Current Affairs Question - 24 July 2019

Explanation :

• On 24^th July, 2019, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Institute for Medical Statistics (ICMR-NIMS), in partnership with Population Council, launched the National Data Quality Forum (NDQF).
• NDQF will integrate learnings from scientific and evidence-based initiatives and guide actions through periodic workshops and conferences.
• Its activities will help establish protocols and good practices of data collection, storage, use and dissemination that can be applied to health and demographic data, as well as replicated across industries and sectors.
• NDQF aims to bring together relevant stakeholders, subject matter experts, industry leaders, decision makers, and data scientists / analysts onto a common platform. This platform will be guided by the direction provided by a high level steering committee and operationalized with the help of a technical advisory group composed of subject matter experts.

Source: Civil Services Chronicle Online