Data for Policy
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Throughout Asia, governments and citizens are taking innovative approaches to collecting, digitizing, analyzing, and visualizing data to improve local decision-making processes. Civ-Tech organizations are using novel approaches to collecting and disseminating citizen perceptions and opinions, and enabling greater participation in policymaking, while Gov-Tech actors are improving the ways in which government bureaucracies function. They are important actors in Asia’s burgeoning data ecosystems. Collaborating with both, in numerous locations, the Foundation acts as an intermediary, convening and facilitating dialogue and building diverse partnerships between governments, civil society, citizens, and the private sector to improve the collection and use of data in governance.
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Evidence-Based Policymaking: A Path to Data Culture
Using and sharing data systematically could make local development in Nepal far more effective.
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Bringing Data to Center Stage: Asia Foundation at the Digital Nepal Conclave
On June 18 and 19, The Asia Foundation’s Data for Development (D4D) program joined the Digital Nepal Conclave 2022 For Digital Transformation held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The conclave is an initiative […]
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Data Challenge Leverages Local Expertise in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
Twenty-one unique data-driven solutions for a range of development challenges in the Philippines’ Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) were recognized during the BARMM Virtual Data Challenge 2020 Awards […]
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Promoting Open Data in Nepal’s Private Sector
The rapid growth, in our era, of data-driven decision-making offers both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses at every level in Nepal. As government agencies, research institutes, and the […]
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Open Data Day Nepal 2018
If you produce data, publish it. If you have data, use it. If you don’t have data, demand it. On March 3, Open Data Day Nepal 2018 with as theme […]
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Photo Blog: Nepal Celebrates Open Data Day
On March 3, data enthusiasts and advocates convened in Nepal’s historic Durbar Square to mark Open Data Day. Celebrated in many cities across the globe, the day highlights the importance […]
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Building an Open Data Ecosystem in Nepal
On March 3, hundreds of groups from around the world will celebrate Open Data Day to showcase the value of open data for communities and to encourage the adoption of […]
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New Leap in Visualizing Development Data Across Asia
“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” It’s a bold statement featured in a recent headline from The Economist that no doubt raises eyebrows, but also […]
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Local Data Sheds New Light on Violence in Southeast Asia
In the last few months, a spate of coordinated bomb attacks in Thailand days after a constitutional referendum, new bloodshed in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and violent protests in the lead-up […]
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New Online Portal Provides Greater Budget Transparency in Myanmar
After four months of much-awaited pronouncement, on July 29 Myanmar’s National League of Democracy-led government finally released its 12-Point Economic Policy outlining key priorities under the country’s new reform strategy. […]
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Desecuritizing Transboundary Water in South Asia
Severe floods in the Kashmir region of Northern India and Pakistan over the past few weeks have taken 450 lives so far, and uprooted thousands of residents on both sides of the highly politicized border. Heavy monsoon rains caused the Chenab and Jhelum rivers (tributaries of the Indus River system) to overflow their banks…
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