Transcript Who should lead a data revolution?

The emerging Post-2015 Development Agenda
Dr. Johannes Jütting, PARIS21
Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, State of Qatar
National Statistics Day Forum
10 December 2013
Doha, Qatar
Partnership in Statistics for
Development
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A global, inclusive partnership created by OECD,
UN, WB, Eurostat and IMF in 2000
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Strengthening national statistical capacity – BAPS
implementation
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Forum where data producers and users meet
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Global player rooted in national and
regional action
National & Regional
Global
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Strategic planning (NSDS & RSDA)
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Co-ordination (PRESS)
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Advocacy
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Knowledge sharing
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Micro-data dissemination
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Co-ordination of
household surveys
Figure: Countries receiving direct support
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• 5 regional fora on statistical
strategies and NSO co-operation,
with League of Arab States
• Training on data documentation
at the Arab Institute for Training
and Research in Statistics
• Technical advice in developing an
NSDS in a number of MENA
countries, including Qatar
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Why do we need a “data revolution”?
How can it be achieved?
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Why do we need a data revolution?
• Old problems
• Emerging priorities
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New opportunities
Your revolution may not be my revolution!
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Data does not exist
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Data exists, but not in a useable forms for users
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Data exists, in useable forms, but nobody knows
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Data exists, in useable forms, people know, but
nobody knows how to use it
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Data exists, is usable, people know, people know
how to use it, but nobody cares!
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Source: Seeing Like a State, James Scott
Source: Seeing like a state in Africa: Data needed, Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development
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 More use of national data for new goals:
— Jobs
— Education (potentially on quality)
 Disaggregation of existing data to measure:
— Getting to zero poverty
— Impact on women and girls
— Impact on inequality
69th UNGA
 New indicators for new areas:
— Sustainable development
— Governance
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How can we achieve a data revolution?
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Who will lead this data revolution?
What are the priorities?
How do we address the challenges?
A call to action
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Who should lead a data revolution?
1% 2%
14%
21%
National Statistical Systems
Private-Public Partnerships
International Organizations
Business
14%
Citizens
Academia
24%
Other
no answer
11%
13%
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Global partnership on development
data, based on past success
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Expansion of more relevant, and more
reliable data production including
strengthened national capacity
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Support decision makers to make
informed decisions for better lives
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Find new ways to support statistical
capacity and data production
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Private
official
Public
nonofficial
User
Producer
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• Tapping new and unused sources of data
Source: Using ICT’s to shape the post-2015 framework, European Development Days 2013, Orange
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• Independent, non-partisan,
non-profit institute from the
Philippines
• Founded 1985
• Conducts social surveys and
survey-based social science
research
• Reports core indicators every
quarter, whether favourable to
the administration or not
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Growing amount of data
• The global volume of digital data will multiply by a
factor of 40 by the end of this decade
Growing capacity to analyse the data
• From 10 years to decode the human genome in
1993-2003 to 1 week in 2010
Growing ability to store the data
• A disk drive that can store all of the world’s music
costs less than $2000
Source: OECD Project on Data and Data Analytics: Prospects for Growth and Well-Being (http://oe.cd/bigdata)
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Big data
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Privacy
• Applicability of current privacy frameworks
• informed consent
• purpose specification and use limitation
• cross border data flows
Cloud Computing
• Vendor lock-in
• Loss of IT-control
• Security and risk management
Data ownership, control and access
• Open data initiatives
• Data portability
Liability
• The role of data controller, algorithm owner, and analytic user
Source: OECD Project on Data and Data Analytics: Prospects for Growth and Well-Being (http://oe.cd/bigdata)
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• Should NSOs…
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take on a new mission as a trusted third party
whose role would be to certify the statistical
quality of these new sources?
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use non-traditional sources to augment (and
perhaps replace) their official series?
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issue statistical best practices in the use of nontraditional sources and the mining of big data?
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be given legal power to collect personal
information?
Source: OECD Project on Data and Data Analytics: Prospects for Growth and Well-Being (http://oe.cd/bigdata)
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• Crude
• Investments needed
• Complementary : not the same faster!
• Data AND institutions : NSO’s key role
• It’s political – “revolution” versus “digital divide”
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Political will to support statistics at an historic high
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Public/ popular support also growing fast with new
actors keen to support good data - Foundations,
CSOs, private companies
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New tools/approaches create new opportunities
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PARIS21 is at your disposal!
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• Google’s “Flu Trends”
drastically overestimated
peak flu levels in 2013
• Data quality control is
important when dealing
with issues that have
serious implications,
such as national health
Source: OECD Project on Data and Data Analytics: Prospects for Growth and Well-Being (http://oe.cd/bigdata)
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