 Okay, I'm starting now. Okay, go ahead. Okay, good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, depending on where you are and welcome to this webinar on building open and transparent land information systems through Global Alliance. This webinar is co-hosted by the Land Porter Foundation, the Global Disability Barometer, the Open Data Charter, and the Open Government Partnership. And it's organized within the framework of the OGP Working Week, which is running from 16 to 20 of many. As you may know, the Open Government Partnership is an organization working with governments to transform how they work to serve their citizens. So we thought that this was a nice opportunity to celebrate the work that the Land Porter Foundation, the Global Data Barometer and the Open Data Charter have done over the past few years. And working together, the intersection between open data and land governance, with a goal, with the objective of making land data more accessible and open. So this is one of the main objectives of this webinar. Another important objective is we want to take this opportunity to launch the Global Data Barometer land module, which is the culmination again of almost two and a half years of collaboration and mutually reinforcing work with the Global Data Barometer team. Thank you for that. You may know that the land, the Global Data Barometer, was launched last week on May 19. And the module is a core part of the barometer. Nicholas will tell us a little bit more about that. So here from Tommy on how the Land Porter Foundation has been scaling up land, state-of-land information research approach to assess country-level information ecosystems and also the nexus with the Open Up Guide on Land Governance, a practical tool that helps governments to collect and release land data. And it is an opportunity to explore and discuss how all these initiatives and tools fit with each other and reinforce each other and also contribute to a more open and transparent land information ecosystem that supports land governance. So a few additional logistical notes about the webinar before we start. First of all, the webinar is organized as a dynamic conversation with the panelists with a few random round of questions. The audience also has the opportunity to pose questions to the panelists. You can use the Q&A button, please, not the chat. For your questions, we will address all of them during the last part of the webinar. The webinar is live streamed, so in multiple platforms, and so you will receive the video recording in the next days. Please, we also, live tweeting is also occurring, so please use the following hashtags, open up week and land module if you want to contribute to your tweets. And very importantly, the webinar will have French, Spanish and Portuguese interpretation. Please use the interpretation icon at the bottom of your screen to access your language channel. If you want to follow the English channel, please enter the English channel. Okay, and now to our panelists. We have an incredible set of experts here today with us. Let me introduce them. Jessica Hickel is a research officer at the Open Government Partnership, where she contributes to analysis on a variety of policy topics including access to justice institutions, public accountability and service delivery. She is interested in understanding when and how citizens hold governments actors to account. And she also published research on patterns of rights litigations in Tanzania. Welcome, Jessica. Nicholas Grossman is the Research and Data Lead at the Global Data Barometer. He is the lead on the collaboration between the Land Porter Foundation and the Global Data Barometer land to produce the land module. He's a sociologist and a journalist specializing in open data and GIS. Welcome Nicholas. He has a long barrier. He works for the Land Porter Foundation and is our land and data information management specialist. He's also a specialist in land governance and administration and has a background in land surveying and information systems design. He has more than 20 years of experience. He is an anti-CARFI executive director at the Open Data Charter. She leads the ODC team and engaging with experts from governments, civil society organizations, academics and the private sectors. So welcome to all of you and thank you for being here. Thank you also for the audience. So we are quite the most good today. We want to hear a little bit more from you. So before we start, please take a few seconds to respond to two questions. So the first poll is which region are you based? Please take a few seconds and response to the poll. We will know where you are connecting from. Just one second. And they will share the poll so you will see the question in your screen. Please click. Are you connecting from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe? Why? Wow, wow. The audience is really diverse. We have the majority of people connecting from Africa, a big group from Europe and Central Asia, but also a good representation from North, South and Central America and Asia. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's really a big diverse group. Can you take a few seconds to respond to the second poll, please? What sector do you represent? What is your affiliation? Are you a government representative or representative of civil society, private sector, international organization, or work for university research center? Okay. Good. Good. Great number of academics, 30% also from civil society, big group, but private sector representation is also very hard. Thank you so much. Thank you. It was really nice to hear from you. And now let's go into the discussions. Really diverse audience. Thank you for connecting. Thank you for being with us today. So let's start the discussion. My first question goes to Nicholas. Well, the Global Data Barometer was launched last week, Nicholas, and we know that the Global Data Barometer represents a really important benchmark that provides insight into government data capability, availability, use across more than 100 countries. It's really important tool to measure access to data. It was supported by the International Development Research Center, the United Nations Population Fund, and numerous organizations, regional and thematic partners that supported the development of the barometer, including Transparency International and also the government, Open Government Partnership. Can you tell us a little bit about the barometer and the lunch and why the land model in particular is important for your work? And also, if you can share a little bit about the initial results that you got from the Global Data Barometer land model. Over to you, Nicholas. Okay, thank you, Laura, for the introduction. Hello, everyone. Very happy to be here. Welcome all of you. It's very nice to see people joining from all around the world. I'm Nicholas Grossman as Laura introduced. I'm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I've been working along with the Land Portal Foundation, developing the land model and leading the research and data sections of the Global Data Barometer. Talking about the recent launch of the Global Data Barometer, I have to say that we are really excited to have all this information out there. We have been working almost two years in developing the methodology, carrying on the data collection phase, the data analysis. And now that all the data and information is out there, we feel that it's a new beginning because we can share with everyone what we have collected along with more than 100 researchers around the world in 100 and 900. And everything, every result, every evidence is out there to be analyzed by everyone. And we expect to have new findings and feedback because for all the study, we have more than 60,000 data points that are very useful to perform statistical analysis, but also to explore all the evidence and the qualitative information that we have, and it's open in our website in GlobalDataBarometer.org. You have the summarized results, and also we have an open data section where you can download everything that we have collected and analyzed in these previous months. And okay, there you will find a lot of more information on the context and the methodology of this survey that as Laura has mentioned, has the objective of tracking data governance, data bilability, data