1. Africa Information Highway
The New way to improve data access in Africa

2. Context & Background
High Level Forum for Aid Effectiveness, Busan, Dec 2011 => Busan Action Plan for Statistics (BAPS)—call to promote full access to official statistics
4th Statistical Commission for Africa’s of 2012—request to AFDB
AU Summit of July 2012 (AfDB, AUC, and ECA) to support countries to develop effective data management and dissemination systems
G8 summit of June 2013—Good governance to scale up development effectiveness
AfDB’s Statistical Capacity program

3. Context & Background Policy and other decision making not data-driven
Data access by the general public quite limited
Data access/exchange within/between countries challenging
Data reporting to organizations a major burden

4. What is Africa Information Highway
The Africa Information Highway (AIH) is the AfDB’s initiative that has linked the African countries through the Open Data Platform
This initiative covers data management and data dissemination tools
The system facilitates data exchange in SDMX

5. AIH Implementation
The installation start in January 2013 and the system is now available in:
All 54 Africans countries
9 regional and sub regional organizations
Central Banks and Ministries of finance(through the IMF/AfDB collaboration)
Some others ministries in the National Statistic System in African countries

6. Objectives of AIH
Facilitate easy public access of official statistics to the general public.
Improve decision making based on data
Improve data harmonization, thereby increase data comparability.
Improve exchanges of data among organizations and countries.
Introduce tool for data submission to partners.

7. Countries Implementation

8. Countries Implementation
The system is available in all African Countries and regional organizations.
In coordination with the National Statistic office we try to involve all others agencies participating on the National Statistic System (NSS).
So the AIH participate in Africa to assist NSO to better coordinate the NSS by improving their data collaboration

9. COUNTRY OPEN DATA PLATFORM
Countries Implementation
Economic Data
COUNTRY OPEN DATA PLATFORM
Data Inputs from NSO and all others Agencies
Demographic Data
Education Data
Based on these inputs, countries are implementing
Differents kind of outputs(Dashboards, Report, etc.)
New modules also are developped in countries at top of the ODP as:
African Statistical Yearbook Dissemination; Census Page; etc
Others Data

10. Countries Implementation
Yearbook Implementation in Senegal

11. Countries Implementation
Census Page Implementation in Benin

12. Countries Implementation
A new module for monitoring the National Economic Plan in Burkina Faso integrated on their Open Data Platform

13. SDG data Monitoring in africa

14. SDG Data Monitoring
SDGs Data Hubs built for each country on top of the Open Data Platform

15. SDG Data Monitoring
We recently work with Mauritius and their SDG Data Page was updated. This updated page is available from this link:
to create a contextual story using open data.

16. SDG Data Monitoring
Data displayed by Goal and by Target with breakdown to indicators

17. SDG Data Monitoring Data Exchange with International Organizations
Public
Country
SDG page
Ministry of Health
RegionalSDGs Data Hub
Health
Goals
Environmental Goals
Ministry of Environment
Education
Goals
Ministry of Education
International Organizations
Other
Goals
Other Ministries
SDGs Data Hub
Dashboards/Visualizations

18. SDG Data monitoring : REGIONAL SDGs DATA HUB
As part of the AIH initiative, AfDB launched the Regional SDGs Data Hub(
This SDGs Data Hub allows users, regional organizations and International Organizations to access
all SDGs Data of all African Countries.

19. E-GDDS Implementation

20. e-GDDS Implementation
On May 1, 2015, the IMF Board conducted the Ninth Review of the IMF's Data Dissemination Standards Initiatives
Directors endorsed IMF staff's proposal to improve the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)
From this date, GDDS was replaced by e-GDDS and all 112 countries participating in GDDS became participants in e-GDDS

21. e-GDDS Implementation
Why the e-GDDS ?
Only 14 countries had moved from the GDDS to the SDDS since the creation of the GDDS in 1997
Progress had been slow and insufficient for a number of reasons:
Inadequate financial, human and technical capacities, especially in small and low-income countries
Lack of incentives for data dissemination
Lack of sustained support or political will for statistics
Access to international capital markets without subscribing to the SDDS
The enhanced GDDS (e-GDDS) was designed to help address these challenges

22. e-GDDS Implementation
The IMF is collaborating with AfDB to implement e-GDDS in Africa using the AfDB platforms
18 countries are already covered for this collaboration
Using the Open Data Platform (ODP), the IMF implement for each country a National Summary Data Page (NSDP) which covers all e-GDDS data domains
As the ODP portals are SDMX compliant, the IMF uses them to automatically collect data in SDMX format from Africans countries that participate in the eGDDS

23. International Standards (SDMX) On the Open Data platform
e-GDDS Implementation
IMF
Partner orgs
Public
User Access
Data mapping to
International Standards (SDMX)
On the Open Data platform
Country data
Data Submission tool
[Country/Agency ODP]
Countries map data to international standards (SDMX) and load in the Open Data platform
Partner organizations and public users pick from the Open Data platform manually in different formats (Excel, PDF, etc.) or automatically using SDMX.

24. e-GDDS Implementation

25. e-GDDS Implementation
This collaboration is very successful as 14 African countries now have their National Summary Data Page available to the public on the Open Data Platform
IMF and AfDB will continue these efforts to assist African countries implementing the e-GDDS – for example, missions are planned to Togo and the Gambia in March 2018
Another important result of this collaboration is Senegal’s accession to the SDDS, in November 20, 2017, following a successful e-GDDS implementation earlier that year

26. THANKS