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30/09/19

联合国寻求在发展中国家弥补数据差距

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加纳的奥马尔·塞杜（Omar Seidu）（中心）在2019年9月25日在纽约的福特基金会（Ford Foundation）举行的数据活动中发表讲话。Seidu表示，投资国家统计局是实现＃Data4now的关键。版权：黛安·邦德拉夫（Diane Bondareff）,（CC BY-NC 2.0）。这张照片已被裁剪。

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  • 发展中国家的数据通常过时或不完整
  • An initiative to address this issue was launched at the UN in New York
  • Data Now aims to boost access to quality, development-related data

经过：Anita Makri

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[纽约]有愿意堵塞空白的倡议datato meet theSustainable Development Goals(SDGs) has been launched by the UN’s deputy secretary-general, Amina Mohammed, at its General Assembly in New York.

UN chief António Guterresissued a global calllast week for a “decade of action” to deliver the 2030 agenda that iscurrently off-track。发射Data for Nowon Wednesday (25 September), Mohammed said “we need to respond here and now with the data".

The political declarationadopted by countries at the SDGs summit during the week of high-level meetings calls for strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices (NSOs) to boost the availability, access and quality of development-related data, which is often outdated and incomplete.

“We don’t want to be navigating by looking in the rear-view mirror. We want decision-makers to use data about the world as it is now,”

Claire Melamed，全球可持续发展数据伙伴关系执行董事

“我们必须确保数据-或缺乏does not leave people behind,” said Mohammed, adding that disaggregated data is “absolutely necessary” to do this.

“How do we know we’re making progress on the SDGs?” asked Vera Songwe, executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, in a speech at the event. She said the basic statistics needed to answer that question were missing and time was too short to stick with traditional methods.

New技术offer “an unprecedented opportunity to solve this problem”, according toData for Now, a partnership在全球可持续发展数据合作伙伴关系之间，世界银行，联合国统计局和可持续发展解决方案网络（SDSN）数据专家的趋势网络之间。

该计划旨在将联合国，私营部门，公民社会和捐助者汇集在一起​​，以提供国家技术支持。加入的前八个国家是孟加拉国，哥伦比亚，加纳，蒙古，尼泊尔，巴拉圭，卢旺达和塞内加尔。

Omar Seidu, who heads Ghana’s demographic statistics department, said the country has started mapping out which SDGs its census will measure. It is also exploring how to gather data from citizens or companies.

为此，第一步是对1985年的日期进行大修法律，赋予了NSO的权力来管理数据政府Seidu解释说，部门并寻找新来源，并补充说：“法律是我们最重要的工具。”

Updating the law is also a priority in Paraguay, where statistics regulations date from 1942, according to Iván Mauricio Ojeda, the country’s director general of statistics, surveys and censuses.

Ariunzaya Ayush, who chairs Mongolia’s National Statistics Office, backed the call for using data sources other than NSOs, as long as they meet high-quality standards.

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UN chief António Guterres issued a global call from New York for a “decade of action” to deliver the floundering 2030 agenda。
Credit: Anita Makri

这17个可持续发展目标带有一个约定的框架，其中包括232个指标，表明各国需要衡量。史蒂夫·麦克利（Steve Macfeely）告诉SciDev.Net。MacFeely is head of statistics and information at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which is responsible for reporting on some of those indicators and is unconnected to Data for Now.

MacFeely认为，创新方法的使用是这项新计划的优势。他说：“但是我认为对技术解决方案的关注可能是错误的重点。”“关于大数据等等，有很多兴奋，但是利用行政数据将是许多发展中国家的重大胜利。”

Claire Melamed, executive director at the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, said: “We don’t want to be navigating by looking in the rear-view mirror. We want decision-makers to use data about the world as it is now.

"We will work with seven pioneer countries over the next year to identify their priorities … and then broker the country-level partnerships that can help them to do that, with data, technical support, and training.
“我们希望在明年，我们将有一些例子，说明如何生成及时的数据来支持我们先锋国家不同领域的可持续发展目标制定和监视。”

One of the examples highlighted by Data for Now is a partnership between telecommunications company Vodafone and the statistical service in Ghana to help prevent the spread of epidemics using aggregate, anonymised mobile data to track people’s movement in real time.

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Vodafone表示该计划将使政府部门能够更有效地分配资源，并确定面临新风险的领域疾病outbreaks.

穆罕默德（Mohammedbeplay足球体育的微博部。她说，几乎没有政府的同事可以看到环境挑战如何与贫困，冲突和其他发展问题联系在一起，并补beplay足球体育的微博充说：“我们需要数据来做到这一点。”

Seidu引用了加纳东部社区与采矿公司之间的冲突，强调了更好的知识如何使人们动员对环境有害的工业行动的权力。beplay足球体育的微博他说：“这就是我们想要拥有的数据。”