In the past years, data have been put in the spotlight. Indeed, policy makers and citizens have been asking for more and more data to understand and monitor the development of the 2030 Agenda, the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. However, nowadays, attention spans are extremely short and facts are now competing with attractive fake news.

So how can data producers innovate to share high-quality and reliable data to the general public? Which tools can be used to catch the information of citizens and provide the information that might help them in their day-to-day life? What do citizens need from official statistics?

This session organized is organized within the framework of the “Unlocking the Power of Data Initiative”, a project launched by the Swiss Confederation to expand the dialogue on data and statistics to stakeholders beyond the data and statistics communities and deepen knowledge.

It will be the fourth event of the Data Literacy Workstream, following its launch at the UNWDF 2023, a side-event at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and a recent event in Tirana, Albania. Whereas previous events have focused on getting policy makers on board with the data agenda, this event will target the general public. It will seek to find good practices to reach and interest citizens in data by showing them how data can be useful in their day-to-day life.

This session will bring two data producers to share their good practices in reaching out to the general public and two data users, one from the Parliament and from policymaking to share what is needed from their side and what is attractive to the public. All of them will present data visualizations examples that they produced or used to convey messages to the general public.

Organiser: Vjollca Simoni
Chair: Benjamin Rothen 
Panellist: Georges-Simon Ulrich 
Panellist: Miosotis Rivas Peña 
Panellist: Elizabeth RIchards
Panellist: Daniel Lapidus