Overview
A series of online webinars targetting National Statistical Offices in Africa and beyond. The focus is on using mobile data to fill information gaps for decision-making to inform COVID-19 response and recovery efforts on the continent.
Target audience: National Statistical Offices in Africa
Number of sessions: 3 modules of 10 total sessions (of 1.5 hours duration)
Date: 17-28 August (everyday)
Time: 6:00-7:30pm (EAT)
Platform: Zoom
The COVID-19 crisis represents a unique moment in history, when there has never been greater unity of purpose across stakeholders, greater need for new ways of working, and greater opportunity to advance collective action on the Sustainable Development Goals and our development agenda.
UN Global Pulse invites officers from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in Africa to join a 10 session webinar series focused on the use of mobile data to inform the current COVID-19 pandemic with regard to immediate response, its socio-economic effects, and efforts to build back better.
This capacity building package focuses on how mobile phone data can fill information gaps for decision making during this COVID19 response and also during the recovery phase. The capacity building package draws facilitators from private sector, academia, development and humanitarian partners. The sessions will be interactive to allow knowledge and experience exchange to feed into the current and future responses to pandemics. In addition, they will also encourage adoption and responsible use of mobile phone data for the acceleration of the achievement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Examples of the COVID-19 use-cases from around the world will be highlighted and discussed. Issues of data privacy and ethics will be covered throughout the sessions as well as options for data sharing frameworks
This capacity building package draws facilitators from private sector, academia, development and humanitarian partners. The sessions will be interactive to allow knowledge and experience exchange to feed into the current and future responses to pandemics. They will encourage adoption and responsible use of mobile phone data to accelerate achievement of the SDGs.
