Management of Statistical Information Systems – MSIS report 2006 lars Management of Statistical Information Systems – MSIS report 2006 lars.thygesen@oecd.org this is intended to be interactive hoping for input from you re: your needs. examples from the recent past? The title of ws is “easy access” – maybe not so easy October, 2006

Sofia, Bulgaria 21 - 23 June 2006, Themes Changes in statistical processes; Dissemination and client relations; IT service partnerships within NSOs Mel Turner chair 59 participants: mainly senior IT specialists or managers October, 2006

A proposal for sharing tools ONS proposed cooperation on sharing components for statistical data management systems. agree on web services standards for interlinking components. components could be freely exchanged and shared. envisaged the possibility of establishing a consortium for support of the systems sharing October, 2006

Next meeting Tentatively May in Dubrovnik, Croatia Back-to-back with OECD Expert Group on SDMX October, 2006

Themes Governance and management: Architecture: changes in organization; outsourcing; management, acquisition, transfer and retention of knowledge; managing projects; programmes; portfolio; administrative sources and coordination between institutions; relations with international agencies; Architecture: re-usability; metadata driven systems; service-oriented architecture; disclosure control; drilling down from macrodata to microdata; data collection channels; Accessibility and usability: usability testing; understanding users’ needs, client analysis; new audiences; alternative ways of visualisation; geography; alert services; using visualisation as a part of search process; public search engines (Google, etc.). Preparation to start now Organising committee UNECE, Eurostat, OECD, NSIs October, 2006