The Conference was organised under the auspices of the OECD Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy in Paris on 5-6 October 2017. The goal of the Conference was to increase understanding of the evolving communication environment and look at the role official statistics should play in it. Below you can find the presentations given at the Conference.
Keynote speech by Rahaf Harfoush
Key takeaways from the Conference
Demonstration by Paul Resnik
Session 1 - Who is our audience and how are they getting their facts?
The session looked at the different ways that information is being used and gave a better understanding of how different audiences are looking for facts.
| Title | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Who is our audience? How are they getting their facts? | George Brock (Former Professor of Journalism, City University of London) | |
| 7 insights about news media habits across different countries | Richard Addy (AKAS) | |
Who is our audience and how are they getting their facts? | Sahir Khan (Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, University of Ottawa) | |
| Providing facts where opinions are formed | Prateek Sibal (Sciences Po) | |
| Providing facts where opinions are formed - A Survivors Guide to a Post-Truth World | Anthony Gooch (OECD) |
Session 2 - Differentiating between fact and fiction: How is "alternative evidence" created and propagated?
This session provided insights on how and where alternative evidence is created, how it spreads, and what is being done to address this important issue.
| Title | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Rumors and Corrections | Paul Resnick (University of Michigan) | |
| Making Facts Matter | Dulce Ramos (International Fact-Checking Network) | |
Fact-checking the French election: the CrossCheck collaborative experience | David Dieudonné (Google News Lab) |
Session 3 - Building stronger social media communities and reaching out to those who matter
This session provided an overview of the most popular social media platforms, briefly described how they work and gave concrete examples of how NSOs and IOS can reach out where opinions are being formed to provide information and correct falsehoods.
| Title | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Knights-Ward (Hootsuite) | ||
Eurostat and the power of social media | Mariana Kotzeva (Eurostat) | |
EDU’s Social Media Strategy | Dirk Van Damme (OECD) | |
| What’s factually happening | Mike Ackermans (Statistics Netherlands) |
Session 4 - Humanising data to tell stories that speak to social media users
This session provided insights on the importance of storytelling on social media and looked at different approaches to help humanise data and statistics as part of the story.