10,000+ “Now Is the Time to Make the Case for More Effective Investment in Statistical and Data Systems”

10,000+ 300+ organizations users and producers of data and statistics 70+ sessions

180+ countries 20 virtual exhibit spaces

SESSION HIGHLIGHTS

• Use of data to track and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 at all levels (TA4.01) • Understanding the data needs to design interventions for groups of population that are most impacted by the pandemic (TA3.01, 3.02, 3.04, 3.06) • Successful collaborations across national statistical systems and the private sector (TA2.04, 2.09) • Approaches for integrating citizen science into the official SDG monitoring mechanisms and proposal to use unofficial statistics for SDG reporting (TA2.01, 4.05) • Ways to communicate data and statistics, and how to engage with users (TA4.02, 4.03, 4.06) • Ideas and challenges in data use, data privacy, data protection and security (TA5.01, 5.05, 5.08) • Launch of a new online portal for The World's Women 2020 (TA3.03) • Use of maps and spatial data to improve the lives of communities (TA2.02, 2.03, 5.02, 5.03) • Use of administrative data sources (TA1.01) • Lessons from the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms (TA5.04, 2.07) • New understanding of how to use data in journalism (TA4.04) • Way ahead to increase funding for data and establish mechanisms for effective use of funding Statement of the Global Data Community’s response to (TA6.02) COVID-19 LAUNCHED!!

“Now is the time to make the case for more effective investment in statistical and data systems”

- United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed

Number of participants worldwide

Participants by organization type (%) Participants by age groups (%) PARTICIPANT PROFILE Media 1 65 and over 2 51% Other 2 Donor / Philanthropic body 2 55-64 7 Geospatial 3 45-54 17 Private sector 11 National Statistical Office 13 35-44 28 Civil society 15 25-34 33 47% Other Government 15 15 to 24 10 International agencies 16 Academia / Professional body 22 Prefer not to say 4 * 2% prefer not to say Note: Based on 10,117 registered participants

