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Africa Regional Forum on Data Governance and Digital Government

Event Date: - Event Time: 08:30 am - 06:00 pm GMT +2
Country: Pretoria, South Africa
Event Topic: Digital Government, Workshop, Open Government Data, Public Institutions for SDGs

Africa Regional Forum on Data Governance and Digital Government in South Africa (2-4 October 2024, Pretoria, South Africa) is being organized by UN DESA/DPIDG with the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). 

The workshop is being organised under the scope of the UN Peace and Development Fund’s (UN PDF) capacity development project on “Developing institutional capacities for digital data management and cooperation to advance progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals”.  The aim of the UN PDF 2030-Sub-Fund Project is to implement innovative, forward-looking and pro-active projects in support of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

The objectives of the National Consultation Workshop are:

  • Support African countries to assess key data management and governance challenges and strengthen government officials’ and stakeholders’ knowledge of sound and secure data management, working closely with UN RCOs and UNCTs.
  • Support national and regional initiatives in fostering an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for digital data cooperation through mutual benefit, win-win outcomes and common development.
  • Support countries in the African region to foster institutional capacities for developing national digital data policies and strategies for ensuring data quality, access, security, privacy and usage, and for promoting data security through consultation, collaboration and shared benefits.
  • Promote good governance and accountability in digital government initiatives by encouraging member states to adopt robust data governance frameworks that enhance public service delivery and transparency.

The primary thematic areas of the Workshop are as follows:

Four (4) pillars of National Data Governance: Policy, Institutions, People/Partnerships, Processes:

  1. Policy: existing policy and regulatory framework
  2. Institutions: existing institutional framework
  3. People: existing data ecosystem and mapping of stakeholders
  4. Processes: existing data processes
     

Six (6) elements of National Data Governance:

  1. Data standards and classification
  2. Data sharing, exchange and interoperability, including open government data
  3. Data security (and data protection)
  4. Data privacy (and ethics)
  5. National data infrastructure (including e.g., datacenter, cloud, data services, etc.)
  6. Linking data governance to digital identity)

Link to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development