FAO at the 5th United Nations World Data Forum
Medellín (Colombia), Hybrid Event, 12/11/2024 - 15/11/2024
Following the outcome of the Summit of the Future, the fifth UN World Data Forum opened in Medellín (Colombia), to accelerate progress on sustainable development by leveraging the transformative power of data. More than 3 000 data experts, leaders, entrepreneurs, youth, academics, representatives from governments and civil society from over 120 countries gathered from 12 to 15 November to promote tangible solutions; covering topics including youth, gender, climate and environment, digitalisation and modernization, capacity development, data literacy and data science including AI.
The Forum explored four thematic areas:
- Innovation for better and more inclusive data
- Maximizing the use and value of data for better decision-making
- Building trust, protection and ethics in data
- Effective partnerships for better data and a more equitable data ecosystem
FAO's participation at the World Data Forum
"Leveraging Multistakeholder Data-Driven Efforts for Ending Hunger: The Food System Countdown Initiative (TA4.8)" | Wednesday, 13 November 2024 (11:15 am to 12:15 pm COT).
Transforming food systems requires regularly updated information about their status to guide interventions and to track their impacts and progress. Commonly agreed upon indicators can aid decision makers in the design, monitoring and evaluation of public policies.
To be trusted and taken up by those decision makers requires that the indicators are carefully selected to be relevant, of the highest quality, interpretable, and useful to meet real stakeholder needs. The session showcased how a multistakeholder process was used to reach consensus on a set of indicators to monitor food systems, introducing the work of the Food Systems Countdown to 2030 Initiative (FSCI).
More details in the Forum programme, available here.
Speakers
Benjamin Rothen
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO)José Rosero Moncayo
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)Stella Nordhagen
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)Hernán Muñoz
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
"The future role of the UN Statistical Commission" (TA3.6) | Wednesday, 13 November 2024 (14:15 am to 15:15 pm COT).
Over the years, several resolutions around the roles and functions of the Commission have been adopted which define and strengthen the role of the Statistical Commission. The implementation of data governance strategies differs across domains and is dependent on national practices. It is essential for the global statistical community as the data space evolves in a dynamic fashion to discuss different ways of handling data governance. The aim the session was to build a common understanding of data governance and to address how data governance is approached in the national statistical systems.
Speakers
- Eric Mayoraz Embassy of Switzerland
- Silvia Montoya
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Institute for Statistics
- José Rosero Moncayo Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Miosotis Rivas Peña Oficina Nacional de Estadistica (ONE-Republica Dominicana)
Stefan Schweinfest United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD-DESA)
- Georges-Simon Ulrich
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO)
About the UN World Data Forum
The United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) serves to highlight the role and value of data in supporting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Forum in 2024 is hosted by the Government of Colombia, represented by the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE-Colombia). The programme is prepared by UNWDF Programme Committee (UNWDF PC), under the strategic leadership and guidance of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG-PCCB) and the United Nations Statistical Commission. Secretariat support for all these bodies is provided by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).