Meeting of the GWG on Big Data for Official Statistics
Organized by the National Bureau of Statistics of UAE, GCC-Stat, the United Nations Statistics Division, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Agenda


Monday, 19 October 2015

9:00
Opening by Trevor Sutton
9:15
Results of the Global Survey Presentation by UNSD
9:45
Progress report and evaluation of the work of the Task Teams
  1. Advocacy and Communication
  2. Access and Partnerships


  3. Big Data and SDGs
  4. Cross-cutting issues


  5. Training, Skills, Capacity-building
  6. Mobile Phone data
  7. Social Media data
  8. Satellite imagery, remote sensing and geo-spatial data
12:15
Lunch Break
14:00
“How can we produce Official Statistics with Big Data and what is the role of the GWG to make this happen?” Presentation by UNSD and Statistics Netherlands
  1. General discussion on way forward:
    • Which statistics or indicators will be produced with Big Data?
    • How are we using Big Data for this? When and where will this happen?
    • How do we transfer the knowledge?
  2. What are the deliverables of the GWG in 2016 to advance this work?
16:00
Evaluation of the working methods
  • Changes to task team structure?
  • Changes to communication?
  • Changes to roles of UNSD, Coordination team and Task Teams?
17:00
Other Business
17:15
Closing

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