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
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
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
[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
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