capabilities, and data use and impact all around the world. I'm going more precisely to the land model, and how is this important, having read where a lot of people of the audience come from working with land issues. I think that we already know how important is land data to tackle a very wide variety of urgent issues. And, you know, like sustainable development, accountability, economic growth, migrations, and so on. So the main objective of the GlobalDataBarometer is to track data for public good, and if we have that into consideration, land data could not be out of this survey. And also, the GlobalDataBarometer is the successor of the OpenDataBarometer, and in the OpenDataBarometer there was an indicator to track the availability of land ownership data sets. And, you know, during a lot of years, this was one of the worst performing indicators that was one of the most hard to find data on land ownership, comparing with different other data sets. So, along with another methodological update from the OpenDataBarometer to the GlobalDataBarometer, methodological and conceptual, it was include the operation of these thematic models. So, and we took this opportunity to build a land model to have thematic lenses to analyze land data. And here is where the collaboration with the land portal is very important because we together start building the framework and to explore which topics could be covered. And, well, to summarize this work because I know we don't have a lot of time. First, going to the indicators that we carry on. Firstly, we rethought the indicator that looked for land ownership data and made it a land tenure indicator to cover different land rights and different light tenure systems. Then it was added a new indicator that was tracking land use data, not only land tenure, but land use data open. And also we had an indicator to track the uses of land data to address gender and inclusion issues to have a lot of information on how this data can be used for public good. And the last minute or seconds of my intervention I would like to share some main findings relating the land models. This is hard to summarize because there are a lot of variables inside the indicators and a lot of analysis that can be done from the data gathered by the GlobalDataBarometer. But just to mention the main ones, you know, the land tenure data is still one of the dataset models that is very hard to find all around the world and it performs worse than the land use data. Land use data, yes, was one that was more easy to find released by the government. I think 77 national researchers found some land use data in their countries and only 57 find some land tenure data. But besides the quantity, the quality of land use was much higher, for example, among the land use dataset, 70 out of 77 were free of charge and 44 were machine readable. And while those on land tenure only 30 were free of charge, you know, so that means that a lot of land tenure information has to be paid in the world and only 21 were machine readable. So this is just a few information that you can find from the CDB data. So we encourage and invite you to explore all the results and evidence in the GlobalDataBarometer.org website. Thank you, Nicolas. Thank you for your preliminary results. We know that this is the first edition of the GlobalDataBarometer, so new updates will come in the future. Well, of course, working in the land sector for so many years, we are not surprised about these results. We know how difficult it is to find data related to land tenure, an ownership in particular, open and accessible to citizens. And the importance of making this data open for public good. The new stress is a very important point there. And that's why we thought that building an alliance, you know, a coalition of organizations that join efforts and reinforce each other to really make this data more accessible and open was so important. So, so we look forward to hearing a little bit more about the future development. But let me now shift to Tommy to tell us a little bit more about the land portal foundation state of land information research approach, which is very much connected and blend to the GlobalDataBarometer land model. So, Tommy, what is the relationship between the GlobalDataBarometer land model and the land portal foundation solid methodology? Can you tell us a little bit more about this research methodology, and what it is, the objective, what it hopes to accomplish, and what is the nexus and how they reinforce each other. Over to you, Tommy. Thank you, Laura. I think it bears repeating that the increasing sort of digitization of information, the use of the internet and the growing demand for data transparency has contributed to this kind of exponential expansion of land information ecosystems. While the reality is that for land data in many parts of the world, it is still pretty much fragmented, inaccessible, poorly managed and generally unusable. The solely seeks to address and identify these public sources of land data at the national level at country level and provide an overview of those sources for land data and information related activities with a focus on government generated data and the government organizations who are primarily responsible for the functions of land administration. So it describes the current state of the art in a particular country context with regards to land data, and we also seek to outline the framework for data governance and describe the data resources across data categories that we've derived from from the modern land administration theory, and these include land tenure use development and land value, as well as other climate change data. And for us, the solely is intended as a tool that can be used by researchers by my land practitioners and government agencies for any work that requires access to data and information. Also at the land portal, we like to use this tool to conduct a thorough open data compliance assessment, which may assist in strengthening the capacity and identify information providers who would like to make the information more discoverable on the web. In terms of the relationship between the GDP land module and the land portal foundation, the methodology is been designed to be mutually reinforcing. So as Nikola said, during the development of the module, we work to refine the land module so that it seeks to understand the state of data on land around the world and contribute to the overall global data assessment of data for the public good. While the solely provides a detailed overview of the state of the open and data at the country level, the land module can be seen as providing an overview of this land data at a global level. While there's a wide range of sub themes and data categories that might be covered, Nikolas already mentioned that the focus was specifically on land tenure and land use, which is also included as key data categories in the land administration and in the solely methodology so that we have this alignment. And the additional element, which is also in the solely focuses here more specifically on how the data category used to support gender and inclusivity, whereas in the solely we do more broadly generally at equity aspects. So the focus supports, I think, the open data parameter measures on land registers that has been extended into tenure, but maintains this kind of consistency with the solely data categories. And the data sets in the land module captured different aspects of availability and use, which in the solely we do the open data assessment, which provides a greater level of detail. So the solely in the land module both seek to describe the current status of land data information in various degrees of detail, they provide a baseline for the implementation of open data initiatives and I think this is where the open up guide becomes a really important resource, because the open up guide can work to to identify and work towards those countries and those data sets and organizations that might be right for opening up, and it provides us a pathway for not only assessing the state of openness, but a pathway to make data more open. I think we realized that, while it's critical to understand the current situation with regards to land data, it was not enough to leave it there, and they only see in the land portal there for partner to develop the