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Global Symposium on Data and Digital Governance

Event Date: - Event Time: 08:30 am - 06:00 pm GMT +8
Country: China
Event Topic: Digital Government, Workshop, Open Government Data, Public Institutions for SDGs

Global Symposium on Data and Digital Governance

in Shanghai (19-20 October 2024, Shanghai, China) and Deqing (21-22 October 2024, Deqing, China) by UN DESA/DPIDG. 

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:

  • This Global Forum seeks to address the existing challenges and gaps in implementing national digital data governance frameworks among countries, through enhancing the institutional capacities of countries to utilize, manage and govern data in a comprehensive, objective and evidence-based manner, through regional and global cooperation. The aim is to build awareness and develop institutional capacities in building national data governance frameworks in developing countries, especially those in Africa and the Asia Pacific region.

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