1. Partner Implications from Seminar: New Approaches to Capacity Development
Break-out Group:
Role of Users

2. Who are data users?
Traditional users: policy makers, businesses, academics, journalists, …
User turned producers (academics, data scientists)
Producers turned users (data flow from ministry -> NSO -> AFRISTAT> UNSD)

3. Identified Challenges
Supply-side challenges
How data is accessible (format, cost, …)
Public trust/ quality of data
Relevance
Demand-side challenges
Ability to understand and use data (literacy)
Business case for use of data (data for what?)
Overarching challenges
Data security and privacy

4. Proposed Strategies/ Implementation methods
Supply-side strategies
Open data (investment in open systems to reap benefits)
Customised dissemination (formats e.g. media, messages, …) for diverse user groups
Demand-side strategies
Build statistical literacy (with targeted interventions)

5. Creating a virtuous cycle