of people in the poorest 20%
Agenda 2030 is clear in its ambitions—everyone should be included in global progress over the next 15 years. But most discussions of progress focus on aggr
Using community-generated data to deliver and track the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level
The project, led by the Open Institute, with Development Initiatives working as the partner responsible for data quality and analysis, has begun with a pil
Why was IODC2016 important for Joined-Up Data Standards?
In July this year we launched a consultation paper aimed at starting a discussion on what technical and political solutions to joined-up data challenges co
How can Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) be used to address the needs of databases?
This paper aims to find a practical approach to applying DCAT to satisfy the needs of a portal that provides dynamic visualisations & a database that drives it.