Collaboration Call: October 6, 2017

1. Updates

• Stephanie is going to start working on the French translation on the website with Angela, initial meeting on 16th. Audrey available to assist where helpful.
• Laura went to UN Seminar on Open Data & SDGs in Seoul, Korea. We’ll continue to send updates on country interest. Connected with Ghana after the call. They are currently evaluating applicants from the TOR, and will let us know next steps late Nov.
• CODE will be starting advisory work with Sierra Leone early November. There is interest in better understanding SDG reporting options.
• CODE synced up with UK team. Interested in understanding how to collaborate, and who would be POC for syncing up with UK.
• OAS are interested in co-hosting webinars
• PEPFAR just announced 13 priority countries, mostly concentrated in eastern and southern Africa. It would be good to discuss NRP work with these as well.

2. Previous Call Follow-Up

• Next UNECE call planned for October 19th
• CODE is planning to bring on developers by mid October. Once the developer joins, we will set up calls with the POCs to discuss each priority in more detail.
• No update on NRP priorities
• Some feedback received on Tanzania platform.

3. Upcoming events / conferences n/a

4. Logistics n/a

5. Next Steps

• CODE to invite UK ONS to join team & confirm OAS participation in bi-monthly calls, as well as availability for 10.30am EST
• USG to follow up re: PEPFAR priority countries
• USG & CODE to schedule onboarding for developers when recruited. UPDATE: call scheduled 10/18 to discuss onboarding.
• USG to update status of priorities - https://github.com/GSA/sdg-indicators/wiki/NRP-Development-Priorities%3A-updated-October-10%2C-2017
• USG to verify status of Francisco on the project. UPDATE: Francisco will continue to advise on SDMX matters.
• USG to provide any additional feedback on Tanzania platform: http://sdg.datasetindex.com/. The source code with basic description can be found at [https://github.com/tehamalab/dgs] for the backend and [https://github.com/WorldBank-Transport/dgs-dash] for the public facing frontend. The above repositories are copies (forks) of [https://github.com/tehamalab/dgs] and [https://github.com/tehamalab/dgs-dash]