Article by Steve MacFeely: “On 1 May 2025, the United Nations (UN) Commission for Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) held the first meeting of a new Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Data Governance at All Levels in Geneva. Less than three weeks later, the UN Statistics Commission held the first (online) meeting of their new Working Group on Data Governance. Only a fortnight later, on 8 June 2025, the UNESCO Broadband Commission launched their new Data Governance Toolkit at the World Summit on the Information Society (tinyurl.com/fcnzu4ha).
What triggered this flurry of data governance activity at the UN? This article sets out some of the key events and work that led up to this eruption of activity and attempts to explain why it is important…(More)”.
