Resilient Recovery Series: Data for Development and COVID-19

"New private sector data could be used to complement traditional public data to improve the delivery of services to people most in need" The data landscape has been changing rapidly, with the explosion of data from private sources, such as mobile phones, electronic transactions, and satellites. These new data could be used to complement traditional public data to improve... view more "New private sector data could be used to complement traditional public data to improve the delivery of services to people most in need" The data landscape has been changing rapidly, with the explosion of data from private sources, such as mobile phones, electronic transactions, and satellites. These new data could be used to complement traditional public data to improve the delivery of services to people most in need. Public data, collected by national statistical offices, form the foundation for how countries decide where to allocate their resources. But the coronavirus pandemic has drastically disrupted and hampered data collection efforts around the world – especially in developing countries. view less

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Topics: Pandemics, Private Sector Development, Health Information Technologies, ICT Data Monitoring, ICT Security, Data Privacy, Data Analytics, Public Health, Governance Indicators, Governance in Public Sector, International Connectivity, Access and Connectivity, Data, Open Data Policy, Personal Data Protection, Data Security
Keywords:
Covid-19, Covid data, Data Collection, coronavirus, public sector data, private sector data, data integration, data protection, Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, data privacy, privacy rights, Tracking and Tracing, private data
Language:
English

Presenter Info

Haishan Fu

Director, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group Haishan Fu is the Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group and Co-Chair of the Bank’s Development Data Council. In this capacity, Haishan leads and coordinates the development and implementation of the Bank’s development data agenda. She has been an active leader in the global statistical community, having served or currently serving as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, Council Member of the International Statistical Institute, and Co-Chair of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities among over 45 UN and other international development agencies, among others. Prior to joining the Bank in 2014, Haishan was Director of the Statistics Division at UNESCAP, served as the first Chief of Statistics of UNDP’s Human Development Report, and worked as Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Haishan holds a Ph.D. in Demography from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University.

Raka Banerjee

Project Coordinator, Development Data Group, World Bank Raka Banerjee is a Project Coordinator in the Development Data Group at the World Bank. She supports the Data Group in developing and executing priorities including departmental strategy, knowledge products, outreach, and communications. As part of the Development Data Council Secretariat, she supports World Bank institutional priorities around data including data governance and new data initiatives. Raka previously worked as Project Coordinator for the Living Standards Measurement Study team where she managed field-based data collection efforts, coordinated daily project operations and provided editorial and dissemination oversight for knowledge products. She holds a Masters in International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelors in International Studies from the University of Washington.