As the sustainable development agenda comes to the fore, stakeholders everywhere are gearing up for a data revolution that could be a defining catalyst for success post-2015.
The role of data and the need for better data collection systems in developing countries was a key topic of conversation at this week’s International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and will be a continuing theme as the United Nations finalizes the sustainable development goals in New York this September.
“Increased availability and more effective use of data to drive sustainable development really has the potential to be one of the game changing innovations of the next 15 years of this particular agenda,” Tony Pipa, U.S. special coordinator for the post-2015 development agenda, told Devex in the lead-up to #FFD3.