1. IMPROVING COLLABORATION AND THE USE OF OPEN SOURCE TOOLS TREVOR FLETCHER MSIS 2013 – International Organisation Session

2. Collaboration is on the increase – driven by HLG aims, MSIS, SAB Recent SIS-CC and example – 50 participants from 21 organisations A good thing – but comes with its own challenges… Additional complexity of project management Aligning priorities of all partners More partners = more management effort… Collaboration

3. Reflects the increasing importance of collaborating on statistical activities between statistical organisations, both at national and international level. Collaboration is a strategic activity for the statistical community and is recognised as such in the aims of the High-Level Group for Modernisation of Statistical Processes (HLG). Collaboration is key to improve efficiency and move towards the ‘industrialisation’ of statistical processing. Collaboration

4. The use of a common platform also enables the implementation of statistical standards such as SDMX to facilitate data exchange, and allows for the creation of joint statistical outputs. Collaboration – the OECD experience

5. Other IO experiences? Future plans? What are the main pre-requisites for collaboration to succeed ? At MSIS 2012 we said “All Software should now be developed with a view to sharing” – are we doing this ? Plug and Play – the role of IOs… A look at the current inventory of software available for sharinginventory of software Collaboration

6. Discussion.. Collaboration