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