Logistics
Programme
1Regions refer to UN regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, and Oceania.
2Data community refers to the following nine non-mutually exclusive groups used for convenience in many Forum communications: (1) Academia / Professional association, (2) Civil society / Non-Governmental Organization, (3) Donor / Philanthropic foundation, (4) National Statistical Office (NSO), (5) National Statistical System (NSS), (6) National Geospatial Information Authority (NGIA), (7) Other Government, (8) Media, Private sector, (9) United Nations and other international agency.
The action to be taken depends on the format decided by the Programme Committee.
For announcements, demos and short-talk formats, the Programme Committee recommends in their decision to combine 3-5 proposals in the same format into the same session timeslot, each proposal has then equal time in the session. The Committee encourages those proposers in a combined decision to discuss selecting a host to introduce each proposal in the session and submit a single entry for the published programme which covers the combined proposals.
For panel discussions and learning lab formats, the Programme Committee recommends in their decisions for proposals strongly scored but overlapping in topic be merged as follows:
- If a merger decision involves two proposals, then this requires two organizers to work together to resubmit a merged proposal.
- If a merger decision involves more than two proposals, then one or two of the proposers are established as coordinators and asked to consider speakers or talking points from the other proposals. Again, all proposers part of the merger decision should work together for the coordinators/organizers to resubmit the proposal.
The Programme Committee reserves the right to request further adjustments to any session, especially to balance gender, region, and data community representation across the parallel programme in general and session in particular.