1. Innovating the gaps away
From data revolution to
country solutions
Geoffrey Greenwell
PARIS21, Technical Coordinator

2. Data Gaps
have been
around
for a while…

3. Introduction Innovations as a supply and demand issue
Demand: Statistical systems looking to innovate
Supply: A pool of more and more solutions
How to deal with imperfect market: Bringing innovators and innovations together
Country implementation
PARIS21 Innovations Market
Ad 1:
- Some countries’ NSOs innovate successfully  Colombia
Private Sector often innovation provider
Ad 2:
- Many NSOs: No capacity for innovation assessments
- Many innovators: No capacity for NSO needs assessments

4. Demand side diagnostics
Open Data Watch
Open Data INventory
US Census Bureau
Tool for Assessing Statistical Capacity
EUROSTAT
Eurostat Snapshot
AfDB
Country Statistical Profiles
World Bank
Statistical Capacity Indicator
UNECA
African Statistical Development Index
IDB
Tool for Assessing Statistical Capacity
PARIS21
Metabase …
……..
A lot of assessments and assessment frameworks out there, but where do they lead to?
Knowledge per se does generally not lead to desirable behaviour!
Assessments vary in scope, focus and comprehensiveness
Many assessment publish neither question-specific nor country-specific results online
The result is a patchy blanket of statistical capacity with very limited comparability

5. Solution supply: Innovations Inventory
“The Crowd”
by:
- geography
- sector
- innovation type
innovation.paris21.org
- The Innovations Inventory is a collection of innovations from various areas of development data, e.g. an education management information system, a remote-sensing approach census preparation or an alternative funding model for an NSO.
- Innovations are currently predominantly collected by PARIS21 staff. The inventory is, however, open for public participation. Crowdsourced innovations are quality-checked by PARIS21 staff before publishing.
- Since the innovations market is incentive-compatible for both innovators as a free advertising platform and innovation seekers to gain a market update, we expect the crowdsourcing element will grow stronger over time.
- Currently, innovations are structured by geography (region/country), by type of innovation (technological/organizational/institutional with sub-categories), by sector (categorized as the data.worldbank.org topics from Agriculture to Urban Development) and GSBPM (8 phases/44 sub-phases)
- Case studies with government involvement as good practice are prominently displayed
- Site is still in beta and is currently undergoing major revision
Development Data Innovations

6. GAMSO Introduced by the UNECE HLG-MOS in March 2015
:= Generic Activity Model for Statistical Organizations
Introduced by the UNECE HLG-MOS in March 2015
Centerpiece of the PARIS21 Innovations Market is the mapping of challenges NSOs face to potential solutions. Even though that kind of a mapping will always be subjective to a certain degree, we try to make it as transparent as possible. First, we use a widely recognized generic framework for it, the GAMSO. Second, we derive questions from the description of the GAMSO categories and “ask” them to both challenges and innovations. The description and questions will be publicly available on our website.
1. UNECE HLG MOS = UNECE High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Statistics
2. GAMSO = Detailed enough for experts, wide enough for top-level management, generic enough for cross-country use
3. Why not GSBPM? Too narrow, since relevant management (governance) aspects not covered
4. Why not CSPA? Focussed system integration, further down the road for developing countries’ NSOs
5. Why not DQAF et al.? Often focussed on a certain set of national statistics (macro-economic statistics, output-oriented etc.)  our approach is a process-oriented complement to that
Extends statistical production with management aspects

7. PARIS21 Innovations Market
Cross Over Platform for matching assessments to solutions
CHALLENGES
Registry for Questions on Statistical Capacity
SOLUTIONS
Innovations Market as a matchmaker
Innovations Market as consultation tool during NSDS process
STEP

8. STEP StatCap Registry := STatistical Evaluation and Progress
country-tailored
baseline questions
StatCap Registry
STEP is designed to address the patchy blanket of comprehensive statistical capacity assessments with tailored country follow-ups. This means, countries are only asked questions that have not been covered by existing exercises. A baseline of statistical capacity questions are derived from the existing major StatCap assessments. Therefore a central registry of statistical capacity questions is created and maintained.

9. STEP into country consultation and solutions
Deeper and broader
evaluation of
gaps in the data production
process and
applying innovations
…through the Innovation
Marketplace

10. The End
innovation.paris21.org