• 30 JUN 2021
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• VIRTUAL

Data Science and Official Statistics
Part of the "Road to Bern" Webinar series

The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) of Switzerland together with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and Facebook are organizing a webinar on the topic of Data Science and Official Statistics. FSO recently established a Data Science Competence Centre which will benefit all government departments of Switzerland, while UNSD has been supporting the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics since 2014. Facebook uses Data Science in developing market strategy, but also to support a large Open Source community, called PyTorch, which has developed a machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.

• 6 MAY 2021
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• VIRTUAL EVENT

Measuring the information society using new data sources
Partnership session of WSIS 2021

Over the past decade, national statistical offices have been tasked with producing accurate, high quality statistics faster, more frequently and with a reduced burden on respondents. Yet they are expected to achieve this within the same or even a smaller budget. To face this challenge, national statistical offices can turn to innovative data sources like passive mobile positioning data (MPD).

Even though the private sector was the first to harness big data, the practice has now expanded to the global statistical community. The United Nations Statistical Commission and national statistical offices are looking into ways of using big data sources to complement official statistics and better meet their objectives for providing timely and accurate evidence for policy-making.

A project, led by ITU, was conducted in 2020 to demonstrate how big data can be used to produce internationally agreed ICT SDG indicators 9.c.1 (Proportion of population covered by a mobile network) and 17.8.1 (Individuals using the Internet). The feasibility of using MPD for both indicators was tested in both Brazil and Indonesia, one of each presented in the case studies. The collaboration showed that public and private sector organisations can work together for societal interest to leave no one behind.

• 11 MAR 2021
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• VIRTUAL EVENT

Training in the Use of Big Data and Data Science

This side-event of the 52nd UN Statistical Commission will showcase the competence framework on Big Data and data science and the related maturity matrix for statistical offices, the training program on Earth observations for agriculture statistics and the training courses on privacy preserving techniques. The objective is to convey the message that training in Big Data and data science is being developed and is available and open to all the members of the Commission.

• 9 MAR 2021
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• VIRTUAL EVENT

Big Data for the SDGs - What is the Way Forward - An Interactive Exchange of Views

In the context of the Global Working Group on Big Data and its Task Team on Big Data for the SDGs in particular, the purpose of this side-event of the 52nd UN Statistical Commission is to share status of the current work on monitoring the SDGs with the help of non-traditional data, including big data sources such as Earth observations and citizen generated data. The aim of the side event is to provide inspiration and knowledge exchange for countries wishing to exploit big data for their SDG reporting.

• 23 FEB 2021
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• VIRTUAL EVENT

Using Big Data on the UN Global Platform - Side Event of the 52nd UNSC

This side-event of the 52nd UN Statistical Commission will showcase the projects on Sen2Agri, AIS data and .STAT. The objective is to convey the message that the data, services, technology and applications on the platform are available and open to all the members of the Commission.

• 11 NOV 2020
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• VIRTUAL

Annual Meeting of the UN Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics

The UN Global Working Group (GWG) on Big Data for Official Statistics will have its annual plenary meeting virtually on 11 November 2020.

• 15 OCT 2020
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• VIRTUAL

Data Innovation in Official Statistics - "Road to Bern" Webinar

The UN Global Working Group (GWG) on Big Data for Official Statistics will conduct a webinar jointly with the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) of Switzerland on the topic of data innovation in official statistics.

• 3 - 6 SEP 2020

AIS Big Data Hackathon

Automatic identification system (AIS) data allows for real-time geo-tracking and identification for equipped vessels. AIS data provides a big data source of unrivaled quality. The number of possible applications for this data is enormous. To quickly utilize the data to its full potential, we need a surge of creative researchers to come up with equally creative ways to use it!

• QATAR
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• 4-5 NOV 2019

Regional Workshop on Modernization of Official Statistics in the State of Qatar

• Ronald Jansen
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• 16 OCT 2019

Activities of the GWG task team on mobile phone data

• Ronald Jansen
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• 27 SEP 2019

Planet and Google ready to help the United Nations on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development