open up guide for land governments to take that to the next level. Great. Thank you for introducing the state of land information research methodology, Tommy, and how it links with the global data barometer land module where the data barometer is a global study that shows the comparative position of different countries that the solely is more a national level tool that supports multi-stakeholder action to improve land governments data systems. And we know very well that no, it's the first person to really improve. What is not measured cannot be addressed. So really the global data barometer and the solid research methodology, they both have the focus on measuring what is the state of art of land data, and where are the challenges, the gap, what can we do to address it. And we work very hard to align the strategies of both organizations because we know that together we can accomplish much, much more. And now let me go to the third tool because here there was a lot of work also to align methodologies and strategies and to support the country level action and in particular to support the main stewards, the data stewards that are the government. Tommy has already briefly introduced the open up guide. So this lead me to Nati and give the floor to her for her to explain what is the open up guide overall focus. Why did you choose to work with the Landport Foundation on specifically on an open up guide on land governments? So who are you targeting and why? Over to you, Nati. Thank you, Laura, and thanks everybody who joined from all around the world. More than happy to be here, happy open government week to everybody. Let me take a step back and explain a little bit what the ODC, what the open data charter is and how we developed the methodology for open up guides and then drill down in why we collaborated in this specific tool. So the open data charter is a global initiative that works both with government and civil society organizations to promote and help design and implement open data policies with a purpose. So when open data policies first started, the idea behind the design and implementation of open data policies were kind of published and they will come. So governments started to put online open data portals and publishing any type of data set that they could just for the sake of it, like having open data was the important thing. And what we found after a couple of years of that idea was that data was not being used because it didn't serve a specific purpose. Open data needed to be seen as a means towards another end and that's when the open data charter started promoting the publishing with a purpose idea. So understanding the public problem behind the design of the open data policy. So what are we trying to tackle with open data being a means towards that creating that solution participate participatory. So that shift actually helped starting to promote thematic open data policies. So in order to make bigger impacts in order to create bigger communities because we could bring in thematic experts that didn't see themselves as open data folks or organizations but they could definitely add value to the thematic conversation. From that perspective of publishing with a purpose the open data charter starting developing what it's now known as the open up guides, which are thematic tools practical tools that actually address high value data sets in each of the themes that they exist. So as of now we have four open up guides. The first one being on anti-corruption then we developed another one on agricultural data. We developed one on climate action and the fourth ones and last one for now is the one on land governance developed with the land portal. Whenever we develop these types of tool we always collaborate with thematic experts and we bring in kind of our knowledge of governmental open data policies and of course share the knowledge of the thematic knowledge that these other partners bring in. And in this case we approached the land portal and started this conversation because we knew this was a theme that the broader open data and open government community was talking about. And these practical tools have already proven to be sound in order to develop participatory strategies and manage expectations because everybody knows what types of data we're talking about. So with that in mind that's how we started the conversation with land portal to create this tool. All the open up guides and this one also of course has in the back of their idea the knowledge that there's locked public value in the data that governments are not publishing. And whenever we promote and start publishing that data that public value can be unlocked and reused for the benefit of the citizens. So it's very important that we when we implement this open up guides we do it in a participatory way. It's not just government opening up data. It's also understanding the demand side the open data community that exists whenever we are wherever we are implementing. And as I said kind of the demand and the supply side. And I'm going to leave it there because I know I'm going to have another opportunity to drill down a little bit more in what the open up guide this specific open up guide means. Of course, of course, thank you. Thank you very much, Nati. We really appreciate the collaboration with the open data chart and the open up guide and thank you for stressing also the fact that opening up land data is really not enough. And data is not a mandate itself, but as a means for solving important land governance issues and also just to really rate and write that the data government is the main custodian of land data and government should serve their citizens so the data is a public good and information should be open because it is a public good. Thank you for that. And let me now turn to Jessica, final panelist who represents the open government policy. And wanted to ask what is the, can you tell us a little bit about the land related work of the open partnership. And can you tell us a little bit about it. The relationship between land data and political integrity which I know that is one of the module of the government is a barometer that you develop land transparency and openness. The floor is yours, Jessica. Great. Thank you so much, Lara and thank you to for inviting me to be here. I'm excited to talk with, with all of you. I'm really glad to be here to talk about the open up guide and the global data barometer as well because these are, these are really great tools and I think working using these tools and some of the tools we've developed are there a great package to use to implement OGP commitments. To highlight a little bit about what some of OGP's land commitments look like. We have, we have quite a number of commitments that focus on on land management and administration. Over 100. And in terms of what mechanisms these commitments are using the vast majority are on transparency. Over 75% of our land commitments focus on making information about land more transparent and quite a significant subset of those deal with open data specifically. So with the national level and the local level as well and I think I'll have. I'll talk a little bit more about our, our local program later on in the session. But to, to think about the topics that these land commitments are covering and kind of the ends that they're seeking to address. And I think we all know the, the importance of this land information has implications for, you know, economic development for human rights for environmental sustainability. But, but one and that I just really want to highlight today also is this point that you mentioned Laura about political integrity. And it's amazing that we're, we're just starting to think about a bit more in connecting our, our work on anti corruption to our work on land. And in the same way that, you know, corrupt political actors or other actors may use shell companies or other accounts to to kind of hold and hide assets. And this is the same thing happening with land, where without this information actors can can hold finances can hold wealth in land, and, and that's a big area where, where we see the this corruption and, and without data to track who is benefiting from the ownership of land. It's impossible to kind of to parse through that and, and to reduce the ability of wealthy actors to kind of to accumulate