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Regional cooperation and improved data practices can help address the challenge of plastic pollution more effectively.

Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.

New technologies, including APIs and SDMX, are revolutionizing data collection and sharing, reducing the data gap in Asia and the Pacific.

Access to information, evidence, and policy development help identify situations and monitor the effects of policy interventions.

A centralized platform that promotes data sharing and visibility can help improve an organization’s efficiency and impact.

Computer-assisted surveys make data collection possible despite COVID-19 travel and social restrictions.

Poverty maps derived from satellite images helped target the most vulnerable households in pandemic-affected areas in the Philippines.

A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.

In Southeast Asia, big data can help transform the delivery of education, health care, and social welfare and protection services.

In Indonesia, a university in Lampung is building an SDGs monitoring dashboard to improve data management and visualization for local governments.