There is a growing demand for more and better real-time information to make evidence-based decisions. This compels us to reflect on how official statistics are produced and, more importantly, on the range of information sources available in a world generating an immense and growing volume of data enabled by new technologies.
These new data sets go beyond traditional data ecosystems and call for innovation in processes, mechanisms, and tools to generate knowledge from a chaotic ocean of unstructured data, which in many cases exceeds the capabilities of current official statistical information s…
Existe una creciente demanda de más y mejor información en tiempo real para tomar decisiones basadas en evidencia, lo que obliga a reflexionar sobre la forma en la que se producen las estadísticas oficiales y principalmente sobre el conjunto de fuentes de información disponibles en un mundo que produce un ingente y creciente volumen de datos facilitados por las nuevas tecnologías.
Estos nuevos conjuntos de información extrapolan los ecosistemas de datos tradicionales y apelan a la innovación de procesos, mecanismos y herramientas para generar conocimiento a partir de un caótico océano de datos…
Estudio sostiene que, por cada 100 hombres en situación de pobreza, 130 mujeres enfrentan esta condición en Chile, revelando la persistente feminización de la pobreza y la urgencia de acelerar los esfuerzos hacia la igualdad.…
For small island developing States (SIDS), sustainable development is a delicate balance of pursuing economic growth, social development and environmental stewardship in the context of economic volatility, social challenges, climate change threats and global uncertainties while striving to build resilience. Recognized as a special case for development since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, SIDS remain highly vulnerable to external shocks due to their small economies, limited connectivity and reliance on external markets. Over the years, global frameworks such …
The Latin American and Caribbean countries have made progress towards mainstreaming the gender perspective in official statistical production, in line with the agreements adopted in the Regional Gender Agenda. At the thirteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in 2016, the governments of the region agreed to “transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” in pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework …