Input Privacy-preserving Techniques

Progress

In November, the results of the project, where completed, were presented in the IPPT seminar. The most important conclusions are presented as well as the results of the different tracks.
The first version of the public Wiki has been set up. Agreements have been made about finalizing the documentation.
17 responses were received to the public consultation. It has been decided to extend this consultation until 15 January. Responses are still expected.

Next Steps
The different tracks complete their reporting. These are then included in the public wiki. The UNECE Secretariat will guide these activities. A joint meeting with the UN petlab is planned in January to discuss the results and pass the baton.

Risk and Issues
Issue	Mitigation

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Meta Academy for the Modernization of Official Statistics

Progress

The results of the project were presented by its project managers, Kate Burnett-Issacs (Statistics Canada) and Eric Anvar (OECD). The main goal was to initiate a framework and forum to facilitate co-creation and reuse of training across NSOs by unleashing the creation and use, at scale, of open digital assets to boost employee upskilling. Based on national experiences and existing initiatives, the main barriers for effective training were identified. Further insights were obtained through experiment on the co-creation of a training on Git and version control. The main conclusion was that without a shareable and accessible platform or method to host training, content and delivery cannot go anywhere. As mentioned earlier, a Meta Academy seminar was held following the HLG workshop, on 24 November.

News from the Groups
Blue-skies Thinking	Identifying Topics/Opportunities	CONTINIOUS	Ongoing.
	Rapid survey	IN PROGRESS	This has been shelved pending further interest.
	Digital Twins	IN PROGRESS	Ongoing.
	Statistical Cloud Use	IN PROGRESS	Awaiting EB approval of project before proceeding.
	Other
Applying Data Science and Modern Methods	Scoping and planning of work	IN PROGRESS	Completed with eight potential topics identified. Three of them were selected as the activities for 2023 (see below)
	Data Editing	IN PROGRESS	A use case template and some guiding questions have been prepared, together with one use case from the ABS, one from StatCan and one from INE (see here). The team has discussed with the Chair of the Organising Committee of the Data Editing Expert Meeting for collaboration. The team is currently reviewing the use cases and revising the use case template to clarify what is expected from the use case and to improve the consistency.
	Modeling	IN PROGRESS	A use case template and some guiding questions have been prepared, together with two brief use cases from the INEGI, one from StatsCan, one from the IMF and one from the ONS (see here). The team is currently reviewing the use cases and revising the use case template to clarify what is expected from the use case and to improve the consistency
	Responsible AI	IN PROGRESS	A literature review that summarizes the experience of different NSOs on responsible AI/ML is being conducted (see here). A draft document has been created to facilitate the preparation of the international framework (see here). The team is currently reviewing the guiding principle on ethical purpose and public good
	Other	There is no Chair of the group yet. The Group will recruit members of the ML group to the relevant task teams. While members are open to new ideas, they suggested to focus on the three task teams unless there are more resources
Capabilities and Communication	Future of work	IN PROGRESS	Work is going as planned. Next meeting will be in January 2023, to scope work of the team.
	The Job of the Future	IN PROGRESS	Work is going as planned. Next meeting will be in January 2023, to scope work of the team.
	Reaching Young People	IN PROGRESS	Work is going as planned. Next meeting will be in January 2023, to scope work of the team.
	Ethics Management (Data and Business)	IN PROGRESS	Work going as planned. Next meeting is set up on 25 January, where work plan for 2023 will be discussed. There also be CES seminar on social acceptability and data ethics in June 2023, UK and Canada will be leading it's preparation. Team is planning face to face meeting on ethics in September 2023.
	Market Research, Digital Marketing & Communication strategies (Strategic Communication Framework follow-up)	IN PROGRESS	Work is going as planned. Next meeting will be in January 2023, to scope work of the team.
	HRMT Workshop 2022	COMPLETED
	Other
Supporting Standards	GSIM Review	IN PROGRESS	Work ongoing as planned. For details, please check our Github group @ https://github.com/UNECE/GSIMRevision/ The Task Team also planned its main milestones for 2023. Task Team will produce its final results in June 2023, as originally planned.
	Core Ontology for Official Statistics phase 2	IN PROGRESS	Work ongoing as planned. Technically the Task Team finishes its activity by end of this year, closing with the public review. The review was ongoing until 25 November. For details, please check the COOS public review material @ https://linked-statistics.github.io/COOS/coos.html In 2023, the COOS will continue, the exact roadmap and milestones still to be finalised at the very beginning of 2023.
	GSBPM Task	COMPLETED	The Task Team has completed its activities. Results are available here: GSBPM Tasks
	SDMX-DDI-GSBPM	IN PROGRESS	Work ongoing as planned. For details, please check our Google doc @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBxK-MSpdi0958ChL5AmKIYeA73REmhPEyOWMvfbrMA The activity will continue in 2023, finishing by the end of the year.
	GSBPM overarching processes	INCORPORATED INTO OUR WORK PROGRAMME OF 2023	Work included in the new Task Team "GSBPM-GAMSO revision" that starts in January 2023 and finishes in June 2024.
	CSPA capacity building	INCORPORATED INTO OUR WORK PROGRAMME OF 2023	Work migrated to the new Community of Practice platform that the Supporting Standards Group starts in January 2023.
	ModernStats World Workshop 2022	COMPLETED	Workshop material, including the meeting report, is available here: https://unece.org/statistics/events/MWW2022.
	Other	*Active Task Teams of the Supporing Standards Group for 2023* (3 active teams at a time): GSBPM-GAMSO revision GSIM revision (continuation) COOS next phase GSBPM-SDMX-DDI Task Team (continuation) *Group focus:* Apart from the Task Teams, the Supporting Standards Group will focus on 3 key topics in 2023 (changes in group management and focus): Involving users, experts more actively: ModernStats Community of Practice Defining the direction for model development, strategic alignment: issue-driven approach, integrated view Improving visibility of ModernStats standards: ISI 2023 and possibly others.
Machine Learning 2022	Global Data Squad	IN PROGRESS	The AIS Group ran a workshop on how to use AIS data. Topics covered included reading AIS data, visualization with H3, and creating polygons for berths. Participants gained practical skills that will help them achieve the group’s research goals. The group will deliver its results at the end of March
	Workstreams	IN PROGRESS	All other Theme Groups completed their activities and have published final reports
	Sprint	COMPLETE
	Capacity Building	IN PROGRESS	ONS-UNECE Machine Learning Group - ran a successful Coffee and Coding session on 2 Nov with Statistics Canada providing an introduction to Git and live demo of Github. Some 213 colleagues from over 40 different organisations attended. Participants were very engaged in the session with many questions asked. 87% of survey respondents rated the session as good or very good. Outcome: building core data science skills for reproducibility and collaboration in ML
	Communications	IN PROGRESS	The group held its end of year webinar on 30 November. Each of the seven theme groups presented their work across two sessions, the first focussing on ML applications, and the second on ML in production. Around 170 people attended each session. 94% of survey respondents said the webinar itself was either excellent or very good. One piece of feedback received said “For someone relatively new to ML it was inspiring.” (see programme and recording here and feedback here) The group has published a new report providing an overview of its work and key lessons learned from this year’s activities. It has also published a number of technical reports from the different Theme Groups, detailing their research activities and discussions. ACTION: Please promote the group outputs within your networks
	Other	The UNECE will hold an ML conference next year, 5-7 June 2023 More information will be made available on this page. Brief initial discussions have been held with Eurostat and CSO Ireland re their interest in setting up a similar group next year.

