DIGICOMDIGICOMa European project to innovate in the communication ofin the communication of statistics

"Statistics: helping Malta make Ch i ti K E t t

p gbetter decisions"Malta, 12 September 2017

Christine Kormann, EurostatDIGICOM Project manager

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Why DIGICOM?Why DIGICOM? A new information landscape

Why DIGICOM? Official statistics can make the most of new technologies to better serve users

DIGICOM j t (2016 2019)DIGICOM project (2016-2019)

• Statistics for all: reach not only policy makers and experts but citizens, younger people

• Statistics for each: more targeted products• Statistics for each: more targeted products

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4 areas of work

Innovative and shareable tools

User interaction

Communicationliteracy

Open data dissemination

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1. Engaging more with users

• For citizens: Facebook (November 2016)• For experts: Discussion platform (September

2017)

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www facebook com/EuropeanStatisticswww.facebook.com/EuropeanStatistics

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14 NSIs contributed to pilot phase

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Discussion platform for expert usersDiscussion platform for expert users Survey carried out spring 2017

Platform to bePlatform to be launched in September

Di i l tf f tDiscussion platform for experts

2. Innovative products

• Visualisation of data • Digital publication

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http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/youth/index en htmlographs/youth/index_en.html

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Digital publication

• Life of women and men in Europe • Aimed at large public • Multilingual• Launch 18 October 2017

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3. Open data dissemination

• Assess the potential of Linked Open Data for official statistics

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From Open Data to Linked Open Data?From Open Data to Linked Open Data?"design principles for connecting and sharing machine-readable data "

Tim Berners Lee

Change from "link to file"

to "link to data"

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O t itiChallenges

• Technical

Opportunities

• Flexible means of data dissemination

• Costs• Organizational• Skills

• Enhanced data exploration

• Enables the linking with other sources

EurostatPWC study Malta Workshop

January 2017

Examples

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4. Communication and literacy

• Informing , make statistics more appealing

• Interpreting: help users to interpret the data f eq ent mistakesdata, frequent mistakes

• Teaching: principles of official statistics,Teaching: principles of official statistics, source, statistical concepts

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• For whom? Citizens, media, education system

Statistics for beginners (Eurostat)

Statistical literacy:yInventory of national practices

CompetitionCompetition

Videos

E-learning for studentsInteractive exhibition

Statistics4beginnersStatistics4beginners

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European Statistical Olympics

• Competition targeting secondary school students

• Promote curiosity and interest in official statistics

• Launch on European Statistics Day: 20.10.2017E fi l M 2018• European final: May 2018

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Massive Online Open Course on regions• Partnership with EUPartnership with EU

Committee of the Regions• Educational videos onEducational videos on

Statistics on Regions and Cities Tools used in regional statistics

( l )(atlas, app) Space dimensions in data

(territorial dimensions, regions,(territorial dimensions, regions, nuts)

• Release January 2018

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