DATASHIFT

DataShift is an initiative of CIVICUS in collaboration with numerous partners to build the capacity and confidence of civil society organisations to produce and use 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.

DataShift with its partners are helping filling gaps and adding context for SDG indicators, particularly SDG 16.7.2: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.  From January – June 2019, the initiative will be collecting quantitative and qualitative data on SDG indicator 16.7.2:  Proportion of the population who believe decision-making is inclusive and responsive, by sex, age, disability and population group. The data will be used to inform the dialogues occurring around the July 2019 High-Level Political Forum Theme ‘Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality’. If you would like to be part of the SDG16.7.2 data process, please e-mail DataShift@CIVICUS.org.

It also collaborates with other actors to explore and promote the use of citizen-generated data, via a specific Task Team of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 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.

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).