Invited Paper Session at the World Statistics Congress 2023
In the past years, data have been put in the spotlight. Indeed, policy makers and citizens have been asking for more and more data to understand and monitor the development of the 2030 Agenda, the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. However, nowadays, attention spans are extremely short and facts are now competing with attractive fake news.
So how can data producers innovate to share high-quality and reliable data to the general public? Which tools can be used to catch the information of citizens and provide the information that might help them in their day-to-day life? What do citizens need from official statistics?
This session will bring two data producers (national statistical office, org. which does great data visualizations) to share their good practices in reaching out to the general public and two data users (parliament and administration representatives to share what they need and what is attractive to the public.
Speakers:
Chair: Benjamin Rothen – Ambassador, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Keynote speech: Why is data literacy crucial to our world?
Panellists:
- Miosotis Rivas Peña, Chief Statistician, Dominican Republic
- Georges-Simon Ulrich, Chief Statistician, Switzerland & Vice-chair of the UN Statistical Commission;
- Canadian administration representative (tbc)
- Daniel Lapidus, Managing Director and Founder Data Story Sweden
- One more person (tbc)