News from the Groups
Blue-skies Thinking	Identifying Topics/Opportunities. - So far: Community on metadata and data virtualization Joint Biosecurity Centre and Rapid Survey System Microdata for understanding declining response rates Nowcasting	CONTINIOUS

	Digital Twins	IN PROGRESS


	Mobile survey data collection for climate change	IN PROGRESS

	Other
Applying Data Science and Modern Methods	Scoping and planning of work	IN PROGRESS
	Activity 2	NOT STARTED
	Activity 3	TO DEFINE
	Activity 4	TO DEFINE
		TO DEFINE
	Other
Capabilities and Communication	Future of work toolkits	IN PROGRESS
	The Job of the Future	IN PROGRESS
	Reaching Young People	IN PROGRESS
	Ethics Managment (Data and Business)	IN PROGRESS
	Strategic Communication Framework follow-up	IN PROGRESS
	HRMT Workshop 2022	IN PROGRESS
	Other
Supporting Standards	GSIM Review	IN PROGRESS
	Core Ontology for Official Statistics phase 2	IN PROGRESS
	GSBPM Task	IN PROGRESS
	SDMX-DDI-GSBPM	NOT STARTED
	GSBPM overarching processes	NOT STARTED
	CSPA capacity building	NOT STARTED
	ModernStats World Workshop 2022	IN PROGRESS
	Other
Machine Learning 2022	Global Data Squad	IN PROGRESS
	Workstreams	IN PROGRESS
	Hackathon(s)	IN PROGRESS
	Capacity Building	IN PROGRESS
	Communications	IN PROGRESS
	Other

2022 Modernisation Updates

Input Privacy-preserving Techniques

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Next Steps

Risk and Issues

Meta Academy for the Modernization of Official Statistics

Progress

Next Steps

Risk and Issues

Data Governance for Interoperability Framework

Progress

Next Steps

Risk and Issues

News from the Groups

Blue-skies Thinking

Applying Data Science and Modern Methods

Capabilities and Communication

Supporting Standards

Machine Learning 2022

Input Privacy-preserving Techniques

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Meta Academy for the Modernization of Official Statistics

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Data Governance for Interoperability Framework

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

News from the Groups

Blue-skies Thinking

Applying Data Science and Modern Methods

Capabilities and Communication

Supporting Standards

Machine Learning 2022

Input Privacy-preserving Techniques

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Meta Academy for the Modernization of Official Statistics

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Data Governance for Interoperability Framework

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

News from the Groups

Blue-skies Thinking

Applying Data Science and Modern Methods

Capabilities and Communication

Supporting Standards

Machine Learning 2022

Input Privacy-preserving Techniques

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Meta Academy for the Modernization of Official Statistics

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Data Governance for Interoperability Framework

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

News from the Groups

Blue-skies Thinking

Applying Data Science and Modern Methods

Capabilities and Communication

Supporting Standards

Machine Learning 2022

Input Privacy-preserving Techniques

Progress

Next Steps

Risks and Issues

Meta Academy for the Modernization of Official Statistics

Progress

Next Steps