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What does the advent of the digital age mean for national statistical offices?

January 29, 2022

National statistical offices (NSOs), such as GSS in Ghana and NISR in Rwanda, are authoritative sources for countries’ socio-economic data. NSOs either produce data or coordinate their production for government planning and budgeting. In the digital age, though, many are at a crossroads in … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Digitalisation, Statistics

Disseminating aggregate data and associated metadata using SDMX

August 28, 2015

Despite good intentions, there are times when data sharing appears to be an added task in many organisations. The issue gets complicated when the data in question is statistical in nature. Statistical data is inherently complex. It is highly structured … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, SDMX, Statistics

The Innovations Team at the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)

June 29, 2015

The Innovations Team (Lab) formally came into existence at the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) in May 2014. Since then, the following poster, enunciating the ambitious nature of the enterprise – ‘Future of statistics, Force of technology & … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Innovation, Open Data, Statistics

What will it take to improve statistical data dissemination in the digital realm?

August 19, 2014

[Summary: In this blog post, I argue that the three fundamental ways to improve data dissemination using digital platforms in National Statistics Offices (NSOs) could be; instilling comprehensive data curation processes, automated data transfers from aggregated tables to the online … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Interoperability, Open Data, Statistics
NADA at NISR

Lowest Common Denominator in Data Curation

July 18, 2014

A few months back, while participating in a World Bank study of national statistics offices (NSOs) in the context of government-sponsored open data initiatives and later, on a research project to provide guidance to NSOs on data dissemination platforms in … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, Statistics

SMS based real-time monitoring of census data collection using mobile phones

November 18, 2013

Rwanda conducted it’s latest and the 4th Population and Housing Census (PHC) in August 2012. In this massive exercise, around 16,700 enumerators, each assigned to one of the Enumeration Areas (EAs), visited every household in the country. The fieldwork, consisting … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Gov 2.0, ICT, Uncategorized

Designing a responsive National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS)

June 25, 2013

As we deliberate post-2015 agenda chalking out global development directions after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there’s a renewed interest in the availability, quality and accessibility of data and statistics for guiding policy, monitoring progress, measuring results, and supporting analysis. … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Gov 2.0, Open Data

Monitoring and Evaluation should be about Open Data

May 28, 2013

Essentially, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is about learning and finding out what is or is not working in a project or programme set-up. An effective M&E system facilitates tracking this. However, setting up an M&E system to attain this objective … Continue reading →

Posted in Gov 2.0, ICT for Development

Getting data used

June 4, 2012

In late 2003, when I was looking for content and services for the telecentres (or ICT Kiosks) in Orissa-India, one of the things that kept on coming up in discussions within our team was, ensuring their usage. And that meant, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Design, Gov 2.0, ICT, Open Data, Website

Designing NISR website

May 29, 2012

I do realise that designing a website is a complex job! And this realisation was reinforced recently – when I embarked on creating the new website of the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). Being the national statistics office … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Design, Gov 2.0, ICT, Website

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