Data for Policy

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Throughout Asia and the Pacific, 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 and the Pacific’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.