ESAC Seminar 2018 - Registration

08:15 to 08:45 Registration
  • Note: please register as soon as possible, limited seats available

ESAC Seminar 2018 - Opening

08:45 to 09:15 Opening
  • Eugenio Gaudio, Rector of La Sapienza
  • John Verrinder, Head of Unit Eurostat
  • Giovanni Alfredo BARBIERI, Director Istat
  • Monica Pratesi, President of Italian Statistical Society
  • Maurizio Vichi, Head of the Department of Statistical Sciences

SESSION 1: Timely and meaningful indicators for describing and identifying new developments in our Society in the Information Age

Our societies are evolving quickly, often in unexpected ways. The Information Age has affected - and is still changing - our economies, our industries as well as our societal structures and way of living. This session invites the participants to highlight - mainly from a users’ perspective - specific topics, such as sustainable development, migration, the changing workforce, business developments and/or ecological challenges and how these would require adaptation to the content (new or adapted indicators, breakdowns) of existing European monitoring and indicator systems.

09:15 to 09:20 Session opening
  • Monica Pratesi, President Italian Statistical Society
09:20 to 09:35 Indicators sets at Eurostat
  • John Verrinder, (Head of Unit, National accounts methodology. Indicators, Eurostat)
09:35 to 09:50 Istat’s Annual Report: experimental classifications and new analyses
  • Giovanni Alfredo Barbieri, (Director ISTAT)
09:50 to 10:05 The three faces of immigration: the perspective of society, immigrants and the general public
  • Ineke Stoop, (Chair ESAC)
10:05 to 10:20 Developing Financial statistics beyond 2020
  • Alessandro Bonara, Head of Statistical Applications and Tools Division of the European Central Bank
10:20 to 10:35 Discussant
  • Tasos Christofides, University of Cyprus
10:35 to 10:45 Floor discussion
10:45 to 11:15 Coffee break

SESSION 2: Role of new technologies and geospatial indicators in the Information Society.

Big data has given a boost to the global information storage capacity and how this has led to new technologies and applications. All this has intensively changed our society. While we are all – often unknowingly -– contributing to ‘feeding’ these new technologies and applications (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) we are at the same time also consumers benefiting from quick and easy access to digital information. Big data and new technologies (i.e. smart systems, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain) and applications (i.e. e-Government, e-Health) are used by many operators in public administrations, industries, health care, education and media. This creates opportunities (speed, efficiency, democratisation) but also challenges (security, data protection) for European statistics. Special attention is given to the geographical component of European statistics1 and its development in the Information Age.
The objective of this session is to allow a discussion between methodologists, data producers and users of new options – created by new technologies and applications – for better and more timely development of indicators.

11:15 to 11:35 Opening Session
  • Chair: Tasos Christofides, (University of Cyprus)
11:20 to 11:35 Sustainability and drift of indicators based on new data sources
  • David Hand (Imperial College London)
11:35 to 11:50 Geocoding and spatial modelling to geo-enable SDG indicators
  • Julien Gaffuri (EUROSTAT)
11:50 to 12:05 How can geo-spatial data and remote sensing can help to measure Sustainable Development Goals
  • Lewis Dijkstra (Head of the Economic Analysis Sector at DG for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission)
12:05 to 12:15 Discussant
  • Giuseppe Arbia, (Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore)
12:15 to 12:30 Floor discussion
12:30 to 13:30 Light lunch

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/overview

Session 3: Selection and synthesis of indicators for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Innovative methodologies and applications.

The establishment of indicators for the SDGs and related targets is fully under way. This concerns the setting of indicators at a global level - in the context of the ‘Transforming our world: 2030 agenda' - and also the establishment of EU SDG indicators, a first set of which was agreed last year by the European Statistical System (ESS) and released 2 in November 2017. The objective of this session is to provide a short overview of the work accomplished but especially to present and discuss the latest ideas in the establishment of SDG indicators created by new technologies and applications.

13:30 to 13:35 Opening session
  • Chair: Gabriella Vukovich (Hungarian Statistical Office)
13:35 to 13:50 Sustainable development metrics – Here and today, tomorrow and elsewhere
  • Walter Radermacher (President FENStatS)
13:50 to 14:05 Inspiration for the SDGs from the Social Scoreboard of the European Pillar of Social Rights
  • Michaela Saisana (JRC, ISPRA)
14:05 to 14:20 A dashboard to monitor agricultural sustainability
  • Pietro Gennari (FAO)
14:20 to 14:35 Synthesis of indicators for Sustainable Development Goals: a systemic view
  • Filomena Maggino (Sapienza University of Rome)
  • Maurizio Vichi (Sapienza University of Rome)
14:35 to 14:45 Discussant
  • Claudiu Herteliu (Bucharest University of Economic Studies)
14:45 to 15:00 Floor discussion
15:00 to 15:30 Coffee break

[2] For more information, see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

Session 4: New ways of communicating indicators

One of the results of the Information Age is the plethora of all kinds of data provided through the Internet. So it is quite a challenge for the providers of official statistics to efficiently attract and effectively communicate with users. At the same time new technologies and applications offer new ways not only to provide the indicators in an effective way to different types of users (e.g. policy makers, academics, media, students, general public) but also to improve the statistical literacy of users. The objective of this session is to allow producers to present new ways of communicating indicators and for users to express their experiences and needs for efficient data access and use.

15:30 to 15:35 Opening Session
  • Asta Manninen
15:35 to 15:50 How to make official statistics attractive?
  • Marko Krištof (Croatian bureau of statistics)
15:50 to 16:05 Journalists as users of official data and statistics: some suggestions for providers
  • An Nguyen (Bournemouth University)
16:05 to 16:20 Eurostat EU SDG monitoring package
  • Nicola Massarelli (Eurostat)
16:20 to 16:30 Discussant
  • To be confirmed
16:30 to 16:45 Floor discussion
16:45 to 17:00 Closing remarks
  • Enrico Giovannini (University of Rome Tor Vergata)