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Capacity Development and Consultation Workshop on Lao PDR National Data Governance Framework

Event Date: - Event Time: 09:00 am - 05:00 pm
Country: Laos
Event Topic: Digital Government, Workshop

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)