Riyadh, August (پاکستان پوائنٹ نیوز 22 أغسطس 2025ء) This election underscores the growing international recognition of the Kingdom’s leading role in advancing digital transformation and shaping official data and statistical governance policies, reflecting its commitment to supporting global efforts and working with international partners to build a secure and reliable digital future. The objective is to boost the confidence of the international community by providing accurate statistics that support development policies and decision-making, in line with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030.
This working group serves as an international platform and a central tool for global coordination on data governance. It helps establish common terminology, facilitates the exchange of national best practices and expertise at regional and international levels, and creates a guiding framework for organizing and using data sources. These efforts enhance transparency, support sustainable development goals, develop foundational principles, and leverage existing initiatives to define global and regional data governance principles and their applicability to official data and statistics.
The Kingdom's membership will contribute to fostering a secure and reliable global statistical data environment, driving innovation, and enabling communities to maximize the value of data to support economic and social development. It will also help in drafting international data governance standards and policies, while benefiting from the exchange of the latest international practices and developing initiatives that enhance innovation and cooperation among member states.
The WGDG was established this year and held its first meeting, with GASTAT President Al-Dossari participating as co-chair. The meeting focused on discussing the group’s timeline, roles, and key tasks.
