19 June 2020

June 22, 2020 at 14:00-17:00 the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics with the support of the World Bank will be organized “Webinar on building the capacity of the open data Working group”.

By publishing data, governments around the world are helping to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, namely mitigating and halting the spread of the pandemic. During the webinar, a review will be presented on solutions based on open data to combat the global pandemic and actions taken in Uzbekistan. The presentation will include examples of initiatives by states, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations in the areas of health, labor, business support, education, etc. and the importance of open data in decision-making during a global pandemic.

Experts from the World Bank, as well as representatives from various government agencies, the private sector and academia, will talk about open data and how data affects and creates economic value for governments. Experts will talk about the prospects of the government, the private sector, science and academia, as well as entrepreneurship in Uzbekistan.

After the discussion, participants will have the opportunity to participate in seminars on such topics as “Data Depersonalization” and “Metadata for open data”. Information will be provided on methods that can be used to anonymize data and on the use of metadata to simplify working with open data.

You can participate in the webinar at the following link:

https://worldbankgroup.webex.com/worldbankgroup/j.php?MTID=mcb014d9aea6b9dda27cbb17abd9ad31a

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