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Capacity Development and Consultation Workshop on Samoa National Data Governance Framework

Event Date: - Event Time: 08:00 am - 06:00 pm GMT+13
Country: Samoa
Event Topic: Digital Government, Workshop, Open Government Data, Public Institutions for SDGs

A capacity development Workshop on a National Data Governance Framework in Samoa (8-9 May 2024, Apia, Samoa) is being organized by UN DESA/DPIDG with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) of Samoa. 

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:

  • 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 Samoa.
  • 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 Samoa.
  • 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:

  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)