Shreeja Sen took part in a workshop organized by NITI Aayog and Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research titled, ‘Harnessing Data for Development to Accelerate Progress on Sustainable Development Goals’ on 3 November 2023 in New Delhi.
The workshop uncovered a wide range of topics that are relevant to India when it comes to harnessing Data for Development (D4D) to accelerate work towards meeting the SDGs. Several important themes emerged including, but not limited to, who is harnessing the data, whose development matters in designing D4D interventions, who does and is capable of interpreting the data today, why India must lead the way to help the world build balanced public data systems, why digital data systems need not be mere recasting of legacy paper-based systems, emergent data frameworks, challenges with data quality, challenges with under and over reliance on data, promise and limitations of AI/ML tools, and how new technologies and systems are changing all of the above.
Know more about the workshop here.