more and more. And so that's, that's one thing that we're thinking more about about the goal of opening land data for this specifically anti corruption purpose. And I think when we link the this land data also with data about the officials assets with beneficial ownership data. These become a really powerful tool for for tackling corruption as well in addition to, you know, to all these, these other benefits that we're talking about today. But I'll stop there for now, because I know we're going to be able to talk a lot more. Thank you. This was great Jessica thank you. Thank you for your contribution is really exciting to hear what a project is doing online data and so of course in your efforts to address existing data gaps we of course address the commitments, we are really looking forward to have a closer collaboration and see how the, how the other tools know that are being developed here can really support your work and where possible Thank you also for mentioning the link to transparency and the corruption accountability of course it's very important to open that I really contribute to corruption transparency of those not really the final As I said, is it to towards and not and then sell and opening up data is also useful for improving land administration function so we also need to look at data in that way know that the government itself needs more accessible and available data to carry their functions, the land administration functions. So, we see that there are several goals. Let's go to the second round of questions. Thank you for your contribution. Thank you. Nicholas won't go back to you now. I want to ask how the land module relate to other things in the global data. You want to refer again to the project integrity to other modules. Please. You want to elaborate more about the link. And whether there are some overlaps or signatures between different modules in the, in the global data barometer over to you Nicholas. Sure. Firstly, I would like to briefly describe a part of the structure of the global data barometer. And we have seven thematic models, along with two core models that assess data governance and capability at the country level but these seven thematic models, as we mentioned previously, are what we call the thematic lenses to analyze data landscape in a thematic field. Of the seven thematic models, the biggest one, the one with the greatest amount of indicator is political integrity, which along with the public finance model, the public procurement and the company information. We can say that they are focused on power, money and accountability. And then we have a two urgent global issues as our health and COVID and climate action. And we have the land model. And we have talked about the relationship that land has with all these topics. And I think that she has made a great conceptual connection between the land data and political integrity data and how this is very important to have it connected together. But apart from this conceptual connection that we know that are really important, we try to translate this, not only the interaction between the models on the focus on the CDB but also in some particulars variables to track these disconnections between topics. For example, in the indicator where we asked the researcher to find and to assess land tenure data sets, there is a sub question, for example, that asks if there is information on the legal person holding rights. So this is especially related to the company information model, but also with the sum of the political integrity indicators and related to climate action. We also in the land use indicator, we ask if the land use data available has information on protected areas, or also we see if there is information in the during the history during the time, so it is useful to track land use changes that is very important to explore emissions and also in the emissions indicator will have some questions that are related with land data. And specifically in the political integrity model and we have built an indicator to assess the interoperability of the political integrity data sets relating the between themselves but also the political integrity and their interoperability with another thematic indicators. For example, one of the questions is if the political integrity data and these data sets are, for example, public official assets, lobby data sets, political finance data sets, if this information is interoperable with land data, if there are common identifiers to make analysis crossing this information and to make these disconnections that we have sets we very important to tackle issues as corruption, for example, and hiding assets to convert this in practical examples of how this can be done if there are common identifiers is different data sets published by different agencies and managed by different agencies in a government can be interoperable and better use for the public good. Great contribution. Thank you, Nicholas. Thank you for highlighting the importance of identifying data patterns now and when you make it open, really open and available and accessible to people you open up my rear of research opportunities now and observing patterns across data you can easily discover new tendencies and trends and thank you for mentioning the land use data patterns that of course can help us understand the missions but I would also add investments and changing land use over the time. And thank you also for mentioning interpretable to that which is extremely important and this is one of the key goals of the open data community. Working towards making that interoperable so that assets for managed most by different organizations agencies can really become interoperable so they can be correlated. And can be working together with other data sets for realizing new research opportunities really important contribution thank you Nicholas and let me now go back to Tony and thank you for also will bring us more and to a more in depth. Understanding of the state of mind formation methodology and also how how it has evolved over time and how you came to the decision to align the research methodology with open guide research methodology. Thank you. Well, I think the relationship and the alignment between the solely methodology and the open up guide can best be described by seeing it as two interrelated resources that has three components. The first component is the scoping of the information landscape in the country. And this is the first step of the solely. The second step is to perform an open data compliance assessment based on the findings of that information landscape scoping study. And this is the second part of the solely. And the third part is to try and identify targeted interventions that are based on the open data assessment and come up with some recommendations for improvement in information management practices. And this is really the part where the open up guide that comes to play. In other words, assessing that status quo, and then asking the question. So how can we proceed forward. So the alignment in terms of this is that, you know, the land portal has been working on the solely methodology for a long time, and partnered with odc on developing the open up guide. And I think it was fairly organic to make sure that that these instruments and resources are related to one another and build on the foundation that the land portal that already put down there for describing the state of land information at national level. We have made some refinements from the earlier versions to put the focus on government data. And I've said previously that, you know, we don't want to burden government departments to collect data purely for the sake of contributing to externally driven indicators that they might sometimes be disconnected from, but to ask the question, what are the functions that government agencies perform based on their duties and service delivery paradigms and in performing land administration functions. And this responds to the modern land administration theory by by by in the market Williams and etc. And I have proposed that land administration is seen as the management of land and associated resources that actually respond to these global imperatives such as poverty reduction, a sustainable agriculture sustainable settlements, conflict management, and as mentioned, things like climate change. So