New UN stats report:

Updates to #SDGs Indicators Database (232 of 234 indicators covered; 3.3M records available), expanded data + metadata exchange, plus work on administrative data, household surveys, statistical training networks, and #CitizenData.

https://ow.ly/WmvF50Y5F4E

Moments that Defined the 2025 Data Community For the development data community, 2025 was a defining year, marked by disruption and reinvention, major funding cuts, political shifts, and unprecedented strains on data systems just when demand for data reached all-time highs.

Excellent piece from Open Data Watch on what shaped the global #data community over the past year.

From funding cuts to #CitizenData to political pushback, there’s a lot here for anyone tracking progress on the #SDGs.

opendatawatch.com/blog/moments-that-define...

👩‍⚕️ How can #CitizenData strengthen national responses to climate-sensitive diseases?

#2025Highlight 8️⃣ takes us back to our convenings with partners in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Colombia, and Vietnam to explore this question.

Learn more about the initiative at buff.ly/lnuBqgT

CBO Hit by Suspected Nation-State Cyberattack The Congressional Budget Office has been the subject of an apparent cyber incident, officials confirmed Friday, raising concerns that adversaries may have gained

Once again this is why this administration is a miserable failure in protecting #citizendata www.bankinfosecurity.com/cbo-hit-by-s...

Data Literacy, Citizen Analysis, and the Shift to a Data‑Enabled Culture I’ve never been fond of the phrase data‑driven. It can imply that people should surrender the wheel to whatever the chart says. I prefer data‑enabled: a culture where evidence is visible, disputable, and useful—where humans steer and data is the headlight, not the driver. That shift doesn’t start with a platform; it starts with literacy, and it grows when more people can do a little analysis for themselves.

Enabling a #CitizenData program requires not just developing an understanding of operational organizations becoming #DataProductOwners, but of raising the #DataLiteracy levels of your organization so that #CitizenDataAnalysts can make use of the data you're providing them. Building data literacy…

Statistics are more than numbers, they’re people’s experiences.

This #WorldStatisticsDay, discover how citizen-generated data helps make #SDG16 — peace, justice & strong institutions — a lived reality.

Blog by UNDP's Alexandra Wilde & Mariana Neves👇
go.undp.org/i3D

#CitizenData

We are empowering policy through human-centered data.

Our recent workshop with national partners from Iraq brought together youth representatives, data experts, and @undp.org leaders to explore how #CitizenData can drive inclusive, evidence-based policymaking to achieve SDG 16 goals.

Our new paper: Leveraging #citizendata #citizenscience to improve #publicservices and measure progress toward #SDGs #SDG16 is published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@undp-gpcg.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @GhanaStatisticalService

How the UK could monetise ‘citizen data’ and turn it into a national asset
#UK #AI #UKAI #Data #CitizenData #DataSovereignty #AIEthics #DigitalAssets #PublicData #AIFuture #NDL #SovereignDataFund #TechPolicy #DataGovernance #AIForGood #Government
the-14.com/how-the-uk-c...

Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived

Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis: a research
study using #citizendata finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived

#Ecology #Conservation #OpenScience

📢 We are glad to support the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Collaborative on Citizen Data in:

Co-creating the Future: Citizen Data & Participation in Kyrgyz Republic’s 2025 Voluntary National Review.

#CitizenData #CopenhagenFramework #DataPartnerships #SDGMonitoring

Unauthorized Access to actionable #CITIZENDATA
Arrest #trElump
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“Just Say No” to #Nazis #gop
TO The tЯ☭mpublican Traitors supporting Traitor tЯ☭mp & P☭tin! Remove THEM ALL!
#DefeatRussia
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Potholes, litter and endless roadworks? There’s an app fo... Technology trialled in England could connect citizens wit...

Potholes, litter and endless roadworks? There’s an app for that: http://on.ft.com/1ZUcuGo @Changify #citizendata #smartcities

Freedom of Information and Laquan McDonald - Chi Hack Night The story of how the Laquan McDonald video got released t...

Required viewing for every history/government student in HS. chihacknight.org/blog/2016/01/19/freedom-... #CitizenData #chihacknight @muckrakery