Description: The five-day course, delivered by the IMF's Statistics Department in cooperation with the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia Regional Capacity Development Center, will focus on how digitalization is impacting financial sector statistics. The digital revolution in finance is not just a technological shift, but a fundamental transformation of the financial landscape, reshaping how financial services are delivered, consumed, and managed. While offering immense opportunities for efficiency and inclusion, digitalization presents a significant challenge for traditional financial sector statistics: how do we accurately capture and reflect these rapidly evolving dynamics? For decades, financial sector statistics have relied on established methodologies and reporting frameworks built around the activities of traditional financial institutions like banks and insurance companies. With the rise of fintech companies, mobile payments, peer-to-peer lending platforms, digital currencies, and crypto assets, it is essential that statistical methodological guidance underlying financial sector statistics as well as data collection accurately capture these emerging instruments and market participants, crucial for maintaining the stability and effectiveness of the financial system. This workshop will focus on how to reflect digitalization in financial sector statistics, discuss the emerging methodologies and underscore the collaborative effort between macroeconomic statisticians, regulators, policymakers, and the private sector to explore non-traditional data sources. Participants are expected to actively contribute to presentations on country practices and exercises. Peer learning will be an essential element of the workshop.
Target Audience: Mid-level government officials from central banks, financial services supervisors and regulators and other agencies involved in financial sector statistics.
Description: The event will explore the transformative potential of Mobile Phone Data (MPD) in official statistics, addressing challenges NSOs face in accessing and utilizing data from Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). Organized by the UN-CEBD Task Team on MPD, led by ITU, World Bank, Flowminder, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, it will showcase MPD applications in areas such as tourism, migration, and disaster management. Key discussions will include strategies for NSO engagement with MNOs, the MPD Maturity Assessment Framework, and a new practical guide on responsible data access. The event will also highlight insights from a World Bank/ITU project supporting 18 countries in leveraging MPD for policymaking, featuring NSO representatives sharing their experiences.
Organizer(s): Bank Indonesia UNSD UNCTAD AI Generated
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The international high-level seminar aims to help policymakers, statisticians, academics, and others understand the increasing trend of cross-border digital trade. The discussion will focus on policy issues, opportunities, and challenges related to digital trade. It will also address the participation of SMEs and individuals/households in utilizing digitalization to boost economic growth and explore innovative methodologies for collecting cross-border digital trade statistics. It targets a diverse audience of approximately 100 in-person participants, including central bank representatives, government officials, statistics compilers, academics, and private sector members.
Organizer(s): UNSD UNCTAD Bank Indonesia AI Generated
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The international workshop will cover topics described in the recently released Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade, which establishes a framework for compiling cross-border digital trade statistics and addresses the pressing need for accurate measurement in this rapidly evolving domain. Participants will learn about the conceptual framework for statistics on cross-border digital trade and discover sources and methods for compiling digital trade statistics. This event is essential for statistical compilers, policymakers, and data users seeking to ensure that the adoption of digitalization in international trade is well captured and understood.
Description: The digital economy heavily relies on ICT for information management, enhancing productivity supported by ICT goods, services, and trade. This economy is characterized by core technologies (e.g., semiconductors, computers), enabling infrastructures (e.g., the Internet), and digitalized sectors like finance and media. Despite widespread digitalization, traditional economic metrics often overlook digital aspects. The Digital Supply-Use Tables (SUTs) framework addresses this by incorporating digital products and actors into national statistics. The 5th International Seminar aims to equip staff from developing countries' NSOs with skills to produce high-quality digital economy statistics, supporting informed policymaking and sustainable development.
