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Tanzania has seen significant improvements to its national development data infrastructure in recent years. In February 2016 the country adopted an Open Data Policy aimed at increasing access to government data and promoting increased transparency and partnerships for social and economic development. Key government data has been made available for use by civil society organizations (CSOs) and the media through an open data portal. Additionally, the 2016-2021 National Development Plan includes among its key objectives the need to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets into its Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.However, existing data initiatives are largely government driven and do not take into account data from or about civil society actors. In particular, Tanzania lacks a dedicated platform and framework for collecting, sharing and analyzing data on philanthropy. In September 2015, inspired by similar initiatives in other East African Countries, the Foundation for Civil Society partnered with the East Africa Association of Grantmakers (EAAG) to form the Tanzania National Philanthropy Forum (TPF). The launch of the TPF marks an opportunity for the philanthropy community in Tanzania to come together and strengthen its voice and influence in national development processes.

As part of Uganda's commitment to the Sustainable Development Agenda, the country has made substantial progress toward improved national development data—including the launch of a Development Data Hub supported by Development Initiatives and a review of open data readiness jointly undertaken by the government and the World Bank. Uganda however, lacks an organized framework for collecting and sharing reliable and comparable data on philanthropy. As such, the newly established Uganda National Philanthropy Forum (UPF) represents a key mechanism for the sector to consolidate its e orts and hone its contributions to national development. The forum was established in October 2015, facilitated by the East Africa Association of Grantmakers (EAAG), in partnership with Independent Development Fund (IDF), Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations (DENIVA) and GoBig Hub. Its objective is to explore strategies for consolidating and organizing the philanthropy sector in Uganda.As a follow up to the UPF agenda on advancing philanthropy data in Uganda, EAAG and the Foundation Center in partnership with IDF and DENIVA hosted a Data Scoping Meeting on October 25th 2016. The objective of the meeting was to explore opportunities to strengthen data sharing and management to enhance the sector's coordination and in uence on national development policy. The meeting brought together 35 foundations, trusts and other local philanthropy organizations.

Awareness of the value of data in achieving important social and development goals has been increasing in Ghana in recent years. In 2011, Ghana signed the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative with aims to secure commitments from governments to promote transparency, fight corruption and harness data and new technology to strengthen governance. The government also created the National Information and Technology Agency (NITA) in 2011 to develop and manage an open government data portal as part of a movement to make government data more available. Over the last few years, NITA has been working towards setting up repositories and portals of government data.Because existing data initiatives are largely driven by the government, they usually do not take into account data from or about civil society actors. In particular, Ghana lacks a dedicated platform and framework for collecting, sharing, and analyzing data on philanthropy. With this in mind and to address this issue, Foundation Center, in collaboration with SDG Philanthropy Platform and African Philanthropy Network, co-convened a data scoping meeting on October 4, 2017 in Accra. The specific objectives of the data scoping meeting were to:1. Understand the value and opportunities for advancing the philanthropy data agenda in Ghana.2. Establish common principles for collaborative data and knowledge management.3. Identify key data and knowledge challenges and needs.4. Explore existing technologies for collecting and sharing data and knowledge.5. Set local data and knowledge goals and priorities.This report summarizes the outcomes of the data scoping meeting, including highlights from the discussions and key recommendations.

Why data is a major geopolitical factor Data is one of the most valuable resources in today's global competition – but it is not yet seen as a global common that leads to collaboration. So far, global data flows are still governed through a maze of multilateral, bilateral, unilateral, and ad hoc rules, principles, and […]
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AbstractIn March 2021, the European Commission announced Europe's Digital Decade (Europe's Digital Decade: Commission sets the course towards a digitally empowered Europe by 2030. European Commission Press Release. Access on https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_983). Here the Commission sets the course towards a digitally empowered Europe by 2030. In February 2020, the European Commission published 'A European Strategy for Data' (European data strategy: Making the EU a role model for a society empowered by data. European Commission, February 2020. Access on: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019–2024/europe-fit-digital-age/european-data-strategy_en (2020)) as part of a wider drive concerning digital transformation and policy. In this article, we analyse the publication as it touches on broader themes ranging from digital literacy, to cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence. Within this context, in this article, we use the EC publication as a point of departure to explore themes central to national and international digital transformation and policy writ large. As such, this article is to be read as a thematic analysis rather than a close reading of the EC's publication. The article is divided into three parts: an executive findings and recommendations section (where our main findings are articled); Themes and Key Takeaways (where we thematically flesh out the document); and, EU Data Strategy document summary (where we provide an overview summary the document itself).

Part 2: eEnvironment and Cross-Border Services in Digital Agenda for Europe ; International audience ; The OGD2011 project launches the 1st Open Government Data Conference Austria and brings together international and national experts in the area of Open Government Data as well as representatives of the main four open data stakeholder groups: politicians, citizens, industry and the public administration in Austria for the first time in 2011 in Vienna. But OGD2011 is more than a conference: in the course of four workshops with representatives of the 4 mentioned stakeholder groups in Spring 2011 the expectations & requirements of these groups as well as challenges & threats and open questions & important issues of the open data process in Austria have been evaluated and analysed. As an output of this analysis as well as of the conference the OGD2011 project team publishes the OGD White Book Austria. This paper gives an overview over the outcomes of the OGD2011 project.

This essay, part of "Data Strategy in the Digital Age—Special Report", a collection of essays commissioned by the International Law Research Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), exploring topics including the rationale for a data strategy, the role of a data strategy for Canadian industries, and policy considerations for domestic and international data governance. The essay notes that a major challenge in thinking about a national and international "data strategy" stems from the fundamental tensions between what information "wants" to be: free and shared, but also expensive, owned and controlled. Sometimes, information "wants" to be dangerous. Contemporary discourse around the governance of information often refer to data as "the new oil" or "the new gold". These metaphors imply ownership and exclusive control and emphasize the money that can be made by those who control data—the private benefits that they might derive from its exploitation, not the aggregate value shared by society as a whole—while ignoring that much more is at stake. The essay suggests using a better metaphor: data as "the new sea." Unlike oil or gold, but like the sea, data and information are non-rivalrous resources that can be used simultaneously by everyone without being diminished. Built around similar tensions between what the sea "wants to be": free, shared and open; expensive and owned; empowering and dangerous; the law of the sea and its historical development provide a useful framework for thinking about the national and international governance of data.

"Big data--the enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitized--is revolutionizing business. Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy ... and reveals why it''s not something they can leave to the I.T. department. Sharing best practices from companies that have implemented a big data strategy including Walmart, InterContinental Hotel Group, Walt Disney, and Shell, Think Bigger covers the most important big data trends affecting organizations, as well as key technologies like Hadoop and MapReduce, and several crucial types of analyses"--EBL