Data for Policy

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.
 

Evidence-Based Policymaking: A Path to Data Culture

May 17, 2023

Blog Post

Using and sharing data systematically could make local development in Nepal far more effective.

 

A Short Workshop Guide to Positioning Data for Development Initiatives for Scaling

April 18, 2021

Publication

Over a three-month period in 2020, The Asia Foundation’s office in Myanmar and Saraswati, an Indonesian company that promotes development innovation, collaborated to help teams working on Data for Development (D4D) initiatives explore how to scale their impact. We set out to develop a set of guiding questions, construct online interactive workshop-… Read more