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Venue: Crowne Plaza, Vientiane
(lunch and coffee breaks will be provided at the Workshop venue)
Number of participants: 50 - 60
(Note: by invitation only; including organizers, resource persons, and support staff)
UN DESA in collaboration with the Ministry of Technology and Communications (MTC) of the Government of Lao PDR will be hosting a national consultation workshop with representatives from governments, private, public sector, civil societies, academia and other key stakeholders to develop a national data governance framework.
The objective of the National Consultation Workshop is three-fold, as follows:
Engage stakeholders from different agencies and other non-government stakeholders to participate in the official dialogue and knowledge exchange on proposing a national data governance framework for Lao PDR
Discuss the existing opportunity and gap assessments for proposed focus areas, emerging from dialogue and interaction among workshop participants, including the proposed UN DESA data governance framework of 4 pillars and 6 elements
Identify the next course of action in strategic planning and implementation for setting up a national data governance framework
The primary thematic areas of the Workshop are as follows:
Four (4) pillars of National Data Governance: Policy, Institutions, People/Partnerships, Processes:
Policy: existing policy and regulatory framework;
Institutions: existing institutional framework
People: existing data ecosystem and mapping of stakeholders
Processes: existing data processes
Six (6) elements of National Data Governance:
Data standards and classification
Data sharing, exchange and interoperability, including open government data
Data security (and data protection)
Data privacy (and ethics)
National data infrastructure (including e.g., datacenter, cloud, data services, etc.)
Linking data governance to digital identity)