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Shaida Badiee is a former director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group and now leads an NGO, Open Data Watch. Credit: IISD/ENB | Kiara Worth After nearly two decades running the World Bank’s Development Data Group, Shaida Badiee now works to help developing nations improve their data systems. And she has a clear message for donor countries: individual aid projects can be helpful, but the real need is for basic data infrastructure During her long career in strategic data management, S...

Report shows slow progress on sex-disaggregated data A group of women wearing saris in India. A new report highlights the limited availability of sex-disaggregated information related to COVID-19 and other societal issues. Copyright: Suffix(Public domain). Speed read Indexes suggest that such data is not gathered in the first place General open data publication is making huge strides globally Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s ...

Most countries in the world are not publishing data disaggregated by sex, thereby putting a strain on efforts to improve gender equality, according to the latest Open Data Inventory.