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The UN Statistics Division and Statistics Korea (National Statistical Office of the Republic of Korea) have co-organized every year an international seminar regarding important issues on the global statistical agenda since 2010. The seminar has covered a variety of social and economic issues from the perspective of statistics. For example, we have discussed the role of data and statistics in understanding open data and data disaggregation for reaching Sustainable Development Goals; and using big data for official statistics. As we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of timely data using new data sources and data linkage has increased and it has provided us with new opportunities to the international statistical community for discussing the data stewardship and the data security issues.

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Data Stewardship

In 2021, the UN Statistical Commission created a UN working group on data stewardship to promote sharing of data, whether public-public or public-private, allowing the regular use of relevant data for the generation of official statistics, while preserving privacy and confidentiality; and to improve the national data ecosystems through better methods and access inspired by a data stewardship approach. The program of work of this group covers - among others - data governance, equity and inclusion; the development of a conceptual framework for data stewardship; and increased attention to issues related to protection of privacy of data while ensuring its full utilization.

Secure sharing of data

Official statistics are a trusted source of information for governments around the world to make informed and data-driven decisions. As such, data are collected from a range of sources, such as household and business surveys, population, economic or agricultural censuses, a variety of administrative records or even private sector data. Those data sources are the inputs for the compilation of statistics and indicators on the economy, the environment and the society. In many ways, official statistics offer a snapshot of a country's development and rate of progress. However, the collection, processing, and dissemination of often sensitive data should only be done, if the privacy of persons and businesses is protected. So, how can we use technology to mitigate privacy risks and give provable privacy guarantees throughout the collection, processing, analysis and distribution lifecycle of potentially sensitive information?

Agenda

Data Stewardship

9:00 - 10:00

Coffee and Registration

10:00 - 10:30

Opening Session

  • Commissioner of KOSTAT
  • Ronald Jansen, on behalf of Director of UN Statistics Division
10:30 - 11:20

Keynote speeches

  • Keynote speech 1: Mr. Craig Jones, Deputy Chief Executive, Statistics New Zealand
  • Keynote speech 2: Mr. Je Myung Ryu, Presidential Committee on Digital Platform Government, Korea
11:20 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00

Main Panels
Moderator: Mr. Ronald Jansen, Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division

  • Panelist 1: Ms. Nicola Shearman, Assistant Deputy Director, International Relations, UK Statistical Authority, UK
  • Panelist 2: Mr. Kyu Chang Ko, Head of the United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), Korea
  • Q & A: Discussion with Keynote speakers and panelists
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break
All participants are invited

13:30 - 15:00

Session 1

Data Stewardship
Chair: Ms. Nicola Shearman, Assistant Deputy Director, International Relations, UK

  • "The Five Workstreams of the UN Working Group on Data Stewardship" - Mr. Ronald Jansen, Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division
  • "Data Governance" - Mr. Craig Jones, Deputy Chief Executive, Statistics New Zealand
  • "Understanding Data Stewardship: Global and regional efforts" - Ms. Julieth Solano, Colombia
  • "Government Integrated Database: Government Big Data" - Mr. Ariunbold Shagdar, Director, Census and Data Analysis, NSO Mongolia
  • Q & A: Discussion with the speakers
15:00 - 15:10

Coffee break

15:10 - 16:40

Session 2

Data Stewardship in Times of Crisis
Chair: Ms. Rikke Munk Hansen, Chief, Economic and Environment Statistics, Statistics Division, UN ESCAP

  • "Cooperation During Crisis: A Cross-National View on National Statistical Organisations and Data Stewardship in Times of Crisis" - Mr. Matjaz Jug, Head of CIO Office, Statistics Netherlands & Ms. Crystal Sewards, Manager, Office of the Chief Data Officer, Statistics Canada (remotely)
  • "Data Stewardship: State of the work in Switzerland" - Dr. Raphael De Fondeville, Senior Data Scientist, FSO Switzerland
  • Mr. Keping Yao, UNPOG/DESA
  • Mr. Incheon Park, Deputy Director, Register-based Statistics Division, Statistics Korea
  • Q & A: Discussion with the speakers

Secure Sharing of Data

9:20 - 10:50

Session 3

Guide on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Chair: Mr. Ronald Jansen, Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division

  • Mr. Matjaz Jug, Head of CIO Office, Statistics Netherlands
  • Dr. Jack Fitzsimons, CTO, Oblivious.ai., Ireland
  • "Pathogen Genomics Data Sharing" - Ms. Soyean Kim and Dr. William Hsiao, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Q&A with speakers
10:50 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 4 - Korea Session

Case Study of Data Security and Linkage in Korea
Chair: Dr. Yong-Chan Jung, Head of Center for Data Analysis and Forecasting, Korea Information Society Development Institute

Speakers
  • Mr. Kyeongwon Choo, Deputy Director, Statistical Data Planning Division, Statistics Korea
  • Mr. Jihoon Cho, Director, Security and Privacy Research, SAMSUNG SDS, Korea
  • Dr. Kui Sun Cho, Professor, Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, Korea
Discussants (Panels)
  • Dr. Yoon Sik Park, Head of Personal Data Secure Usage Support Team, Korea Internet and Security Agency
  • Dr. Sungkyu Jung, Professor, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Korea
  • Q&A
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break
All participants are invited

13:30 - 15:00

Session 5

Use cases
Chair: Dr. Jack Fitzsimons, CTO, Oblivious.ai., Ireland

  • "Differential Privacy for the Swiss Poverty Statistics" - Dr. Raphael De Fondeville, Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland
  • "Measuring the effectiveness of an eHealth solution using Private Set Intersection" - Mr. Matjaz Jug, Head of CIO Office, Statistics Netherlands
  • "Privacy preserving machine learning: a use case with Federated Learning approach" - Mr. Massimo De Cubellis, ISTAT (remotely)
  • "Synthetic Data at the Office for National Statistics" - Mr. Owen Daniel, ONS, UK (remotely)
  • Q&A with speakers
15:00 - 15:10

Coffee break

15:10 - 16:40

Session 6

Legal aspects of PETs
Chair: Mr. Matjaz Jug, Head of CIO Office, Statistics Netherlands

  • "The Overview of the UN Guide on Legal Aspects of PETs" - Dr. Mayank Varia, Boston University (remotely)
  • "Integrating Legal and Technical Reasoning for the Analysis of PETs" Ms. Alexandra Wood, Harvard Law School, (pre-recorded)
  • "Sharing Sensitive Department of Education Data Across Organizational Boundaries Using Secure Multiparty Computation: Legal Issues" - Ms. Stephanie Straus, Georgetown University (pre-recorded)
  • Mr. Taeeon Koo, Attorney, Lean Law Firm, Korea
  • Ms. Nazirah Ibrahim, DOS Malaysia
  • Q&A with speakers
16:40 - 17:00

Closing ceremony

  • UNSD: Mr. Ronald Jansen
  • KOSTAT: Hyangwoo Jung, Director-General, Bureau of Planning and Coordination, Statistics Korea

Cultural Program

10:00 - 12:00

Korean Traditional Cultural program

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch will be provided for all participants
(Pre-registration is required.)

13:30 - 15:30

Korean IT and Data related exhibitions