This is a three-part podcast concerned with data and knowledge-based decision making.

The guest is World Bank’s Arianna Legovini. Her expertise – central to this discussion – is in improving the impact of research on development practice and policy.

Data is an instrument in and of governance. As any tool, data is as good as those handling (in this case, reading) it. So how good are we? Part 1 goes into new data landscape, the new skills it demands of us, and the public sector’s capacity to steer it all.