the data that we need for the good governance of land must now include data on the core land administration functions of tenure use value and development. And I can add to that, two more categories that we've identified, which is actually data on the legal and policy framework for land governance, even though this tends to be mostly bibliographic data. The legal and policy information is a crucial source of information and data for land governance, and then also other land related data that that contributes to sort of land climate change discussions. So in each one of these categories of data key information types have been identified. And that is based on these primary functions and the ability of authorities to report and support these global indicators and global initiative such as the SDGs. And we've aligned with that as well. And we've included the same categories in the open up guide to ensure that the methodology for the open up guide is thoroughly integrated and builds on to essentially establish a baseline and the baseline that I think the solely and the methodology helps to establish an understanding the land information ecosystem is what the open up guide can build upon to ask the question. Okay, it's interesting. This is where we are. How do we go forward. How do we open up. What is suitable for opening up. I mean, really great. Make it. You highlighted a very important piece of work. We know that has taken us more than two years to develop joining bringing in land that expertise on one end and open data expertise and expertise of working with government that comes from open data charter. Thank you for mentioning that all the different data categories that and why are all important to take into account because we know very well that land is a core issue and therefore measuring land issues means a variety of different data types and land data. So Natty I will go back to you now and we're spending time in a line. The lamp or foundation research methodology and open data charter open map field guys methodologies, we decided to start implementing this open up guide online governance in a specific country context. Where is it going. What are the major challenges do we do you recognize these challenges also implementing other open up guys or is it something different doing for the land sector. Thank you very much Laura and let me start the answer to this to this question, but by saying that the the open up guide specifically targets, governmentally created data. In fact, we promote that government publishes the data that they produce understanding that data actually belongs to citizen. So governments are the kind of creators of this of this data because students of this data but the data actually belongs to citizens. And the other open up guides, it has always been important to test drive these tools live and understand their their value, but also in in the understanding sorry for repeating that the word that the open up guides are not written on stones. So throughout these iterations, we can understand their value for for the brother open data and then community make changes, add or take out certain data sets of the open up guide. So it is very important for us to do these these days, these types of iterations after we have at least the first, first version of the of the open up guides. Thanks to the collaboration with you and and with the support from GA said we have been able to start implementing and test driving these specific open up open up guide for land governance in Madagascar and Senegal at the same time, which is, which is also very interesting because we can see similarities and of course differences. While implementing this we have found these, these types of similarities and challenges, whenever we implemented in two countries at the same time we did the same with the climate change open up guide we implemented in Chile and Uruguay. And of course, there were things that that that were the same in both countries but then, of course, contexts matters. So let me tell you a little bit how, how that is going because it's still, it's both our projects that are still running. As Sami said, we are exploring the four data types and then the land tenure land value land use and land development but also understand understanding the legal framework and the relationship with climate change data. The legal framework of course allows us to understand which which data should should exist that doesn't exist legally, and which data can be published or not. So the definition of the open up guide, just to give it give you give you an idea in like three minutes has mainly three steps. So the first step is kind of a mapping exercise, we map the existing data, the data ecosystem and the organizations academia civil society organization journalists, whoever might be. So both mapping of existing data of actors within the data ecosystem and key stakeholders so also understanding which areas of government are actually the ones that are creating and and publishing or not this this data. It is important to understand also and collaborate with government, which data exists, it's digitalized but it's not published. So to understand like have a picture of what's going on we understand that data is more of a more of a movie, it keeps evolving and changing but we need to take that picture in order to start to work with with the stakeholders and understand better the different side and what what exists and what it was doesn't exist. With that mapping face done what we go through is the technical analysis of the data. So we try to understand the standards that are being used collect the metadata like when when is it when was it published when when will it be updated. So we use the main creator of this that data of the custodian of that data, and we actually try to give technical advice on how to open up the data that is not open yet. So we go data set by by data set trying to do this technical kind of advice, if you will. And after going through our participatory prioritization process because we want to tackle not only the supply side of data but as I have said and I will repeat. It's the demands data update the demand side of data that is very important. We create what we call a roadmap. So it's a roadmap to open up data. So far with all the open up guides it's create a short term meet term and long term kind of roadmap, because we know the project is going to end eventually, but we want to leave kind of activities for when we're not there collaborating with with this stakeholders. So we create this this roadmap based on once again the map the mapping exercise the work we've done with stakeholders and and the organizations from the demand side. Some of the challenges we've found so far or one of some of the things that we can tell about the project is there is limited land tenure data online and that is that is something that I think that the barometer also picked up. So even when it's digitized it's not published. There's of course social and political concerns so opening up land data should improve public sector administration, but there's still some, some like background like they don't want to publish some certain things that we want to we want to keep that going and create that build those bridges in order to promote openness from within government. Then we need to increase trust citizens and governments must trust the data and the intentions of opening up data. The idea that open data can be used to reduce inequity and not to facilitate inequality. It's something that we're working with with the stakeholders. We already know that open data can actually build an add value to governmental services and we need to work with with the governmental stakeholders to actually help them create that added value while using their own data to provide to provide better services for the citizens. Then, in some in some of the cases, these work on land data kind of would be a key thematic open data policy that is not like there's not an open data open data policy on a national level so we need to also help out with with capacity building to introduce the policies of collection storage stewardship, the publication and the use of data. And then also to improve the capacity of and the capability of land governance data to promote data driven decision making both for government and and the civil