The 2022.Q2 release for DIAL’s flagship product is now live! We’ve added brand new features, fixed some bugs, and made technical improvements to the Catalog, a platform which is designed to support the delivery of digital infrastructure using the whole-of-government approach and leveraging the SDG Digital Investment Framework.
New Features
Open Datasets - In this brand new tab on the Catalog, you can find links to freely available datasets to help with your own digital transformation initiatives. Key notation on each dataset is also available including a description of the dataset, the organization which is maintaining it, information on updates and licenses, the sector it provides data for, geographic coverage, and more. Users can find the same filtering interface that they know and love to quickly find the datasets that are most useful for their projects. Datasets can be viewed in card, list, or detail view, following the format of other tabs in the Catalog.
Why is this useful? Through this feature, there is greater access to data, equipping policymakers to make informed decisions with greater accountability and transparency. The Open Datasets tab on the Catalog has launched with 130+ entries that users can access, visualize, use, analyze, share, and redistribute. Our list continues to grow, and if you have content you would like to add, you can sign up and submit candidate entries.
Useful applications for datasets - Open data presents a key opportunity to provide essential service delivery to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data exchange accelerates technical innovation by allowing software and AI models to be more precise and deepen their potential positive impact on development. Open datasets can help unlock value across many sectors, including agriculture, climate, health, and social inclusion.Addition of Agriculture Development tags for intuitive searching - In our continued focus on AgDev, we are introducing new tags that will improve your search for content. Tags are simple pieces of data, usually a word or two, that provide a brief description for every entry in the Catalog, that make it easy to locate entries that have been mapped to a specific tag. Many of the tags in the Catalog are specific to data, technology, and digital, but there are other sector-specific tags (such as COVID-19 or food insecurity) that are useful for identifying data and guidance tools across the SDG Digital Investment Framework.
New Playbooks Content and Functionality - A new playbook in is now available, authored by Stan Mierzwa et al. of Kean University, which facilitates the implementation of a cybersecurity assessment in digital public health initiatives. We have added a few improvements to the playbooks feature since its launch in March 2022:
Save drafts - Users that want to source playbooks content have access to an updated form which allows saving draft versions of playbooks before publishing.
Cross-share your playbooks on other website - users can easily embed playbooks in the Catalog onto other websites. Simply click on the “embed playbook” button that will generate a link to cross-share.
Add a cover image to your playbook - users can upload an appropriate cover image to any playbook they author such as their organization’s logo.
Create and edit “product” entries - There is now a new and improved form for creating and editing product entries. Registered users can easily nominate products (subject to review). In addition, product owners can claim their product pages and update provide updated information to users in the Catalog, including fields that were previously uneditable, such as SDGs, tags, projects, etc.
Edit “organization” entries - Similarly, organization pages can now be edited using an easy-to-use edit form. Each organization can now easily list sectors that they work in or projects that leveraged digital tools.
DPGA submission view - DIAL’s Catalog sources product information for the Digital Public Goods Alliance Registry. Products that are listed in the DPGA Registry have been successfully reviewed and found to meet the DPG Standard through their reviewed submission forms. The Catalog now supports a link back to each DPG’s submission form.
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