Agenda
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Country Updates and International Best Practices
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Coffee and Registration
09:30 – 10:00 Welcoming Session
-Khaled AbdelAhafi, Director of the Regional Hub in Amman, UNDP RBAS
-AbdelAziz Almoualimi, Director General, Arab Institute For Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS)
- Introduction: Objectives of the workshop
-Farah Choucair, ADP Project Manager, UNDP-RBAS
10:00 – 10:30 Session I: Briefing on the Arab Development Portal (ADP)
Target audience and partners
ADP database
Working relationship with NSOs
Current scope of work and constraints
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-Farah Choucair, ADP Project Manager, UNDP-RBAS
-Nader Keyrouz, ADP Advisor, UNDP RBAS
10:30 – 12:00 Session II: National Priorities and SDGs Monitoring and Reporting
Identifying and reporting on national priorities in line with the sustainable development strategies of respective governments and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will be affected by the quality of the available data and existing mechanisms of monitoring. Additionally, ensuring a participatory approach and national ownership of national priorities will depend on the ability of governments to communicate these priorities with all stakeholders and on the country’s statistical ecosystem. A main challenge also concerns the availability of the statistics at the dis-aggregated level (such as by age, sex or geographical coverage levels) as the latter is key to designing more meaningful and targeted policies. Here, there is a need to make data publicly available at all levels and to invest in more advanced dissemination mechanisms to make data accessible in an interactive manner to a wide range of users.
- Briefing on overall monitoring framework and mechanism of national review, UN-DESA
- Country updates on national statistical systems and coordination mechanism, Heads of SDGs Unit at NSOs
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Session III: Country presentations on data availability (in relation to SDGs) and, new web-based tools, dissemination strategies, and future plans
This session will address data needs of users and data availability at the national level. Representatives of NSOs are then invited to conduct country presentations on data availability within the SDGs framework, new web-based tools, dissemination strategies and future plans.
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-Ahmad Al- Salboud, General Authority for Statistics, Saudi Arabia
-Manal Hassan Mahmoud Khafsh, Department of Statistics, Jordan
-Najlaa Zeineddine Moussa, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics-CAPMAS, Egypt
-Khaled Abou Khaled, Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestine
-Nisrine Tannire, Central Administration of Statistics, Lebanon
-Bader Shaikan Al-Abdali, National center for Statistics and Information, Oman
14:00-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00-16:00 Session III: (cont’d)
-Rashida Aldali, Haut-Commissariat au plan, Morocco
-Mahdi Mohamed Douhour, Direction de la Statistique et des Etudes Démographiques – DISED, Djibouti
-Inaam Moubarak Moustapha, Central Bureau of Statistics, Sudan
-Mounir Al-Hadi Al-Adl, Bureau of Statistics and Census, Libya
-Rania Al- Mounkal, Central Bureau of Statistics, Syria
-Shahd Layth, Central Organization for statistics and Information Technology, Iraq
16:00-17:30 Session IV: Regional and Global Best Practices
Showcasing best practices in developing data portals and open data initiatives
In this session, leading initiatives of public institutions and regional organizations in designing competitive data portals that are an integral part in monitoring the implementation of the SDGs will contribute to this session. More specifically, representatives of regional and international institutions will present their experiences in enhancing their websites based on users’ changing needs and in line with the 2030 Agenda, brief participants on the data visualization tools introduced to their websites and also provide a brief overview of the structure of their statistical database for data exchange and dissemination.
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-Andrew Dudfield, Digital Service Manager, Office for National Statistics-UK
-TBD, Statistics Sweden
- TBD, Statistics South Africa
- TBD, Brazil
- TBD, Turkish Statistical Institute
- TBD, European Open Data Portal
Wednesday 16 November 2016
How to build a competitive portal?
09:00 – 10:30 Session V: What are the features of an efficient Content Management System (CMS)?
Constant growth in technologies made it easier and cost-effective for the NSOs to choose between the long list of open CMS software available like Drupal, WordPress and Joomla or even explore building their own CMS. Given the technical, human and budgetary resources constraints, this session will explore both the opportunities and challenges that face NSOs in maintaining or developing competitive websites in terms of using most recent technologies, and will discuss the most important features to be taken into account when choosing a CMS for the NSO website.
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- Nader Keyrouz, ADP Database Advisor, UNDP RBAS
-Dany Wazen, ICT Coordinator, UNDP RBAS
10:30 – 12:00 Session VI: Database architecture
Building a web-based statistical data dissemination requires first data gathering from multiple sources (surveys results, register-based data, etc.), then designing a statistical database that will serve the data visualisation, data export, and other task provided by the website. The current trend in database architecture is shifting from relational to none-relational databases. While Session V focused on the content management system, this session will explore the advantages/disadvantages of adopting new database languages and their impact on the website performance from the users’ point of view.
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- Nader Keyrouz, ADP Database Advisor, UNDP RBAS
-Dany Wazen, ICT Coordinator, UNDP RBAS
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 13:30 Session VII: Data visualisation tools: a comparative analysis of current tools and trends
This session will introduce the participants to a range of visualisation tools used by statistical websites. It will focus on the comparative advantage between the tools from an internal (staff) and external (end-user) perspectives. It will also present the steps that NSOs should take in using these new innovative tools and how to implement or embed the tool.
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- Nader Keyrouz, ADP Database Advisor, UNDP RBAS
-Yasser Najem, Senior Statistician, UNDP RBAS
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30 Session VIII: Human resources for a well-functioning statistical website
Creating and managing a statistical website needs a variety of qualifications ranging from the right academic degree to the accumulated experience in developing a database. After a brief presentation of the main competences of the statistical database developer and manager, this session will discuss the question of internal/external sourcing of website tasks that assures the sustainability and the continuous updating of the website.
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- Andrew Dudfield, Digital Service Manager, Office for National Statistics-UK
15:30 — 16:30 Session IX: A questionnaire and a round table discussion on NSOs’ capacity building needs in the field of data dissemination
In this session the participants will be invited to participate in an online questionnaire prepared by the ADP team on the NSOs ‘capacity building needs in data dissemination in light of the presentations made during the workshop. A round table discussion will follow to discuss the main results of the questionnaire.
16:30 – 17:00 Session X: Closing Session
- Recommendations and ways forward.
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- Farah Choucair, ADP Project Manager and Social Cohesion Specialist, UNDP RBAS
-Nader Keyrouz, ADP Database Advisor, UNDP RBAS