Collaboration Call: January 3, 2020

1. Technical Updates

UK team

• New feedback survey live – linked from header.
• Expert review conducted by our user researcher – various quick wins suggested which will address some of the issues raised in previous usability testing.

US team

• No updates

CODE team

• Focused on working towards version 1.0.0 of Open SDG

2. Country/subnational interest in cloning the NRP

• UK
  • Continuing to work with Kyrgyzstan to populate and customise their site eg streamline metadata, add Russian metadata, adding national indicators
  • Had session with UNECE to discuss their needs for country data for regional reporting – drafting user stories for this
  • Expression of interest from Uganda

3. Upcoming conferences

• UK
  • Sessions for UNECE meeting in Budapest in April – Kali leading session re open source reporting platforms
  • World Data Forum in Bern October – need to discuss/coordinate submissions?
  • Suggestion from UNSD previously re workshop for Open SDG users – could include countries interested but not currently using. Have meeting with UNSD 22 Jan to discuss further – will include Brock. Would aim to tag onto existing planned events if possible. Could consider alternative approaches eg webinar.

4. Next steps

• UK
  • Review further ReadtheDocs info and structure – eg promote the ‘Who is using’ to top, separate changes and revisions section (‘Change log’ is under Community)
  • Further case studies? Cambodia? Moldova?