9th SDMX Global Conference: Side event "Making change happen - practical examples and lessons learnt"
Hybrid Event, 30/10/2023
The 9th Global Conference on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) took place from 29 October to 2 November 2023 in Manama, Bahrain on the theme of "Empowering Data Communities".
The Global Conference is a bi-annual event for the official statistics community worldwide to share information on recent and upcoming SDMX developments.
The 2023 event, co-organised by the SDMX Sponsors and the Bahrain Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) with support of ESCWA and Banca d’Italia, brought together a broad range of official statistics compilers and users from national, regional and international agencies, academia and the private sector.
The five-day programme consisted of three days of plenary sessions followed by two days of SDMX capacity building and training with tracks for both beginners and experts.
New for 2023 was the first SDMX hackathon bringing together developers, statisticians and data experts to collaborate on innovative solutions for real official statistics use cases.
For a full list of presenters, presentations, and session recordings please visit the 9th SDMX Global Conference website.
Side event "Making change happen - practical examples and lessons learnt" (30 October 2023)
Can the community model be scaled up to meet the increasing demand for capacity building and resource investment?
Jonathan Challener, SIS-CC's Community Manager, provided some insights into why change to approaches of the past is necessary. Yves Jaques, Chief of the Data Frontier and Technology Unit at UNICEF, led the panel discussion that followed, highlighting the need for better coordination and a holistic view of the data lifecycle to harness the true value of SDMX.