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Workshop on the modernisation of statistical production and services
Annual report of the UNECE High Level Group on Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services
Pádraig Dalton
June 16, 2015
What am I going to talk about?
Environmental context
Modernisation – broad perspective
Collaboration
Modernisation activities
Modernisation challenges
Environmental context
Only constant - change
Pace of change
Increased user demand
Emergence of global user
Digital age – technology, sources, strategic alliances?
Skills: Re-profiling, outsource?
Availability of skills?
Politicisation – crisis, targets and indicators
Modernisation – Broad perspective
Common perception - Technology, Big Data, CSPA,
Visualisation – but its more than that!
“Modernisation” is a relative term
Needed to broaden our understanding of what
modernisation means
Also need to broaden our minds about what it will
take to modernise
Modernisation - Collaboration
Many active participants on modernisation front
NSI’s, UNECE, Eurostat, UNSD, OECD etc….
Individually we can develop our own strategies and
reactions to the challenges
But really to meet the challenges we must work together
At a global level one of the best examples is HLG MOS
“Collaboration of the willing”
UNECE HLG MOS
• Created by the CES bureau in 2010
• Strategic vision endorsed by CES in 2011/2012
• To oversee and coordinate international work relating to the modernisation of official statistics
• 10 heads of national and international statistical organizations (Australia, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Ireland, Eurostat, OECD, UNECE)
• Engagement goes way beyond formal membership of MOS
• Over 40 countries involved in HLG MOS activities
HLG modernisation activities: AchievementsGeneric Activity Model for Statistical organisations
(GAMSO)Guidelines on privacy, partnership and quality issues
related to Big DataGeneric skills profile for data scientistsValuable experience and learning from sandbox
experiments8 new CSPA-compliant servicesCSPA service catalogue (hosted by Eurostat)
HLG modernisation activities: PlansSandbox: Produce and release a set of internationally
comparable statistics from one or more Big Data sourcesSustainable model for future sandbox-type shared
working environments (sprint in Cork)More CSPA servicesEnhanced catalogueSharing of investment plans: based on capability
enhancementsModernisation Maturity Model: roadmap for
modernisation
HLG modernisation activities – Sustainability
Becoming victims of our own success
This is a positive thing!!
Has implications - structures, governance and perhaps
even shared agreements
What might the future look like
Recent meetings in New York and Canberra surfaced
some thoughts
“Blue Skies” in New York (!!) and Canberra
Branding for HLG products and services to be developed
Establishing a “Statistical Modernisation Community”
Formalising “more or less” what already exists
Open to all
Collaboration of the willing
Statement of intent for subscribers
Identify expectations for those wanting to engage
Provide mechanism for deeper engagement on specific issues
through agreed “manifests” (e.g. CSPA, Big Data)
Modernisation Challenges
Existence of an appropriate institutional setting
Standards based modernisation Development for development sake
Proliferation of actors
How can we collaborate to influence modernisation relevant
standards
Modernisation Challenges
Exploitation of secondary data sources - access,
technology, skill-sets, quality, partnerships
Privacy & Data Protection
Linking secondary and primary data sources
Possibility of strategic alliances
Privacy & efficiency debate
Ensuring public trust in this new environment
Perception is the challenge
Modernisation Challenges
Behavioural – not all about technical challenges
Leadership, openness to change
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
Influencing – but who do we need to influence
Communications - One voice
Challenges – Not all are technical
“Progress is a nice word. But change is its
motivator. And change has its enemies”
Robert Kennedy
We need to be focussed and relentless and yet see, and
address, not just the hard/technical/tangible challenges but
also the soft/behavioural/intangible challenges
Want to get involved?
All outputs on the HLG Website
4 Modernisation Committees
Conclusions
Modernisation means different things to different people
Are challenges and opportunities
Nature of the challenges are varied
Culture
Collaboration
Change
Influence
The Conference is asked to:
Approve the annual report of the High Level group
Take note of the formalisation of the “Statistical
Modernisation Community” and express your views
Express views on how we can continue to develop
coordination and collaboration