Meeting of Directors of National Statistics Offices on the Data Revolution in Africa

20-22 January 2016;Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Draft Programme of Work

Day 1: Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Time / Topic / Presenter/Lead
09:00 – 09:30 / Registration, networking and morning tea/coffee
09:30 – 10:00 / Opening
10:00 – 12:30 / The Global Scene
Global Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals. Time for Action and Implementation / Serge Kapto, Policy Specialist, Data for Development, UNDP
Global Statistics. UNSC. IEAG. HLG. / Luis Gonzalez Morales, UNSD
Global Initiatives. International Open Data Charter. Open Government Partnership. Open Contracting Partnership. Global Partnership. … / Nnenna Nwakanma, Africa Regional Coordinator, Web Foundation
Africa Open Data Conference. / Dr. Albina Chuwa, DG, National Bureau of Statistics, Tanzania
e-Community Perspectives. Summary of e-discussion on Solution Exchange / Steven Glovinsky, Guest Moderator
Discussion / Moderator
12:30 – 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 / The African Scene
African Statistics. Agenda 2063 and SHaSA. Charter. African Statistical Institute and Training Centre. / Imani Younoussa, Head of Statistics Division, AUC
Africa Data Consensus. Mapping the Africa Data Consensus to SHaSA and the African Charter on Statistics / Bill Anderson, Development Initiatives, member of the ADC drafting team
Africa and the data revolution. The High Level Conference on data revolution. The concept of data communities and data ecosystems. / Dozie Ezigbalike, Chief Data Technology Section, ACS
NSO Perspectives / Zachary Mwangi, DG, National Bureau of Statistics, Kenya
Draft implementation road map / Yacob Zewoldi
Discussion / Moderator
17:00 – 17:30 / Networking and tea/coffee
Day 2: Thursday, 21 January 2016
09:30 – 12:30 / Breakout Sessions
09:00 – 09:45 / Breakout sessions – 1 / Moderator
09:45 – 10:15 / Break
10:15 – 11:00 / Breakout sessions – 2 / Moderator
11:00 – 12:30 / Report back from breakout groups / Moderator
12:30 – 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 / Contributed Presentations
Contributed Presentation. Capacity building for data revolution / Irena Krisman, Vice President, ISI
Contributed Presentation. Innovations for data revolution. / Shelton Kayanda, Programme Coordinator, PARIS21
Contributed Presentation. Country compacts for data revolution. / Alex Ezeh, Executive Director, APHRC
Contributed Presentation. Role of geography in the data revolution. / Linda Peters, Global Manager, Statistics, ESRI
Contributed Presentation. AfDB support for data revolution. / Oliver Chinganya, Manager, Capacity Development, AfDB
Global Data Revolution. The context of the HLP’s call for DR. The report of SG’s Data Revolution Group – A World that Counts. The SG’s Synthesis Report / Pali Lehohla, Statistician General of South Africa and member of SG’s IEAG on data revolution
Discussion / Moderator
17:00 – 17:30 / Networking and tea/coffee
Day 3: Friday, 22 January 2016
09:00 – 09:30 / Networking and morning tea/coffee
09:30 – 11:30 / Item by item discussion of revised roadmap matrix / Yacob Zewoldi
11:30 – 12:30 / Way forward / Moderator
12:30 – 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 – 16:30 / Preparation for UN Statistical Commission / Joseph Ilboudo, Chief Statistical Development Section, ACS
16:30 – 17:00 / Closing
17:00 – 17:30 / Networking and tea/coffee