Libreville –Gabon16-20 November 2015

…Ruben MUHAYITETOData Portals Management Officer

NISR-Rwanda

Data Portal Management at

National Institute of Statistics of

Rwanda

NISR at a glance

Data dissemination architecture

Organizational structure&mandate

Available platforms

Data Portals Management Institutionalizing the datamanagement processes

Strategies, Innovations Team, Data Curation Team, Data Viz team, trainings, outreach and competitions

Updating and visibility levels

Data Portal Advocacy materials, Prognoz

competition,...

Scheme of the presentation

Challenges with Data Portal

wayforward

Practices of Updating

The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) was created in October 2005 as an independent institution out of the former Department of Statistics in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) and the National Service of Census.

Dissemination Architecture at NISR

TYPES OF DATA

MICRODATAMETADATAINDICATOR DATA GEODATA

Source of data

Surveys and Censuses produced by NISR

DHS

EICV

RPHC

3yrs

10 yrs

Seasonal Agri Survey 1yr

Exam

ples 3yrs

Data DisseminationDissemination

CharnelsINTERNETONE STOP CENTER

Disseminationmedia

PRINTDIGITAL

Data Dissemination condition

FREE ($)MACHINE READABLEFREE TO RE-USE

DevInfoDevinfo.statistics.gov.rw

PrognozIndicators.statistics.gov.rw

Internal NADA

Source of Data: Surveys and censuses conducted by NISR

SDMX Registry

Sdmx.statistics.gov.rw

Stat Alert

NADA (Public)Microdata.statistics.gov.rw

DIGITAL DATA DISSEMINATION

Websitestatistics.gov.rw/geodata

GeoData

Websitestatistics.gov.rw/publications

Microdata &Metadata

Indicators(Time-series)

Publications (PDFs &

Data in MS Excel)

- CountryData is a new data platform developped by UNSD to showcase national data for development indicators collected through SDMX registries.

- The data are compared to development indicators produced by international agencies. Any discrepancies are detected, analysed and categorized.

- Data in country data platform can be viewed as tables and charts and can be downloaded for further analysis.

Stat Alert (Pilot)

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Indicators Stat Alert

Data portal

Devinfo Devinfo.statistics.gov.rw

PrognozIndicators.statistics.gov.rw

Data Portal

Data shared through API too

Indicators

After the installation and a training to NISR staff, the Data Portal was launched in May 2013

Current management of Data Portal

- Management of the Data Portal is done by Statistical Methods, Research and Publications departments

- Under this unit the Data Portal Management Officer does the uploads and administers data dissemination platforms

- The Data Curation team was formed within this unit to ;- Ensures quality Data is disseminated - Ensure provides user feedback- Maintain quality data- Data Recovery and retrieval- Achieving

Institutionalizing processes

Innovations and Teams in place

@NISR

Institutionalization the processes Innovations Team Data Curation Team Data Visualization Team

NISR Innovations Lab

• NISR Innovations Team was constituted by DG in his office to constantly innovate at ideation and implémentation level.

• Responsibilities of NISR Team;• Improve accessibility of data to users• Prioritize user needs• Updating the Data Portals• Ensuring the Data Portal is always available to be accessed

…Working across the departments, this heterogeneous group will spend its time in finding and appying the solutions on key issues, and focus on data user-centric approach in data dissemination, communication and IT platforms. Says the DG in his memo.

Innovations Team

Motto: Future of Statistics, Force of Technology and Power of Design Thinking

NSDS2

NISR Innovation Strategy

Implementation of the strategy: what is done to improve data access and

data use through data portal

• The following have been trained so far;

• All Central and local Government statisticians• Planning Directors• Journalists• University lectureres and students

Training of university students on access, use and analysis of NISR data

Capacity building: Data and Portals available at NISR are good resources for

academic assignments

Training a University Lecturer is training a good trainer on data access and use for

academic research

More InnovationsReaching out students and lecturers to preach availability, accessibility and use of data though data portals available at NISR

Infographic competition to engage acacademic community to use NISR data though visualization

Data Vizualization Teamunder Innovations Team Control

Setted up an advisory body on data visualization: Drawn from public sphere (outside NISR), a group of multi-talented personnel active in data visualization domain to advise on matters related to data visualizations and infographics. Tapped into the pool of students who have participated in the previous infographics competitions.Involved the journalists earlier trained by NISR on data access through NISR data portals and data journalism. Organize regular workshops and trainings for NISR staff (including other stakeholders, on data vizualizationThe NISR DVT works with selected students to prepare visualizations on an ongoing basis.The students receive recognition in return of their work, which is helpful for them to win gain full employment later.Also, students and journalists are trained on a regular basis – binding the appetite and capacity around the skill set.

Challenges

Challenges

Data Portal Visibility

No data portal advocacy materials No logo

Capacity building

Need for advanced training to NISR on data portal administration Reach out more users; Need for fund

Updating

Updating data portal (PROGNOZ) and DevInfo separately takes time while they are all about time-series indicators ( the same data). Need for synchronizing DevInfo with prognoz

Wayforward

• AfDB to work with IMF to customize the tool to be compliant with SDMX to be able to exchange economic data to IMF easily.

• Customize the data portal to have the same functionalities with devinfo for easy updating.

Updating Visibility Suggestion

• Work with the Bank and Prognoz to produce advocacy materials (leaflets, pull up banners, T-shirts, caps, mouse pads, posters, calendars, to be distributed for wider awareness

• Be able to independently update the database after receiving the training by the AfDB

…Ruben MUHAYITETO

Data Portals Management OfficerNational Institute of Statistics of Rwanda

Email: ruben.muhayiteto@statistics.gov.rwTel: (+250) 788616735

@lubenmu

Thank you!