Description: The Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) and its Subgroup on Quality Culture hosted a virtual Global Seminar on Quality Culture. The Seminar emphasized the crucial role of establishing and maintaining a quality culture for official statistics within national statistical systems for achieving continuous quality improvements. The Seminar brought together presentations of four countries (Colombia, Norway, Niger and United Kingdom) to showcase best practices in the implementation of a quality culture, addressing challenges, and discussing expectations for the work of the Subgroup on Quality Culture. The event facilitated exchanges on the different dimensions, aspects and approaches to establishing a quality culture, highlighting the interlinkage between quality culture and the national quality assurance frameworks. The Seminar was attended by 48 international experts and colleagues. The presentations are available on the event website.
Description: National and local governments increasingly recognize the benefits of leveraging the power of new data sources and technologies to increase the availability of data for improved policies, decision-making and service delivery for its citizens. In response, both National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and City Data Officers (CDOs) have concentrated on adopting new methods and tools to harness the unprecedented amount of data transmitted by social, economic, and environmental systems. These sources of data, whether from citizens, devices, buildings, and assets are a powerful resource for the management and monitoring of public services such as traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities, water supply networks, waste, and crime detection. There is much that NSOs and CDOs can learn from each other on how they are bringing about a data-driven culture in their respective work. Preliminary results from the Working Group on Data Stewardship’s workstream on Data stewardship and the city data agenda highlight certain enablers to promote a data-driven culture among policy and decision-makers. For instance, putting a focus on creating value from data first and expanding to an enabler of data quality second, understanding whole-of-Government use of data to improve data products, services, and the user experience, and strengthening technical, interpersonal and networking skills to enhance data literacy within Government and leverage the data as a strategic asset. This webinar, part of the UN World Data Forum webinar series, will bring together experts to: Showcase examples of data-driven smart cities for improved service delivery for citizens; Highlight challenges and opportunities of enabling a data-driven culture within Government; Put forward ideas on how to pull the National Statistical Office and city Chief Data Officer communities together to focus on capacity development and experience-sharing.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise an Online Training Course on ‘Culture Statistics’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of Arabic speaking OIC countries on 31 January – 02 February 2022. Mr. Mohammad Khalaf, Director of Sustainable Development Unit at the Department of Statistics (DoS) of Jordan will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Introduction to culture statistics Variables of culture statistics Survey methodology on culture statistics The course 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. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: تهدف الورشة إلى صقل مهارة المتدرب في تطبيق الأساليب الإحصائية المعتمدة في احصائيات الثقافة والترفيه من خلال شرح الجانب النظري، وتنفيذ الحالات العملية، وتدعيم القدرة على تحقيق متطلبات مؤشرات الثقافة والترفيه في العمل الاحصائي، و فيما يخص المفاهيم العامة والبنية الهيكلية للإحصاءات الثقافية، والتعرف على التوجهات المرشدة للأساليب الإحصائية الثقافة والترفيه: ﻗﻴﺎس البعد اﻻﻗﺘﺼﺎدي، بالإضافة إلى ﻗﻴﺎس البعد اﻻﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﻲ ﻟﻟﺜﻘﺎﻓﻴﺔ. وفي هذا السياق، ينظم المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية وبالتعاون مع المنظمة العربية للتربية والثقافة والعلوم ورشة تدريبية عن بعد للأجهزة الإحصائية في البلدان العربية حول احصائيات الثقافة والترفيه لتعريف المشاركين بهذا الموضوع الهام.
