United Nations Regional Workshop on Data Dissemination and Communication THE 21 ST CENTURY DATA...

United Nations Regional Workshop on Data Dissemination and Communication

THE 21ST CENTURY DATA DISSEMINATION PARADIGM – AN AFRICAN PARADOX;

THE CASE OF UGANDA.

9TH SEPTEMBER 2013

Godfrey G. Nabongo – Uganda Bureau of Statistics

September 2013

Uganda Bureau of Statistics <> Plot 9 Colville Street , Kampala, Uganda<> Website: www.ubos.org Tel: +256(0)-41-4706000 <> E-mail: [email protected]

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CONTENTS

IntroductionData DisseminationThe Dissemination paradigmThe Emerging trends The Operating EnvironmentAfrican DilemmaUganda’s CaseChallenges – the paradoxRecommendationsConclusion

INTRODUCTION

UBOS is a semi- Autonomous Agency of government

whose mandate is the Production, Coordination and

Dissemination of socio-economic statistics; and is

responsible for Coordinating, Monitoring and Supervising

the NSS.


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DATA DISSEMINATION

It has to do with:• spreading, • scattering, • circulation, • dispersion, • diffusing, • rolling-out, • storage and

• transfer of data.

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DATA DISSEMINATION PARADIGM

• identification of user and customer groups Central Government Local Governments NGOs, Private Sector and Civil Society Educational institutions and public libraries Research institutions The General public Media

• Establishment of Databases• Development of dissemination systems• Development of metadata

EMERGING TRENDS

• Different service concepts for different user groups

• Better services in line with the service concepts• Increased use of visualisation and GIS • Customisation of the data• Making data access systems easy,

understandable and user friendly• Marketing the data and related services & how

to get them - efficiently and systematically • Necessity for metadata and data production

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Uganda Bureau of Statistics ¤ Plot 9 Colville Street, Kampala Uganda ¤ Website: www.ubos.org Tel: +256(0)-41-4706000 ¤ E-mail: [email protected]

Fast changing and high level IT optionsSocial Media

Mobile Devices

New Information Access CultureAll information, any place

Information explosion – Grey data

Digital populationsAll generations (builders, baby boomers, X, Y)

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DATA OPERATING TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT

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THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA DILEMMA

Legal environment - Weak, obscure and/or missingInformation policy, IT policy

Technological imbalances/ Apparent digital divideLow computer penetration – social surfing/ emailHigh mobile phone penetration – basically text and voice

Cultural impediments and social diversityPoor reading/research cultureLow statistical literacy/ numeric averseRelatively low education levelsMultiple Ethnicity/ multitude of languages

Chronic dependency on finished productsSurvey/census reports not data (spoon feeding)

Weak economic baseLow prioritisation of investment in data infrastructure & Initiatives

UGANDA’S CASE

Ugandainfo

Data & indicators from:

Censuses, Surveys and routine administrative sources on: Agriculture, Health, Education, Energy, Water, Housing, Gender, Revenue, Finance, Immigration etc

www.ubos.org

Other information – Governance, UBOS products: Reports, Indicators, etc

Country STAT

Data on Food and Agriculture

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UGANDA’s CASE Contd• Press Releases for Regular Indicators• Dissemination Workshops for Survey releases• Distribution of hard copy publications, CDs and email

(mailing list)• Enhancing the LRC (under Communication and PR)

capacity to handle data dissemination • Partnerships with Libraries/Resource Centres• Database dissemination partnerships (eg IPMUS,

Google)• UNSD-DFID Data compilation & Dissemination project (to

improve dissemination of development indicators through a central point with corresponding metadata)

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UGANDA CASE Contd

Achievements• Constituted a functional MDG sub committee.• Updated MDG database and identified missing

indicators.• Developed an MDG data development Strategy.• Enhanced capacity of MDG focal points in generating• metadata, production and management of MDG

database.• Matched all MDG indicators with relevant data sources

to address their sustainability.

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UGANDA CASE Contd

Lessons• Effectiveness of developing and sustaining the MDG

database depends on coordination, cooperation and collaboration of key players.

• SDMX exchange must be supported by a reasonable internet connectivity.

• Efforts underway to operationalise the National Statistical Data Bank concept to address the data quality, central data repository and exchange in the NSS.

• Support from the top leadership of the NSO is key.

• The incentive for the dissemination platform is key for continuous buy in of the respective MDAs.

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CHALLENGES• Many dissemination systems on offer BUT not

promoted outside NSOs

• Data dissemination systems often not indigenous – short lived, face support challenges

• Inadequate metadata

• Few local database users – Often remote/ no feedback

• Increasing information requests as opposed to data requests

• Challenges of Pricing data and related services

• Alternative Data sources on the internet (? Credible)

THE PARADOX

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• More effort be put into data dissemination systems• The shift to paperless dissemination • Multiple data dissemination tools• Difference in key target audiences viz their abilities• Less direct local access to data

Weak/poor data access and management infrastructureLow user capacity to access and manage data into desired forms

• Increasing information demand / user friendly formatsTranslationsVisualisationsSpartial analysis

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• More work to be done in disseminating and reaching the local stakeholders effectively

• Increased communication effort required

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THANK YOU!

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