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Technology facilitates the rapid flow of vast quantities of data across the world. These cross-border flows have the potential to unlock substantial benefits for development and poverty reduction. Yet, many policymakers worry about the issues this raises, such as data protection and security, national security, law enforcement and supervisory data access, and competition. In response, many countries turn to a set of policies known as “data localization” in an effort to exercise more control over nationally generated data.
In 2019, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) was hoping to increase its use of data among a diverse group of data users. However, at that time, the Bureau did not have the adequate capacity and technical expertise to make its data more accessible and usable.