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1st ODI Virtual Meetup on Data Storytelling and Literacy during the Pandemic
SAVE THE DATE: You are invited to join the 1st ODI Virtual Meetup on Data Storytelling and Literacy during the Pandemic!The meetup will be happening on June 14th, 2021 from 10 am-12 pm (GMT+7).Click here to register: https://bit.ly/34YeIzwThis meetup focuses on discussing what works, what ...
ODI
Result Announcement: ODV’s Data-driven Storytelling Contest – Covid-19 Pandemic
In February – March 2021, Open Development Vietnam (ODV), in collaboration with SPIDER Center, organized the Data-driven Storytelling Contest, centering around the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest aimed to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially indigenous people, to demonstrate the value of data through compelling visual ...
World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives
Data are everywhere. But what is the data revolution doing for the 700 million people who live in extreme poverty? When data are turned into valuable information, they have the potential to improve lives, transform economies, and help end poverty. Now more than ever, the ...
World Bank
Data-driven Storytelling Contest - Deadline extension
About the ContestThe purpose of this contest is to encourage professionals, researchers, and students, especially those who identify as Indigenous Peoples, to demonstrate the value of data through effective visual data storytelling, and to contribute to the open data community by increasing the accessibility of ...
Phase 2 - The Covid-19 Response community fund starts to receive grant applications
Are you a non-profit organization/ group1 operating in southern locations from Dak Lak to Ca Mau?Is the Covid-19 pandemic negatively impacting on the operation of your organization/ group?Is your organization/ group in need of funding to support the disadvantaged groups who are in difficulty due ...
A reporting guide during COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, journalists around the world have played an extremely important role in providing the public with information about the pandemic and anti-epidemic efforts by governments.To help operational journalists ...
MDI
Nominations Open: Journalism for an Equitable Asia Award 2020-21 - Theme: Inequality crisis and the pandemic
Asia, just like the rest of the world, is grappling with COVID-19. Despite tremendous economic growth and advances in healthcare, technology, and elsewhere during the preceding decades, we are struggling to overcome the pandemic and the resultant economic and social fallouts. Journalism for an Equitable Asia ...
Oxfam VietnamSDG
Monitoring households and firms in Vietnam during COVID-19
In order to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on Vietnamese firms, the World Bank designed a Business Pulse Survey (BPS) to assess the various channels of impact of the pandemic on firms, their adjustment strategies, and public policy responses. The firm surveys are being collected ...
World Bank
Report: Impacts of COVID-19 on some ethnic communities in Vietnam: Research on local communities and urban immigrants
The main purpose of the study is to synthesize issues caused by the pandemic and its effects on ethnic minority communities during social distancing periods. In addition, the study explores how ethnic minority communities respond to those challenges, as well as their needs for further ...
ISEE
Confronting COVID-19 second waves: How “big data for good” can inform policy in Vietnam
Initially undertaking full-fledged national lockdowns, governments are increasingly seeking more selective and localized public health interventions. Notable amongst these countries are Australia (Melbourne), Spain (Cataluña), and China (Beijing) with their recent focus on highly targeted interventions. Can such an approach be effective in controlling the ...