society or academia area. And I think I'll leave it there. Thank you, Nati. This is really comprehensive and let us understand how comprehensive not open guide approach is and also how important it is to also include a data literacy not capacity building program. When you implement it and also not look narrowly look at one sector but also understands or all the data stakeholders, different data stakeholders within specific countries or what role they play within the ecosystem. Thank you very much. We are running a little bit out of time and we are concluding now the second round of questions so let me turn to Jessica and maybe Jessica you can also drive us deeper into the approach of the open government partnerships and how that you are addressing the most important data challenges and gaps within the OGP work and how the OGP commitments are designed in a way that address these challenges and gaps. I condense the two questions to one so with the hope of save a little bit of time I give you the floor to you now Jessica. Sure, so I guess just to. So first I'll describe some of the gaps and then I can tell you a little bit about how the commitments within OGP are doing. So to highlight this I want to talk a little bit about what our team is doing with the data produced by the global data barometer. So it's really exciting because we can, we're using the data published by the global data barometer to understand where the gaps in each OGP member country are in publishing land data. So we can see whether where those gaps are and then we can see whether their commitments are actually addressing those gaps or whether they're about something completely different. And so we've been recently doing analysis part of our part of our project is looking at this land data. And what the data shows for OGP countries is that just under half of OGP countries have some form of land data or land tenure data or information available for free for public access. However, only a quarter of OGP members have this data available in an open usable format. And so, so really our goal here is to understand two things. One is what the gaps are in terms of data usability. The other is to understand what the gaps are in terms of what the data is covering. And so in terms of data usability and availability, we know that, you know, making this data actually downloadable machine readable. These are really big challenges, especially in the in the area of land management. And then in terms of topical challenges in terms of the the, I guess the scope of what the data is covering. We are missing key points. Most countries do not cover information about, as I was mentioning, the beneficiaries of land tenure. So this is a really big gap for for understanding and mapping political integrity. I see that not too many countries publish information about the gender of land tenure holders, which is a big area for ensuring gender equality and, and, and human rights and sustainability so there, there are definitely many, many gaps that where countries need to work more on both an improving the scope and improving the quality of the data. Luckily, OGP is a great. Okay, luckily, OGP is a great mechanism for implementing. Sorry, is there some, I think there might be some background noise sorry. The, there, it's a great mechanism for implementing these commitments so what we know from understanding the data that that we collect ourselves as OGP on the on OGP commitments is that commitments about land and land administration are generally more ambitious. They have greater potential to to transform the governance status quo, then, then the average OGP commitment about another topic, and they also produce stronger results. So, land commitments are more likely than the average commitment to to transform governance on the ground and actually produce these results. So, so using the resources that we have from the open up guide from the global data barometer, and then implementing through the vehicle of OGP is a is a great way for for countries to kind of move forward and make progress in this area. So I hope I got all your questions answered there. Yes, happy to answer any follow-ups as well. Thank you. Thank you. This, this was great just been very clear. Thank you for making very clear the distinction between of the usability so that it must be fair, not findable accessible into a pro usable but also they should cover all the range of issues that need to be addressed and in particular, you highlighted the generally segregated data that we know very well that is a big is a big challenge for the sector. And important campaigns going on and this particular progress this particular issue and it's, and also raise, you know, increased awareness of the data collectors to really have more data and more disaggregated data, because they are so important. I will go now very quickly into the third round of questions if you can please keep it very short so we can address two questions from the audience. So first, to you, and this third round of questions, I wanted to ask you about the future. What is your next plans. Do you see any opportunity, new opportunity that rise from this conversation today to further collaborate, further improve the synergies between our organizations and our work, the next steps. So first, to you, Nicholas, so do you see, what do you see as the next steps of the global data barometer and the network in particular. We try to respond to this in a few places. And first of all, I would like to bring here one of the main challenge that we had and some learned from the development and the implementation phase of the global data barometer that was building global indicators that were relevant and useful in local context. We know that every land governance ecosystem is different. There are different context, different political social cultures. So building global indicators that could take into consideration all these particularities is a whole challenge. And here I think that this is connected with the next steps and plans and relationship with different organizations. For example, we can think about the solid methodology to explore these local particularities, along with the implementation of the open up guide in different countries and see the results. And also to explore the commitment and dimensions to land data in each of the countries to learn more about the, how the local particularities of land governance can be reflected in global indicators that help us to collect useful data. And this useful data is, I think, where we have to begin the next step is analyzing very in a very detailed way all the data collected by the global data barometer to help and promote more open land data for everyone. Thank you so much. Very concise and to the point. And now over to you, Tommy, for future plans, future commitments, directions of the state of land information research work. Yeah, no, thank you. I think, you know, having done Solis in four countries in East Africa, in South Africa and we're currently busy with what's why I'm allowing the media and Zambia. And I think also as part of the open up guide in Senegal and Madagascar, we will have quite a wealth of information at country level. And we're also expecting perhaps to look at more countries in East Africa. So by the end of 2022, we could have completed Solis studies in about 15 countries. And I think what would be very interesting is to start comparing those country level results and also comparing those country level results with the results from the land module. And to see what synergies, what can we learn from this research and from this work and explore ways to further the collaboration with our partners and to see how we can use resources to move towards opening up more countries land data. I also hope that for these countries where Solis have been completed, there is an opportunity, perhaps to consider the implementation of the open up guide, where these benchmark studies have been done and we also now have a global benchmark, which I think really sets the stage to talk about not only describing the status quo, but moving towards opening up. And I think that is really exciting for the way forward. It's exciting. Yeah, you're right, Tommy. And now, Nati, what are the next countries and your agenda for the open up guides on land and how can we really know, as Tommy