1. Modernization Committee on Products and Sources: Achievements and Follow-up
4th High -Level Group Workshop on the modernization of Production and Services, Geneva November 2014

2. Members and participants of the Modernisation Committee on Products and Sources:
Jenine Borowik (Australia) Chair
Julie Trépanier (Canada)
Franck Cotton (France)
Richard McMahon (Ireland)
Stefano De Francisci / Monica Scannapieco (Italy)
Barteld Braaksma / Barry Schouten / Johan van der Valk (Netherlands)
Jean Watt / Amy White / Emma Mawby / Lyn Kaye (New Zealand)
Anna Dlugosz (Poland)
Ashwell Jenneker / Luxolo Lengs (South Africa)
Michail Skaliotis / Martin Karlberg / Pilar Rey del Castillo (Eurostat)
Yuri Gyomai / David Barraclough (OECD)
UNECE Secretariat: Taeke Gjaltema / Steven Vale

3. MC Products and Sources: Terms of Reference
Develop access to and use of the range of data sources needed to support modernisation
Develop products to meet increasing demands of users
Operational responsibility for work on statistical data collection, including maintaining the wiki and sharing ideas and experiences through case studies
Promote collaboration in relevant areas, such as:
Big Data
Access to micro-data
Statistical confidentiality
Open data
Existing activities that will fall under this Committee:
Seminars on Statistical Data Collection
Work Sessions on Statistical Data Confidentiality
Work Sessions on Statistical Communication
Terms of References as presented at the 2013 HLG Workshop.

4. Six priority areas identified for Work Programme:
Big Data
CSPA
Mixed Mode
Mobile Devices
Marketing
CES paper value of official statistics
CSPA and Big Data: provide support to HLG in these areas

5. Main Achievements Big Data Questionnaire & Inventory
Branding of Official Statistics
Survey Communication Value of Official Statistics
Exploration Marketing, Mixed-mode & Mobile devices

6. Big Data Inventory
Official Statistics beginning to experiment with Big Data  Learn from each other and team-up to joint projects
Enhancement of the 2013 Big Data project inventory
Big Data Survey September 2014:
Coordinated between MC, Big Data Partnership TT and UNSD
Questions to NSOs and IOs on :
Big Data Strategy of Organization
Existing and planned Big Data projects
Section on partnerships, data sources and data analysis
Results: 34 organizations and 57 projects
Next Steps:
Update and expand existing Big Data inventory from questionnaire
Continued updating & expanded (e.g. technical information)

7. Branding of Official Statistics
The explosion in freely available data worldwide presents both threats and opportunities for NSOs to:
Maintain relevance
Highlight the value if official statistics
Identify and address the weaknesses
Showcase good examples of communication initiatives
MC produced with two papers and a presentation:
'Marketing the NSO value proposition – a call to action and examples of good practice‘ Paper 62nd CES, Paris April 2014
'Communicating the NSO value proposition – ensuring that official statistics is a well recognized brand‘ Paper & presentation UNECE Work Session on the communication of Statistics, Geneva June 2014

8. Survey: NSOs’ best practices in communicating value proposition
NSOs’ best practices are worth sharing!
Collaboration opportunities are there
Survey activities to communicate the value of official statistics of NSOs to gather information about:
strategies/campaigns to communicate the value of official statistics
research to explore attitudes towards their statistics or to measure the effectiveness of their efforts
marketing and communication activities
Currently: drafting Questionnaire
Next steps:
Coordination with Works Session on the Communication of Statistics
Create inventory on specific projects in marketing and communication
Continued updating

9. Marketing, Mobile Devices and Mixed-Mode
Explorative work:
information gathering
Papers
Examples of applications
Concepts
Share experiences
Involved specialist colleagues
Identifying Opportunities and Future Activities
We’ll get back to that at the end of the presentation and tomorrow with soap-box presentaitons

10. Constraints & Challenges MC
Limited number of experts on each topic
Variety and large range of topics
Not given actual operational control of some activities mandated in ToR
Time constraints (additional to work programme, changing responsibilities)
Friday discussion on these topics (all invited to come)
Operational control refers to the mandate to oversee & Coordinate work sessions and seminars on Data Collection, Statistical Data Confidentiality and Statistical Communication
See priorities and follow-up activities on last slide

11. Way Forward: Changes needed
Mandate in line with capacity & expertise of members
Allocation of time in work programme of members
Strengthening of MC and possible sub-groups with ad-hoc members to concentrate on specific activity
Integration steering group and other active members of Work Sessions on Data Collection, Statistical Confidentiality and Statistical Communication
In original ToR, this MC would have operational responsibility for the Seminar on Data Collection, Statistical

12. Priorities and Follow-up Activities
Big Data: inventory and sharing experiences
Marketing: Create shared resource and communication value proposition
Mobile devices: cooperation to create multiplier
Mixed-mode: integrate multiple sources and validation of statistics
Linked Open Data: integrating data models and structural and referential metadata
Oversee & Coordinate work sessions and seminars on Data Collection, Statistical Data Confidentiality and Statistical Communication
This will be dicussed tomorrow. We have 3? Soap-box presentations.