DATASHIFT
Building the capacity and confidence of civil society organisations to produce and use citizen-generated data
What is DataShift?
DataShift is an initiative that builds the capacity and confidence of civil society organisations to produce and use citizen‑generated data. It is an initiative of CIVICUS, in partnership with Wingu, The Open Institute and Restless Development. More>
What is Citizen-generated data?
Citizen-generated data is data that people or their organisations produce to directly monitor, demand or drive change on issues that affect them.
What is DataShift doing?
DataShift is supporting civil society organisations that produce and use citizen-generated data in our initial pilot locations: Argentina, Nepal, Kenya and Tanzania.
It is sharing experiences from this support to build capacity on citizen-generated data across the world, and is seeking to inform and influence global policy processes on the SDGs and the data revolution for sustainable development.
New Research
Statistical Perspectives on Citizen-Generated Data
DataShift seeks to foster and inform dialogue between civil society and governments about the practical ways citizen-generated data (CGD) can contribute to action on sustainable development, including the implementation and ‘follow-up and review’ of the global Sustainable Development Goals. This report delves into the opportunities and challenges involved in using CGD to support government-led efforts to catalyse and monitor progress on sustainable development. A series of interviews were conducted to investigate how public data producers and users perceive CGD. More DataShift Research >
DataShift CGD Visualisations
Ari Sahagún and the DataShift team have created an awesome series of three new network visualisations.
These tools map and analyse the countries and themes that citizen-generated data (CGD) initiatives are exploring globally. This is part of our work to see how CGD could be used to track the progress being made against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
