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Craig Hammer is a Senior Program Manager with the Development Data Group at the World Bank. He specializes in governance reforms, and in particular on open

Gender data are key to achieving gender equality and a form of empowerment for women and girls around the world. At the global level, gender data enables policy makers and businesses to take evidence-based decisions that increase women’s well-being, access to economic opportunities and overall development outcomes.

The datafication of agriculture promises better yields, reduced food loss and waste, and more farmers receiving fair pay for what they produce. This is potentially great news for the 570 million smallholder farmers worldwide whose production accounts for...

When COVID-19 hit the Gambia, the government was well-prepared to respond effectively. Thanks to a private-public sector project, anonymized big data from cellphone towers allowed policymakers to analyze migration patterns by tracking population...

Some say statistics is easy: you simply count. The observation that statistics is in essence counting is not wrong—what is wrong is the belief that counting is straightforward. Producing official statistics requires enormous effort, a commitment to being methodical...