Description: Concept Note Innovations remain an integral part of good practices in the production of economic statistics that are timely and meet the needs of users. Overtime, traditional systems of data collection such as surveys have involved to respond to new business practices such as online trading. As a result, some countries have had to change modalities of data collection for measures of aggregates such as inflation. These measures have included tendencies to scrap the internet for prices to produce consumer price indices. Other countries have not yet adopted such innovations. Similarly, for producing macroeconomic and microeconomic statistics such as gross domestic product (GDP), retail statistics, employment amongst others, countries have embraced different data collection techniques. Besides mere data collection, new industries such as e-commerce have emerged, often facilitated by more efficient payment systems and changes in consumer purchasing habits. While this has improved the timeliness of data produced, it is important that statistical standards are maintained in line with fundamental principles of official statistics. This Stats Café was organized by the Statistics Division of ESCAP and aimed to showcase country level practices and experiences regarding on-line price collection for consumer price indices, purchasing power parities (PPP’s) within the context of the international comparison programme (ICP) and the measurement of e-commerce. By participating in this Stats Café, attendees were expected to: Learn about how some countries are applying new innovations with respect to price data collection for price indices and their associated challenges; Acquaint themselves with some of the approaches and methods for measuring e-commerce. Agenda Moderator: Mr Alick Mjuma Nyasulu, Statistician, Statistics Division, ESCAP Opening remarks: Ms Rikke Munk Hansen, Chief, Economic and Environmental Statistics Section, Statistics Division, ESCAP Measuring E-commerce using market place site, Mr Viktor Suwiyanto, Junior Expert Computer Administrator, BPS Statistics Indonesia Online price collection for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and experiences on the 2021 International Comparison Programme , Ms Ruth Lee, Senior Manager, Consumer Price Indices, Department of Statistics, Singapore Online Price Collection for Consumer Price Indices, Ms Chindy Saktias Pratiwi, Statistician, Directorate of Price Statistics, BPS Statistics Indonesia & Ms Irien Kamaratih Kamaratih Arsiani, Statistician at Integration of Statistical Processing and Dissemination - BPS Statistics Indonesia Question and Answer/Discussion , Moderator: Mr Alick Mjuma Nyasulu, Statistician, ESCAP Statistics Division Closing remarks: Mr Alick Mjuma Nyasulu, Statistician, ESCAP Statistics Division , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Organizer(s): ESCAP ECA Paris21 Open Data Watch Data2x
Description: The Stats Cafe aimed to provide an overview of the current state of gender statistics within the Asia-Pacific region. The session also showcased innovative strategies, opportunities, and relationships current members have built through participation in the Gender Data Network (GDN) activities, particularly in the Africa region, and discussed the value proposition of the expansion of such a network to the Asia-Pacific region. Attendees also learned more about and appreciated the: State of gender statistics in the Asia-Pacific region, including opportunities for improvement and collaboration; Importance of cross-country exchange in scaling innovative gender data collection, analysis, and dissemination strategies; Value of cohort experiences that facilitate continued professional and personal development; and Impact of the GDN and possibilities for potential expansion to the Asia-Pacific region. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: The UN-CEBD Task Team on Mobile Phone Data will be discussing the applications of mobile phone big data for official statistics in the following areas: Dynamic population and census, Tourism statistics, Migration statistics, Displacement and disaster statistics Information Society statistics, Transport statistics. The webinar will also take a look at various projects and case studies from around the world and provide an introduction to the new e-learning course developed by the task team.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2021 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: In today’s world, data has become an essential resource for a nation’s digital development. The latest World Bank Development Report (WDR) 2021 “Data for Better Lives” points to many studies that show that digital transformation based on effective data management can have an impact on economic growth, new jobs creation and social inclusion. Reaping dividends from digital transformation is high on national development agendas worldwide, as both governments and businesses face the need to justify investment in new disruptive technologies and digital infrastructure. A data-driven approach can help public and private sector organizations to better understand, derive, calculate and communicate those dividends and pinpoint areas for further investment. The countries of Eurasia are already making important first strides in the development of data-driven economy. Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan have created their own Open Government Data Portals, which have gathered a total of more than 10 thousand open data sets. Not only citizens can easily access that data but also IT companies can develop applications that can be useful for the public by using the open government data. Georgia provided e-Apostille, a user-friendly digital solution allowing to verify up to 100 types of documents issued by Georgia’s public authorities. eTIR system in Tajikistan allows completely paperless cross-border transit of goods, which ensures the secure exchange of data about the international transit. Ukraine is developing the project “country in a smartphone” and through one official application “Diia” (“Action”) gives access to more than 50 types of data-driven governmental services. Following the keynote presentations of WDR 2021 and Korean data-driven transformation journey, high-level representatives from several Eurasian countries will discuss potential data economy policy recommendations in the panel discussion “Next steps for developing Eurasian Data Ecosystems” as part of this special session within the StrategEast State and IT Eurasian Forum in Bishkek co-hosted by the World Bank and UNDP with the support of the Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility financed Digital Resilience program.
Description: يأتي تنظيم هذه الورشة استجابة لمقترحات وردت على المعهد من المشاركين الذين حضروا الورشة التدريبية التي عقدت عن بعد حول التجارة الالكترونية خلال الفترة 11-13/08/2020، والتي تم خلالها التعرف على مفهوم التجارة الالكترونية وأبرز مؤشراتها، بالإضافة لفوائد التجارة الالكترونية واستعراض سريع لإطار دليل قياس التجارة الرقمية. تنظم هذه الورشة بالتعاون مع مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة للتجارة والتنميةUNCTAD بهدف مراجعة دليل إنتاج إحصاءات الاقتصاد الرقمي (التجارة الإلكترونية) بالإضافة لمعرفة احتساب مؤشرات قياس الداء للتجارة الإلكترونية تمهيداً للخروج بخارطة طريق ترسم معالم قياس التجارة الإلكترونية في الوطن العربي ومدى مساهمتها في التجارة الإلكترونية على مستوى العالم.
