Global Data Barometer Asia

D4D Asia has joined the Global Data Barometer project and the Global Community of Regional Hubs in fall 2020.

To set up regional hubs, Global Data Barometer team began with the Open Data for Development Network, through which they established hub partnerships for Latin America, MENA, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and a prospective hub for North America. These partnerships gave a strong foundation to build upon, and as GDB project aims to cover more than 120 countries, the project still had a few gaps, so an open call to cover the Eastern Partnership, European Union, Central Asia, Hong Kong, Russia, Small Pacific Island States, and Western Balkans was put out in September 2020.

Global Data Barometer project started developing the Global Data Barometer in 2019 in response to demand expressed at the 2019 Open Government Partnership Summit for updated, in-depth, country-level insights on data governance and availability. Throughout 2020 consultations on the study design and building a broad community of regional research hubs and thematic partners took place. We've been part of these processes and it has been a valuable contribution to our organisation.