1. Key Policy Questions and related issues:
How to maximize the benefits of data sharing, while minimizing its associated risks, such as confidentiality and privacy issues?
What is the potential of private sector’s data, e.g. big data sources (social media, web data, transaction data, image data) to the production of reliable and timely public statistics?
• How can governments and institutions from the private sector engage in the debate on a new and comprehensive data production ecosystem?
2. Summary of Issues Discussed:
There was overall agreement on that:
Administrative, national statistical and big data need to complementary, one will not substitute the others.
There are still significant limitations in data availabitity, particularly in the African region. In countires with low levels of digitalisation there is also scarcity of big data.
One-off initiatives are not sustainable - such as it is the case of several COVID-19-related data sharing models.
“Data sharing” does not literally mean “sharing datasets”, it might be enough to share statistics derived from those datasets.
No significan points of disagreement were identified.
10. Voluntary Commitment:
A call for voluntary commitments was made by the session moderator, the speakers chose to express them later in the written form.