United Nations Regional Workshop on Data
Dissemination and Communication
THE 21ST CENTURY DATA DISSEMINATION
PARADIGM – AN AFRICAN PARADOX;
THE CASE OF UGANDA.
9TH SEPTEMBER 2013
Godfrey G. Nabongo – Uganda Bureau of Statistics
CONTENTS
Introduction
Data Dissemination
The Dissemination paradigm
The Emerging trends
The Operating Environment
African Dilemma
Uganda’s Case
Challenges – the paradox
Recommendations
Conclusion
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INTRODUCTION
UBOS is a semi- Autonomous Agency of government
whose mandate is the Production, Coordination and
Dissemination of socio-economic statistics; and is
responsible for Coordinating, Monitoring and Supervising
the NSS.
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DATA DISSEMINATION
It has to do with:
• spreading,
• scattering,
• circulation,
• dispersion,
• diffusing,
• rolling-out,
• storage and
• transfer of data.
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DATA DISSEMINATION PARADIGM
• identification of user and customer groups
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Central Government
Local Governments
NGOs, Private Sector and Civil Society
Educational institutions and public libraries
Research institutions
The General public
Media
• Establishment of Databases
• Development of dissemination systems
• Development of metadata
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EMERGING TRENDS
• Different service concepts for different user
groups
• Better services in line with the service concepts
• Increased use of visualisation and GIS
• Customisation of the data
• Making
data
access
systems
easy,
understandable and user friendly
• Marketing the data and related services & how
to get them - efficiently and systematically
• Necessity for metadata and data production
methodology
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DATA OPERATING TECHNOLOGICAL
ENVIRONMENT
Fast changing and high level IT options
Social Media
Mobile Devices
New Information Access Culture
All information, any place
Information explosion – Grey data
Digital populations
All generations (builders, baby boomers, X, Y)
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THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA DILEMMA
Legal environment - Weak, obscure and/or missing
Information policy, IT policy
Technological imbalances/ Apparent digital divide
Low computer penetration – social surfing/ email
High mobile phone penetration – basically text and voice
Cultural impediments and social diversity
Poor reading/research culture
Low statistical literacy/ numeric averse
Relatively low education levels
Multiple Ethnicity/ multitude of languages
Chronic dependency on finished products
Survey/census reports not data (spoon feeding)
Weak economic base
Low prioritisation of investment in data infrastructure & Initiatives
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UGANDA’S CASE
Ugandainfo
Data & indicators from:
Censuses, Surveys and routine administrative sources on:
Agriculture, Health, Education, Energy, Water, Housing,
Gender, Revenue, Finance, Immigration etc
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Other information – Governance, UBOS products: Reports,
Indicators, etc
Country STAT
Data on Food and Agriculture
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UGANDA’s CASE Contd
• Press Releases for Regular Indicators
• Dissemination Workshops for Survey releases
• Distribution of hard copy publications, CDs and email
(mailing list)
• Enhancing the LRC (under Communication and PR)
capacity to handle data dissemination
• Partnerships with Libraries/Resource Centres
• Database dissemination partnerships (eg IPMUS,
Google)
• UNSD-DFID Data compilation & Dissemination project (to
improve dissemination of development indicators through a central point
with corresponding metadata)
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UGANDA CASE Contd
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Achievements
Constituted a functional MDG sub committee.
Updated MDG database and identified missing
indicators.
Developed an MDG data development Strategy.
Enhanced capacity of MDG focal points in generating
metadata, production and management of MDG
database.
Matched all MDG indicators with relevant data sources
to address their sustainability.
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UGANDA CASE Contd
Lessons
• Effectiveness of developing and sustaining the MDG
database depends on coordination, cooperation and
collaboration of key players.
• SDMX exchange must be supported by a reasonable internet
connectivity.
• Efforts underway to operationalise the National Statistical
Data Bank concept to address the data quality, central data
repository and exchange in the NSS.
• Support from the top leadership of the NSO is key.
• The incentive for the dissemination platform is key for
continuous buy in of the respective MDAs.
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CHALLENGES
• Many dissemination systems on offer BUT not
promoted outside NSOs
• Data dissemination systems often not indigenous –
short lived, face support challenges
• Inadequate metadata
• Few local database users – Often remote/ no
feedback
• Increasing information requests as opposed to data
requests
• Challenges of Pricing data and related services
• Alternative Data sources on the internet (? Credible)
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THE PARADOX
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More effort be put into data dissemination systems
The shift to paperless dissemination
Multiple data dissemination tools
Difference in key target audiences viz their abilities
Less direct local access to data
Weak/poor data access and management
infrastructure
Low user capacity to access and manage data into
desired forms
• Increasing information demand / user friendly formats
Translations
Visualisations
Spartial analysis
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RECOMMENDATIONS
• More work to be done in disseminating and
reaching the local stakeholders effectively
• Increased communication effort required
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THANK YOU!
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