said, the link scale this up quickly, not because we know it takes a lot of time, long time to implement the open up guide in a specific country, perhaps also linking it to the OGP commitments and the global data parameter work. So yeah, we're hoping that events like this actually draw attention to the work that we've done and to the tool. And, and I invite anybody who's here listening about this work to reach out to us, because we would be more than glad to be able to share this open up guide in some other countries and in some other context. And what we've seen from the other open up guides that have a little bit more time now is that the open up guides have been amazing in being kind of an umbrella to help co-creation processes from the open government partnership. So there's already commitments that use the open up guide on anti-corruption as a baseline, the open up guide on climate change as a baseline, and we hope in the future we can see OGP commitments that are based on the open up guide on land governance. As everyone understands the types of data and that will be up for discussion, the guides help manage the expectations and that grounded conversations on what can be included in an OGP commitment and what cannot. So we hope that these new, if you will, open up guide would also be part of OGP co-creation process in the near future. Thank you, Nati. Jessica, will you also join this pledge for more support to this alliance to make our land data more accessible and open and available, and do you see also synergies for collaboration with initiatives that have been described here today? Yes, absolutely. I think this is a great spot also to highlight our OGP local program, which has expanded a lot recently, and one of the areas where we're seeing already some commitments among these local government members is land planning and participation in data openness and land planning. And so in the next few months we'll have, we're planning to put out some guidance on how local governments can consider making commitments in this area and what is feasible and doable at the local level. And here I also want to say the open up guide will also be critical because one of the great things about it is that it actually itemizes out the types of data that can be opened and then who are the key government actors who should be involved in that. And so I think that will be really helpful for for OGP co-creation processes to really think about who should be in the room when these commitments are being created. And then the last thing I'll highlight is also with the local program where our team is working on putting our thematic peer exchange focused on land. And so this will be a great place for government and civil society partners to come together to exchange ideas about these topics and really promote and galvanize commitments in this area. So definitely a lot of places to collaborate in the future. And I'm really excited to be involved in this going forward. Great. Thank you. Thank you for this exciting discussion and the great content. So we still have about 20 minutes of time left. So let's try to address your questions. I will pick up three or four questions and then you can decide which one you want to answer. All the questions are really specific. So I will read a few of them. And if you recognize to have some knowledge or expertise in this specific geographical area, feel free to address the question. So the first one is anonymous. So there is an island in the Caribbean, which is called Codrington, which has no existing industrial system. And this island was severely impacted by a hurricane a few years ago. I've been trying to access the spatial image data sets for the island from the central government of Antigua, which is responsible for this type of information, but was now able to find to access this data set. So how this person is asking how he can find acquired, this data for his land administration digital prototype working on the Cadastro for the island. So if anyone has any knowledge about Codrington and Barbuda, please address the question. So the next one is for Nati. Has the open up guide for land governance taken into account the pastoral land, particularly in the SIO, where this issue is particularly important. And also he's asking if the guide is translated in other languages like French. Nati just explained that we are implementing the guide in Madagascar and Senegal. So yes, this is available in French. Amir is also asking, can studies such as the one that Jessica mentioned, can be, is valid for the Caribbean area, and would she recommend Well, and would they require information from the island government or local organization. This is not really clear. In the context of internal and cross border displacement, land data is critical in finding durable solutions for internal displacement, peoples and refugees. So Jamal is asking whether there are existing tools, land tools, supported by clear government mandates that capture, tenure information for affected internal displaced people, communities, and how do we navigate land data capture, not particularly land tenure data in this very sensitive context. So I stopped here for now and wanted to ask whether any of the panelists want to address these specific questions, which are you can also find in the Q&A box before I address the following questions. Any of you, some are really very specific. Tommy, Tommy, you are muted. Maybe I can speak to the issue of pastoral land rights in the Sahara, simply by saying that I think the open up guide makes allowance for essentially any kind of tenure right. The onus is of course on government or society or civil society or some organization documenting those rights, whether it's verbally orally whatever documentation so I think the open up guide is not a prescriptive guide in terms of recording rights, but it provides governments and organizations interested in opening up data with a methodology for how to distribute and make that data available. The underlying assumption is that such data is being recorded that such records are being created. But the guide also asked the question about the gaps that exist. So it's also useful for understanding what data is not being recorded. And this could be an example where a key tenure right is not being recorded is not being considered. And the guide can then help shine a light on that so that governments and local actors can actually to help to capture such rights regarding land. Anyone else. Lopez also asking how global and information system can address. Land markets. Specifically targeting land used by indigenous communities. So, and the fact that governments describe some of these lands now that is used for pastoralism or indigenous as the way this land is described by governments and how it is the factor used. So it's very of course it's very difficult to really have a clear understandings now by looking on the data that is available from from the government. Well, I think one could answer the question by perhaps just saying that the open up guides, provide that kind of transparency for land use systems and for describing land use systems and making that public. So that if land is inappropriately described that can be brought to the attention of society and groups that are responsible for that, because I mentioned an example I was speaking to a forester once, and he said that an unused forest would often be described by government as vacant or unused land, and for him as a forest that he sees it as the perfect use for forest land, i.e. the fact that there is no agriculture. So I think what the open up guide can assist with is trying to help make public this kind of descriptions designations of land uses and allow that contestation of ideas and uses as a book in terms of what does unused mean, and what does forest mean, and allow a discourse about that to take place. I think Nadi mentioned a couple of times that the open up guide should be seen as a process and as a mechanism for allowing a conversation about land use and land rights to take place. And I think that's an important principle in terms of taking this kind of approach with the open up guide. I can, I can try to answer and just give like a glance on on kind of humanitarian data which goes well beyond open data and that's where we connect with kind of global initiatives. The