Machine Learning

Strategic Communication Framework phase 2

Progress

We had an excellent two day sprint in Gdańsk Poland on June 10 and 11.  A special thank you to Statistics Poland for being such gracious hosts to both the sprint and the Workshop on Dissemination and Communication.

Work is progressing well.  We developed some content and have excellent work plans for the remaining work related to work packages 1 and 2.  We also have sufficient and dedicated participants willing to contribute to the work required to complete these two activities.  During the Workshop of Dissemination and Communication, we ceased the opportunity to promote the results of Phase 1 and present the work plans for Phase 2.  This resulted in greater awareness amongst the broader international communications community.  It also resulted in an additional of a new member to the project team.

As for work package 3, we await the outcome of the CES Seminar later this month.  In the meantime, we have begun to gather an inventory of countries engaged in national data strategies, examples of national data strategies and have commitment from a couple of countries to produce case studies on their experience to date.   In addition, we have identified a workplace that we believe can best contribute to this exercise at this time.  We have begun to develop content regarding the considerations NSIs need to explore to ensure public acceptance of this new business model.  

Next Steps

Work will continue over the summer on work packages 1 and 2.   We will await the results of the CES Seminar in a couple of weeks to determine whether adjustments need to be made to work package 3.

Eurostat has agreed to act as an editor on the final draft products and INEGI has agreed to take on the role of producing our final products.   These commitments are very much appreciated by the project team members.

Risks and Issues

As we began work late this year, the timetable is very tight to deliver a solid draft product by the HLG Workshop in November.  However, we believe we have established a workplace that will allow us to deliver a quality product on time.