RESOURCES

For programme and more details, visit www.UNDataForum.org @UNDataForum Live and pre-recorded sessions available on the event platform: https://ve.attendify.com/index/e19y30/s_e19y30/login UNstats youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdA8jZ76hxcMvc-S2lUx-Og #UNDataForum Link to full response statement: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/hlg/Global-data-communitys-response-to-COVID-19/ Any questions or to partner, email us: [email protected] LIST OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS IBM Global Watson Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU) (incudes organizers’ and speakers’ organizations) Igarapé Institute Salesforce.org Indigenous Peoples Program at Oregon Health and Science University/Science and Save the Children 509 Sanitation Technology Center Science and Technology Facilities Council a2i Program of the ICT Division Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity AARP Information & eGovernment Authority Senate of the Philippines Accountable Now Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Sensor Advice Action for Sustainable Development Institut National de la Statistique (INS) Sharp Memorial School for the Blind Africa Digital Rights Hub Institute of Global Homelessness Small Arms Survey Africa Policy Institute Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Italy Smart Analytics African Media Hub The Institute for State Effectiveness Smart Dubai Agronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto South African National Space Agency (SANSA) AI Initiative at The Future Society Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto stability.ai AidData Interactive Things Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities Amazon Inter-American Development Bank Stanford University Amnesty International Kenya Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC) AO CIDP "ANIMA" International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore International Budget Partnership Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich Asia Open Data Network International Civil Society Centre Statistics Canada Association for Technology and Structures in Agriculture (KTBL) International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Statistics Finland Bern Network International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Statistics Indonesia (BPS) Bern University of Applied Sciences International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation International Disability Alliance Statistics Netherlands (CBS) BRAC Institute for Governance and Development, BRAC University International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Statistics New Zealand Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) International Institute for Sustainable Development Statistics Norway Cabinet of the Government of Mongolia International Monetary Fund (IMF) Statistics Poland CBM International Statistical Institute (ISI) Statistics Research Institute, Korea CBS (Center for Global Development International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Statistics Spain (INE) Center for Open Data Enterprise International Trade Centre (ITC) Stellenbosch Municipality Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia IPUMS Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution – Ocean Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) Strathmore University Centre for Humanitarian Data Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Surgo Foundation Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico Internacional - CEPEI Johns Hopkins University Center of Civic Impact Sustainable Coastlines CERN Joint IDP Profiling Service (JIPS) Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Chongqin Normal University Joint Research Center Swedish International Development Agency CIECS-CONICET Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Citizen Science Center Zurich Kenya Revenue Authority Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) City of Los Angeles Kisumu County Government, Kenya Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) CIVICS.com kNOwVAWdata Swiss Human Security Division CIVICUS Monitor Land Portal Foundation Swiss Permanent Mission in Geneva Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. Lars Schöbitz GmbH Tanzania Data Lab Colégio Paulo VI Leonard Cheshire, Kenya Telefonica Commitment to Equity initiative (CEQ) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Telia, Division X Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) Lumos Foundation TerraFrame Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Network Macmillan Keck The Freedom Fund Consortium for Street Children (CSC) Madagascar Initiatives for Digital Innovation (MAIDI) The Future Society Consultora particular para ONEs y BID Madagascar YMCA The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Cooperativa De Ensino Superior Politécnico Universitário maffick.com The GovLab CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute Malawi National Statistics Office The Open Institute Data for the Blue Future Maldives National Bureau of Statistics The Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf Data Protection Office (DPO), Mauritius Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Thomson Reuters Labs Data2X Mastercard Thunderbird School for Global Management Data-Pop Alliance Mathematica Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research DataReady Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Bristol Poverty Institute at the University of Bristol, UK Deep McGill University TRUPR Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) McKinsey & Company Twalet Total Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the United Médecins Sans Frontières Twaweza East Africa Nations Menstruación y Dignidad Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Development Initiatives Microsoft Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of NCDs Devex Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) UN Global Pulse Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) (UN Foundation) Ministry of Finance, Colombia UN Women Digital Services of West Java Province Ministry of Health DRC, ANICiiS UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office DiploFoundation Ministry of Health, Kenya UN-Habitat dLab Ministry of Health, Uganda United Abolitionists Earth Journalism Network Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Viet Nam United Disabled Persons of Kenya Educational Consulting Success Ministry of Manpower, Singapore United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) Ministry of Planning and Development, Benin United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) EPoD India at LEAD at Krea University Minsait United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity European Commission (EU) MIT Connection Science United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) MIT Media Lab United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) MTN Group United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) European Space Agency Municipal Government of Carmona, Philippines United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Facebook Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) (UNECLAC / CEPAL) Federal Competitiveness and Statistic Authority National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Federal Department of Home Affairs, Switzerland National Bureau of Statistics of China United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland (FOEN) National Center for Health Statistics (CDC) United Nations Global Pulse Federation of Ethiopian Associations of Persons with Disabilities (FEAPD) National Commission on Space Activities - Argentina United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Federation of European National Statistical Societies (FENStatS) National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Ghana United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor inSierra Leone (FEDURP) National Institute of Statistics and Censuses - INEC Ecuador United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) FinMark Trust National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis (INSAE), Benin United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) foraus National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) French National institute for health and medical research (Inserm) National Statistics Bureau, Bhutan United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD-DESA) Future State New York University Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs Gallup, Inc. Nielsen University College London (UCL) Gather Northwestern University University of Botswana GeoCensos Foundation Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) University of British Columbia Georgetown University Ocean Conservancy University of California Ghana Data Protection Commission Office for National Statistics, UK (ONS) University of Chicago, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) Open Data Charter University of Colorado, Boulder GIZ Data Lab Open Data Institute University of Massachusetts Lowell Global Affairs Canada Open Data Latin American Initiative (ILDA) University of Michigan Global Colombia Certificación Open Data Network for Development (OD4D) University of Oxford Global Data Lab Open Data Watch University of Twente Global Financing Facility (GFF) Open Institute, Kenya UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near Global Infrastructure Basel (GIB) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) East) Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency Oxford University Vital Strategies Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Walk Free Foundation Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Washington Group on Disability Statistics Google Parliamentary Committee on Economy and Finance, Albania We All Count Government of Grenada Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) WikiRate Government of Sierra Leone PharmAccess Group William and Flora Hewlett Foundation GRID3 Philippine Institute for Development Studies World Bank Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute (PSRTI) World Bank – UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) Harvard Kennedy School Programme at the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) World Blind Union Health Department of Foiania, capital of Goias State Public Health England World Economic Forum Health GeoLab Collaborative Qatar Computing Research Institute World Food Programme (WFP) HelpAge International Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre World Health Organisation (WHO) Nigeria National Steering Committee, Nigeria Registrar-General, Civil Registration Services World Meteorological Organization (WMO) House of Representatives of the Philippines Restless Development WORLD Policy Analysis Center Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Resource Watch World Resources Institute (WRI) Humanity & Inclusion Retro Rabbit YouthMappers Humor That Works Safaricom PLC Hungarian Central Statistical Office Sahara Ventures