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The data revolution: finding the missing millions

An Overseas Development Institute (ODI) research report

On Thursday 21 May, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) hosted a panel discussion about their recent Development Progress project’s research report The data revolution: finding the missing millions. The discussion was chaired by James Ball, Special Projects Editor at The Guardian and the panelists included Elizabeth Stuart, ODI research fellow and lead author of the report, Rufus Pollock, President and Co-founder of Open Knowledge, Pali Lehohla, Statistician General of South Africa, and Francesco D’Orazio, VP Product of Pulsar.

I spoke with Stuart before the discussion about the key findings of the report, what actions are necessary to ‘find’ the missing millions, and why developed countries should be funding projects largely concerned with the developing world.

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