United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has launched a while ago. What is what is known as the humanitarian data exchange initiative. So there's specific rules of collecting and sharing that type of data in order to provide better, better responses to humanitarian crisis. As far as this placement and the question that addressed that I would draw the attention to the Ocha platform, because we're talking about a specific type of data and specific needs that that type of data has that goes well beyond what the open up guide actually has like in in in its core. So yes, there's there's a community working towards how to gather and manage that data properly, but it's not it's not included in the in the data sets that the open up guide actually tackles. The Office of the Office of the United Nations, the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has this HDX platform which is humanitarian data exchange platform I would, I would recommend the person that had that question to go and find there all the resources. Thank you, Nati. Yeah, these are very specific questions for land experts really answer land data experts. So if any of you have any additional comments to add. So is it also not a very specific question. Let's suppose that a single land title is given to a village you know a cell in the rural community this happens in Africa sometimes was it's not very often but it has started to happen. In this case the title can be held in trust by the village manager management so it's managed by the village. And Loba is asking whether this address land related inequality, participation in decision making. Of course. Yeah, this is very specific question not very data related but of course we know how is one of the challenges that land registries need to address writing and documenting the land is not being documented and specifically documenting the land is called by groups or communities. So not all the areas managed by individual owners. But sometimes the land is managed by an indigenous groups or a community. Sometimes no land registry need to be updated to reflect this reality that for centuries has not really been documented properly. So of course this this can become a darker challenge. This is one of the biggest challenges in the land sector not only land registry not up to date sometimes there are overlapping tennis systems that are in conflict with each other. The land is not properly documented and before for the government is is free land that can be given. No, you can invest upon or private versus community land rights that enter into conflicting situation. Anyone has a comment about that. And briefly on that. Just to say that, yes, this, this example that the, the audience member gave is a great one of recognize of the need to recognize these communal land tenure rights and when that's documented that's a, you know, that's an important first step to ensuring that this land isn't grabbed by, you know, a private company or used by the government for another purpose. But I think to to answer the second part of the question about reducing inequality within communities. Having this documentation is only one step towards that. And I think just to highlight and I can point you towards resources on our website. We've had several commitment examples where, where OGP members have made commitments to involve communities in land planning, and several of these have been very successful and actually allowing communities to negotiate with other other actors who have interest in the land, whether that be the government, whether that be a mining company, what have you and so creating these, these bodies of, of community members that actually have, you know, that that actually have this negotiating power is also, you know, an important step towards ensuring this equality so that I would say the documentation is one step and then to actually ensure equality within communities and between communities and other actors. This participation component is also really important. So hopefully that kind of answers the question as well. Thank you, Jessica. Anyone else. And of course, in the land sector, we can probably mention that there are several organizations initiatives that really focus on collecting people centered data right in a situation where there is no data. The government doesn't, the land registries will be not documenting properly. There are several people at initiatives that take care of collecting data and documenting and ownership in the areas and then working with the government together, basically legitimizing the government. Are you expanding open data in East Africa, this work of this question is related to the fact whether on whether your initiative will also cover East Africa or is already covering East Africa. I mean, I think we've, we've, we've laid a foundation in East Africa with the, with the solely providing a good baseline for the information. It is some years old now already and that can be revised but I do think certainly there is potential. I mean a lot of work has been done for for East Africa, and I know a lot more work is still going to be done in East Africa so I think there's definitely potential for looking at that. I think it's just worth noting that the open up guide is not about establishing an open data portal, but is about documenting the existence of country level open data, rather than connecting more data. So I think that's just something to make, make clear. Thank you very much. Thank you for this great discussion today and all the important insights and the commitments towards more collaboration and synergy. Thank you for the questions from the audience. Please remember to complete the brief survey that comes after the webinar. You're very much interested in your feedback and, and your comments. And now let me just go very quickly for 30 second final statements from all, all the panelists before we close. So we want to start from you again Nicholas, you have any final thoughts and final remark and final statements that you want the audience to. Yeah, we have a find out and reinforce today, there is a long way and a lot of work to do, let you learn the data to improve openness and access. And I think that through partnership and through improving the local knowledge of the particularities, we are moving towards there. Thank you Nicholas, Tommy. Yeah, I think working together is the most important aspect and building trust and building relationships and having these discussions and I think today is just another step in this process and I would like to encourage everybody that was at the webinar to visit our website to look for updates and to look for resources and please feel free to contact us with any questions queries or if you want to just get involved. Thank you. Thank you. Tommy. Yeah, encourage encourage everyone to reach out to us as we say we would like to implement the guide in different contexts to figure out how to improve this tool over time. So just reach out to us and I hope we see in the future on GP commitments based on on this open up guide. And Jessica. Rebecca and Nazi said, we definitely are hoping to see, see more commitments come out of this collaboration and very excited looking forward to, to being able to implement more of these commitments and if any of the attendees here are interested in talking more about the open government partnership or getting involved in OGB processes. You can go to our website open gov partnership.org and feel free to reach out with any questions about how to get involved. Thank you Jessica and thank you to our audience to join us today for we appreciate your participation your engagement and questions be free to get back to us if you have any additional questions sorry if you are not able to answer all your questions. I reiterate here a few keywords that came from our panelists partnerships working together collaboration synergies are really strong point they want to reiterate building trust and to open up land data for better land governance and better ecosystem. Thank you to all of you feel free to go to our websites land portal or GP open data charter and the global data barometer and explore and all the information in the data there. Thank you again and have a good rest of the day. Goodbye. Hi everyone. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Thank you.