The African Development Bank (AfDB), as the premier developmental organization in the continent, supports its 54 regional member countries to reduce levels of poverty and boost economic and social progress. Reliable and timely data are vital not only for formulating the AfDB’s own strategies, and for monitoring the outcomes of its programs and projects, but also for all those who wish to ensure the continent’s future positive growth trajectory. This includes key policymakers in African countries, central banks and non-governmental organizations, subregional and regional organizations, UN agencies, multinational organizations, as well as external donors and investors.
AfDB’s Africa Information Highway selected as one of the most innovative data initiatives in the world
08/13/2015
The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) at the OECD has selected AfDB’s Africa Information Highway (AIH) as one of the most innovative initiatives around the world to enable and inform the data revolution and post-2015 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda. The announcement is a culmination of a project called “Informing a Data Revolution” ( IDR) which was launched by PARIS21 in 2014 to identify around the world the most innovative data initiatives to enable and inform the data revolution. Besides being an enabler to the data revolution, a selected initiative needed to meet the following criteria: provide the right data, to the right people, at the right time, in the right format. As one of the selected innovative initiatives, the Africa Information Highway has been added to the PARIS21 Innovations Inventory, a collection of innovative approaches in the field of development data that started in 2014 and is now open for public participation. Being featured in the inventory means that the selected initiative will enjoy free visibility among other innovators. It also provides a platform to meet other innovation seekers from private companies, national statistical offices, NGOs and international organizations. The inventory is a participatory tool which can be accessed at: http://innovation.paris21.org/
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