IMF handholds Botswana in building statistical capacity

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Botswana has become the first member country to implement the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) enhanced General Data Dissemination System (eDDS) that is aimed at making information easily accessible in both human and machine-readable formats.

At the request of the local authorities, a mission from the IMF’s statistics department visited Gaborone last week to assist with the implementation of the e-GDDS.

The mission helped redevelop the National Summary Data Page (NSDP), currently on the Bank of Botswana (BoB) website, utilising the open data platform.

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