Celebrating Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands: A Women’s Financial Inclusion Champion

Data2X is thrilled to join the global community in celebrating the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development for her strong voice on the value of gender data.

Progress, Challenges, and the Future for Women’s Financial Inclusion Data at the 2019 AFI Global Policy Forum

Last week, at the annual Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Global Policy Forum (GPF) in Kigali, Rwanda, over 800 policymakers,…

The GovLab Shares Insights with Data2X on New Big Data for Gender Research

In 2017, Data2X issued a call for research projects that sought to apply insights drawn from big data to the…

Pricey but priceless: the cost of funding a quality gender data system

The G7 leaders will gather starting tomorrow to focus on a key area of France’s G7 presidency, “fighting against inequality”.

Mainstreaming gender and data in the climate change conversation

Climate change—and the environment more broadly—isn’t one of Data2X’s core focus areas, but we recognize that it is a critical driver for development progress.

Diving Deep into Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: A Case for Action and Empowerment

Data can make a difference in addressing a slew of development challenges, but few opportunities have sparked more passion for us at Open Data Watch than achieving gender equality through better data.

Not a “data type”? There’s room for you in the gender data movement.

Gender data may be a technical topic, but it’s one with widespread relevance even to those who don’t consider themselves “data types”. I should know, because I’m one of them.

Data-Rich, Gender Data-Poor: Why Financial Service Providers Need to Use Gender Data

It is not yet lunchtime on a Monday and a quick glance of my recent financial history in the last…

Revitalizing the Roots of the Gender Data Movement: From Mexico City to Beijing and Beyond

Time for a history pop quiz! Which United Nations World Conference on Women was the first to mention the need…

Gender Data: Why We’re Stuck in the What, and How to Move On

Anyone coming to a new subject will be familiar with the feeling that everyone around you is speaking a different…