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In the 1st Summit for Democracy in 2021, Audrey Tang announced to Open the Database of Important Gender Statistics for people around the world.

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2022-04-18
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Audrey Tang

 

In the first " Summit for Democracy" in December 2021, with the concerted efforts of the public, private and social sectors, Taiwan put forward 62 specific commitments at home and abroad. Based on this list, Taiwan will cooperate with countries with similar ideas and continue to invest in strengthening Democracy and optimization of human rights work.

The discussions at the Summit for Democracy led Taiwan to decide to formally connect the Database of Important Gender Statistics to the Open Data(https://data.gov.tw),  structure the data and open it up for people around the world.

 

One of the commitments is to require relevant government units, including ministries and commissions affiliated to the Executive Yuan, state-run enterprises, and consortiums donated by the government, to disclose the gender ratio of decision-makers. As we all know, the Gender Equality Council of the Executive Yuan has accumulated fruitful results for many years. How to ensure the commitment and continue to deepen the relevant work, the existence of the Database of Important Gender Statistics is crucial.

 

The "Database of Important Gender Statistics" is compiled by the Gender Equality Committee of the Executive Yuan, which selects the most important items from the gender statistics items established by various government agencies. Since its establishment in 2015, the database has included more than 500 gender statistics of various agencies, providing all sectors with the long-term trend of gender equality development.

 

 

The discussions at the Summit for Democracy led Taiwan to decide to formally link the "Database of Important Gender Statistics" to Open Data(https://data.gov.tw). Making data structured and open for global use is not only a commitment of NAP (National Action Plan), but also an important foundation for promoting gender-inclusive dialogue and participation. Therefore, the Gender Equality Division of the Executive Yuan and Audrey Tang began to discuss the technical details of interfacing the database with the open platform.

 

 

Since the important gender statistics come from different agencies, if they are sorted and uploaded to the platform separately, it will not only increase the cost of communication between agencies, but also may cause the risk of data omission and difficulty in classification.

 

Therefore, the data of each department is directly imported into the platform in batches every day through the shared keyword "#genderstatistics". At the same time, each data is marked with the contact window of the agency to facilitate quick confirmation when the data is collated. This approach not only ensures the complete import of data, but also allows the relevant units to be more flexible in the subsequent processing of the data, for example, allowing the agency to add more keywords to a single piece of data to make the data search more accurate.

 

The Database of Important Gender Statistics represents the government's views on gender policy. When these data are combined with global open data to explore, analyze, and cross-comparison, we can more clearly see the significance of gender factors in policy, and promote "evidence-based governance". This is not only the policy of the Taiwan government, but also an important cornerstone for the development of digital democracy and human rights.

 

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