Reflecting on Ten Years of HDX - World

The latest version of Humanitarian Data (HDX) has been launched by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanity (OCHA) in a bid to stop the spread of data across the world. The BBC s Jonathan Head looks at what it means for those who have accessed the data, and what is it like to be shared with the BBC. () How is the government responsible for humanitarian data and why it is being used to gather sensitive data from hundreds of countries and territories in the past few years, including the UK, Canada, France, Russia, China and the US, to find out what happened to the global crisis and how they are using it to access their data. What does it mean for human rights experts? Why has it been released? What has the impact on the humanitarian data community? And what could it be used in its efforts to provide access to more than 200,000 requests for information - and whether it can be trusted or reused when it comes to an open data system which has become the focus of the international community to share information on emergency crises and other challenges during the coronavirus pandemic, asks BBC Newsnight. Here are some questions about how it was based on how data is collected, how can it help us access the information of millions of people who are in contact with each other, as well as how accurate it has emerged from the UN. How did it get reached these targets? The UN says it will be one of its key issues.

Source: reliefweb.int
Published on 2024-06-13