United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division International Collaboration to Modernise Official Statistics Steven Vale UNECE [email protected].
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division International Collaboration to Modernise Official Statistics Steven Vale UNECE [email protected] Introducing UNECE Statistics Introducing UNECE Statistics Introducing UNECE Statistics UNECE Statistics: Priorities Population censuses, migration, Millennium Development Goals Globalisation, National Accounts, employment, business registers Sustainable development, environmental accounts, climate change Modernisation Introducing the HLG High-level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services Created by the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010 Vision and strategy endorsed by CES in 2011/2012 Who are the HLG members? Pádraig Dalton (Ireland) - Chairman Trevor Sutton (Australia) Wayne Smith (Canada) Emanuele Baldacci (Italy) Bert Kroese (Netherlands) Park, Hyungsoo (Republic of Korea) Genovefa Ružić (Slovenia) Walter Radermacher (Eurostat) Martine Durand (OECD) Lidia Bratanova (UNECE) What does the HLG do? Oversees activities that support modernisation of statistical organisations Stimulates development of global standards and international collaboration activities “Within the official statistics community ... take a leadership and coordination role” Why is the HLG needed? Before the HLG Now Many expert groups Clear vision Little coordination Agreed priorities No overall strategy Strategic leadership Limited impact Real progress In the last 2 years more information was created than in the whole of the rest of human history! New competitors & changing expectations Rapid changes in the environment Reducing budget Increasing cost & difficulty of acquiring data Riding the big data wave Competition for skilled resources These challenges are too big for statistical organisations to tackle on their own We need to work together A strategy for modernisation Transform vision to reality New sources and products Streamlined processes Managing organisational change to support modernisation and collaboration A strategy for modernisation Transform vision to reality New sources and products Streamlined processes Managing organisational change to support modernisation and collaboration Conference of European Statisticians, June 2012 Using common standards, statistics can be produced more efficiently No domain is special! Do new methods and tools support this vision, or do they reinforce a stove-pipe mentality? Standards-based Modernisaton What will this mean for resources? What has the HLG achieved? 2012 • Generic Statistical Information Model 2013 • Common Statistical Production Architecture • Frameworks and Standards for Statistical Modernisation 2014 • Implementation of the Common Statistical Production Architecture • Big Data in Official Statistics How to work together for minimum cost and maximum benefit? Governance CES Bureau HLG HLG Secretariat Team Executive Board Project 1 Project 2 Modernisation Committee Modernisation Committee Modernisation Committee Modernisation Committee Organisational framework and evaluation Production and methods Products and sources Standards Project n HLG Activities – Engagement Map Get involved! Anyone is welcome to contribute! More Information HLG Wiki: www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas LinkedIn group: “Business architecture in statistics”