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UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC COMMISSION
FOR EUROPE
CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN
STATISTICIANS
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
STATISTICAL OFFICE OF
THE EUROPEAN UNION
(EUROSTAT)
UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION
FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
ORGANISATION FOR
ECONOMIC COOPERATION
AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
STATISTICS DIRECTORATE
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD/ESCAP/ADB Meeting on the
Management of Statistical Information Systems (MSIS 2014)
Expert Group Meeting
Dublin, Ireland and Manila, Philippines, 14-16 April 2014
Agenda for Manila
Monday, 14 April
Manila-only session
10:30 – 11:30
Opening and welcoming remarks
Agenda and functioning of the meeting
Self-introductions by participants
11:30 – 11.45
Coffee break & Group photo
11:45 – 12:30
Modernization of statistical production and services
Global and regional perspectives
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 15.30
Big Data (i): Official statistics and the use of non-traditional data sources
Giulio Quaggiotto, UN Global Pulse, Pulse Lab Jakarta
15:30 – 16.00
Coffee break (Preparation and testing of video-link with Dublin)
Joint Manila-Dublin session
16.00 – 16.10
Opening of the meeting and adoption of the agenda
16.10 – 16.25
Keynote address – Padraig Dalton, Director General, Central Statistics Office, Ireland
16.25 – 17.30
Introduction to Topic (i): How IT can contribute to changing organizational culture
Discussants: Joe Treacy, Central Statistics Office, Ireland, Joseph Parsons, National
Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Christine Wirtz,
Eurostat
 A Case Study - How IT is Contributing to Changing the ABS Culture – Patrick
Hadley, Australia
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 Information Technology Centralization and Modernization Efforts and the Impact on
Organizational Culture at a Federal Statistical Agency – Joseph L. Parsons,
USA/NASS
 Streamline, standardize and automate statistical data processing – An IMF case study
– Andreas Hake, IMF
17.30 – 18.00
Coffee break
18.00 – 19.00
Topic (i): Continued
 Is IT rationalisation a way to change service culture? – Pál Jancsók, Eurostat
 Factors influencing open source software adoption in public sector national and
international statistical organizations – Brian Buffet, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
 The ICT Change Management at Istat – Silvia Losco, Italy
 OECD.Graph solution - enhancing the graphics production process – Susan
Cartwright, OECD
19.00 – 19.30
Topic (i): General discussion and conclusions
Tuesday, 15 April
Manila-only session
10:30 – 11:45
Big Data (ii): paper presentations

Big Data and Official Statistics in China – Liang Damin and Cheng Jinjing, National
Bureau of Statistics of China
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Big Data and Official Statistics: Analysis of Recent Discussions in Statistical
Communities – Takao Itou, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
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Challenges, Opportunities and Issues on Using Big Data for Meeting Current and
Emerging Demands on Measuring Progress and Development – Jose Ramon G.
