The Sprint will be organized from the perspective of concrete use cases.

Several topics where global value chains come into play have been preselected:

• international trade in clothing
• coffee and tea
• electronics
• horticultural products
• (B2C) e-commerce

These use cases are expected to be relevant for a wide array of statistical institutes globally and they address topics that are of significant interest for users of economic statistics. Moreover, it is believed that the use of privately held data sources provides clear benefits, in addition to more traditional statistical sources, in each of these cases.

The topics and associated challenges will be introduced by renowned experts from various domains. The Sprint participants are expected to refine the use cases and decide together where to put the focus. This could lead to some use cases being moved forward, some being dropped, and other use cases for specific industries being added depending on the interest to pursue them.