Transcript United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Project: Supporting effective use of information and communication technology in population census operations Steven Vale, UNECE.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Division
Project: Supporting effective use of
information and communication
technology in population census
operations
Steven Vale, UNECE
Contents
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Background
Project plans
UNECE involvement
Progress and next steps
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Background
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Project led by UN-ESCAP
Funding from Russian Federation
2 year duration
Technical expertise from UNECE
Project goal:
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The 2010 round of population and housing
census data become available faster, in higher
quality, and for wider audiences than
previously
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Project Plans – Output A
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National statistical offices are aware of the specific
benefits that they can obtain from using appropriate
information technologies in their census operations
and have assessed their priorities
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A.1 Assessment of the use of technology among
participating countries and availability of expertise
A.2 Technical inception workshop to identify areas where
the exchange of census-related ICT expertise is feasible
and most useful and to match the needs with available
expertise
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Project Plans – Output B
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Specific census IT management, evaluation and
implementation knowledge and expertise are
available for participating countries
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B.1 Facilitate visits, staff exchanges and study tours for
technical staff of statistical/census offices to learn from
implementation of IT in advanced offices
• B.2 Conduct technical advisory missions on censusrelated technologies, including documentation and
archiving census data and metadata and sharing them
with the public
• B.3 Accumulate an information and knowledge repository
on census ICT and publish its key content on the web
• B.4 Concluding workshop to share the project findings
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UNECE Involvement
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Census expertise:
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Paolo Valente
Information technology expertise:
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Marlen Jigitekov
• Steven Vale
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Links to other UNECE work
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Software sharing
• Generic Statistical Business Process Model
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Progress and Next Steps
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Project manager appointed: Igor Uliyanov
Assessment of the current use of
technology has started
Technical inception workshop is being
prepared
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[ Possibly 14-16 July in Novosibirsk ]
UNECE has opened a wiki to store project
documents and good practices
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Questions and Comments?
[email protected]
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