Albert, Philippine Institute for Development Studies
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A practice to produce online price index based on BPP (Billion Price Project) –
Jung-Im Ahn, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT), Republic of Korea
Questions & answers
11:45 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00
Big Data (iii): Group discussions
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00
Big Data (iii): Wrap-up of group work and presentation preparation
15:00 – 15.45
Big Data (iii): Group work presentation and plenary discussion
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15:45 – 16.00
Coffee break
Joint Manila-Dublin session
16.00 – 17.05
Introduction to Topic (ii): Standards-based modernization
Discussants: Trevor Fletcher, OECD, Eric Hermouet and Marko Javorsek, ESCAP
 Statistical Metadata Driven eForms – Improved Business Efficiency through
Standardised Automated Statistical Processes – Oleg Volguine, Australia
 Capturing Metadata Objects in Statistical Business Processes and Using them to
Monitor the Process – Deniz Özkan and Güneş İnan Vıcıl, Turkey
 Meeting today’s dissemination challenges – Implementing international standards
in.Stat – Jonathan Challener, OECD
 European Census Hub: A Cooperation Model For Dissemination of EU Statistics –
Christine Wirtz, Eurostat
17.05 – 17.20
Questions
17.20 – 17.50
Coffee break
17.50 – 18.35
Topic (ii): Continued
 ADB/ESCAP Implementation of global SDMX Data Structure Definitions (DSDs): A
pilot project in Asia and the Pacific – Denis Ward and Artur Andrysiak, ADB
 SDMX Implementation Via DevInfo 7.0 in Ghana Community Systems Foundation –
Chris Dickey, DevInfo
 GSBPM and GSIM in Statistics Norway – Rune Gløersen, Norway
18.35 – 19.15
Topic (ii): General discussion and conclusions
Wednesday, 16 April
Manila-only session
10:30 – 11:45
Parallel sessions
(1) Standards supporting the modernization of official statistics:
system-wide implementation
 How IT can contribute to changing organizational culture – Reenesh Latchman, Fiji
Bureau of Statistics
 Toward the Modernization of Official Statistics in BPS-Statistics Indonesia:
Standardization Initiatives and Future Direction – Said Mirza Pahlevi, BPS-Statistics
Indonesia
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 The creation and implementation of an information system «Metadata» – Anar
Akhambayeva, Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics
 Statistical procedure of Thailand developed by the Generic
Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) version 4.0 – Tanes Komolvipart,
National Statistical Office, Thailand
 Building Statistics Hub and Intranet/Dissemination Portal – Nguyen Thi Thu Hong,
General Statistics Office of Viet Nam
Questions & answers
(2) Standards supporting the modernization of official statistics:
application specific implementation
 Management of Statistical Information in Socio-Economic and Caste Census –
Purnendu Kishore Banerjee, Office of the Registrar General and Census
Commissioner, India
 Tablet PC usage for statistical data collection – Lkhagva Myagmarsuren, National
Statistical Office of Mongolia
 IT contribution for the Population and Housing Census 2011 in Sri Lanka – Buddhika
Wickramasinghe, Department of Census Statistics, Sri Lanka
 CountryData: Using SDMX to exchange MDG data between national statistical
offices and international agencies – Abdulla Gozalov, United Nations Statistics
Division
Questions & answers
11:45 – 12.00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00
The way forward for regional cooperation in modernization of statistical production
and services (i): Working groups
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00
The way ahead for regional cooperation in modernization of statistical production
and services (ii): Wrap-up of group work and presentation preparation
15:00 – 15.45
The way ahead for regional cooperation in modernization of statistical production
and services (iii): Group work presentation and plenary discussion
15:45 – 16.00
Coffee break
Joint Manila-Dublin session
16.00 – 17.20
Introduction to Topic (iii): Innovation
Discussants: Marton Vucsan (Statistics Netherlands) and Carlo Vaccari (Istat, Italy)
 On the use of internet robots for official statistics – Olav ten Bosch and Dick
Windmeijer, Netherlands
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 Big Data use cases and implementation pilots at the OECD – Jens Dosse, OECD
 Implementation of GIS technology to support Population Census operations in
Albania – Nexhmije Leçini, Albania
 Dealing with Big Data for Official Statistics: IT Issues – Monica Scannapieco, Italy
 Quality Assurance – Population and Housing Census 2011 – Alma Kondi, Albania
17.20 – 17.40
Coffee break
17.40 – 18.40
Topic (iii): Continued
 The Implementation of E-survey in the Department of Statistics Malaysia – Habsah
Salleh, Malaysia
 Data Management and Dissemination for Censuses and Surveys at National
Institute of Statistics – Kimhor Meng, Cambodia

Open Data Initiative of Government of India – Fostering Innovations, Creating
Opportunities – Shri B.N. Satpathy, India
 Informing a Data Revolution Project – Trevor Fletcher, Paris21
18.40 – 19.20
Topic (iii): General discussion and conclusions
END OF MEETING
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