Building sustainable geospatial data resources
Building sustainable geospatial data resources
3 September, 2016 •Similar Articles
Why using public-sector data for policy is harder than it looks
Across Africa, as elsewhere in the world, governments are increasingly aware that data is essential for effective policymaking. Yet when ministries...
What will determine the success of Rwanda’s data governance push?
Across Rwanda’s ministries and agencies, years of digital investment have produced large volumes of data. The digitisation effort led to nume...
Reassessing the role of data protection authorities in Africa
The global data governance landscape is rapidly evolving, presenting an opportune moment for African policymakers to ...
AI readiness starts with data capability
Across the world, countries are exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform...
Where we are with the collection and use of GIS data.
The purpose of this paper is to present the potential value that geospatial data has for regulators and the sustainability of different data collection methodologies that regulators can drive for GIS. It reviews two recent pilot projects and one ongoing project, to test different geospatial data
collection models and compares them to previous models employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its partners.
insight2impact (i2ifacility) was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme was established and driven by Cenfri and Finmark Trust.