Description: The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with SurveyCTO and other development partners will organize a follow-up e-training regional webinar on the use of telephone surveys to collect Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from 20 to 21 October 2021. The e-training regional webinar on the use of telephone surveys to collect CPI data is a follow-up to the reginal seminar on data collection for the compilation of CPI during COVID-19 which was virtually organized during the weeks of 18 to 28 May 2020 and the regional e-training webinar on the application of alternative methods for price data collection to compile CPI which was held from 25 January to 4 February 2021. The main objectives of the upcoming e-training webinar are to provide participants with a brief practical overview of the SurveyCTO software package, to develop the capacity of member States on the use of telephone surveys / Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) in the collection of price statistics, and to identify pilot countries which are currently interested in adopting telephone surveys / CATI in price data collection. Staff who work in the area of price and other related statistics of the national statistical offices of member States, as well as sub-regional and regional organizations will participate in the e-training webinar.
Description: About the session This Stats Café will present the experiences of the National Statistical Offices of Indonesia, Republic of Korea and Georgia in addressing challenges of using mobile phone data in population and tourism statistics. It will also discuss the supporting efforts of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics and the Task Team on Mobile Phone Data. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Online Training of Training of Trainers on Telephone Surveys (Video learning) & (Remote training)
12 Jan 2021 – 28 Feb 2021
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 15 Oct 2021 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP Development Data Group World Bank
Description: Participants are expected to contribute to capacity building on telephone surveys in their countries, and also preferably in their neighboring countries in their region. This training course would help countries conduct high-quality telephone surveys during the current pandemic as well as afterwards, as National Statistical Offices increasingly adopt to new modes of data collection.
Description: Within its recently initiated Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a webinar on “Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage in Enterprises” on 17 December 2020 in collaboration with the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices of the OIC countries. This webinar will cover the following topics related to the survey on ICT usage in enterprises: Concepts and definitions; Methodological base; Classifications; Coverage and statistical units; Survey design; Data collection; Measurement and analysis; and Dissemination The webinar will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. Documents: Concept Note (English)
Description: Within its recently initiated Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a webinar on “Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage in Households and Individuals” on 10 December 2020 in collaboration with the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices of the OIC countries. This webinar will cover the following topics related to the survey on ICT usage in households and individuals: Concepts and definitions; Methodological base; Classifications; Coverage and statistical units; Data collection; Measurement and analysis; and Dissemination. The webinar will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. Documents: Concept Note (English)
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 14 Jan 2021 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Attempts to limit the spread of COVID-19 have taken a considerable toll on the global economy. Our study provides an overview of the labor market impacts of the pandemic among individuals in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. The analysis is based on the data from the first wave of World Bank-supported phone surveys, conducted during the period of May-June 2020. Our headline findings are as follows: First, the impact on the labor market has been heterogenous across countries and is related to the stringency and compliance with government’s containment policies. In Nigeria 38% reported having stopped working due to COVID-19, while in Malawi this number is 6%. Second in all four countries, urban jobs were lost in higher proportion than in rural areas. Third, the commerce and services sectors were most affected throughout the four countries. Fourth, households have experienced substantial economic shocks following the pandemic. Increases in the price of major food items consumed, closure of nonfarm businesses, increases in the price of farming/business inputs, and decrease in output prices were most widely experienced. Fifth, to cope with the considerable economic shocks, households not only draw down their savings but also reduce food consumption. Sixth, after initial checks, phone surveys appear to provide a valid proxy for understanding labor market and income dynamics in these four countries during the pandemic. Lastly, phone surveys could be used more to quickly learn about the immediate reach of government policies to address the labor market impacts of COVID-19. The webinar will discuss these findings as well as upcoming work to continue monitoring the crisis in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Description: The COVID-19 crisis represents a unique moment in history, when there has never been greater unity of purpose across stakeholders, greater need for new ways of working, and greater opportunity to advance collective action on the Sustainable Development Goals and our development agenda. UN Global Pulse invites officers from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in Africa to join a 10 session webinar series focused on the use of mobile data to inform the current COVID-19 pandemic with regard to immediate response, its socio-economic effects, and…
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Description: تعرف التجارة الالكترونية على أنها جميع المعاملات التجارية العابرة للحدود والتي يتم تنفيذها على شكل الكتروني وتشمل (بيع وشراء السلع والخدمات عبر الشبكات الحاسوبية)، أو التجارة التي يتم تسهيلها وتيسيرها رقمياً عبر المنصات مثل أمازون، أوبر، أو علي بابا وغيرهما من المنصات، وقد زاد الاهتمام بهذا النوع من التجارة خلال السنوات الأخيرة، حيث أصبحت تشكل نسبة عالية من التجارة العالمية. تتم التجارة الإلكترونيـة بــين الشـركات التجاريـة، والمنــازل، والأفــراد، والحكومــات والمنظمــات العامــة أو الخاصــة عـن طريـق الإنـترنت، وهي تمكن الأفراد من شراء وبيع المنتجات على نطاق عالمي وعلى مدار اليوم دون تكبد نفس النفقات العامة التي تتم من خلال التجارة العادية وتقوم التجارة الالكترونية على علاقة بين جهتين، ويختلف شكل كل علاقة وفقا لنوع التجارة بينهما.
