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    Data science team from Ghana wins UN Datathon 2023

    Data Science Team from Ghana got 1st Place overall and also the prizes for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa., 22 January 2024 11:00 ,  , Competing against over 400 teams from all over the world, the GSS team got 1, st, Place overall and also the prize for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges at the Datathon was to create “an innovative data solution which tackles local sustainable development challenges”. The solution should accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using open source data sets and have a geospatial element., The Data Science Team produced an interactive tool which provide decision-makers with information about school enrollment, access to electricity and access to information on a local level based on night light data sources and data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census. The Data Science Team of the GSS was formed in 2022 to strengthen the use of Data Science and ICT at the Ghana Statistical Services. During 2022 and 2023, Statistics Denmark has worked closely with the team building skills in R and showcasing how administrative data can be turned into official statistics., Together with Statistics Denmark the Data Science Team created the , Statsbank Ghana,  , forming the base of the Population and Housing Census Atlas., We have made a small video presenting the Data Science Team and it’s work. , Video on the Data Science Team - 3:30 minutes,  , Read more about the Datathon and the winners on the official UN Datathon website here., The Datathon was supported by the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics. , You can find the UN-homepage with datathon essentials here.

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2024/22-01-2024-data-science-team-from-ghana-wins-un-datathon-2023

    Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels

    Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels., 22 August 2023 12:00 ,  , At the same time as Danish experts in Vietnam together with the General Statistical Office (GSO) worked on creating statistical indicators based on administrative micro data, an international conference on “Data ecosystem management, data governance, and data stewardship” took place. Participants were Vietnamese ministries, international institutions, representatives from the private sector and national statistical offices., The full day conference displayed experiences of data integration and cooperation between authorities for the production of high quality official statistics through presentations and discussions. Presentations were held by the national statistical offices of Denmark, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Likewise the international organizations ESCAP and UNFPA contributed with presentations., The conference ended in a lively discussion between the Vietnamese public institutions and the international participants. The conference is considered a valuable leverage to Statistics Denmark’s ongoing efforts to support the modernization and digitalization of the production of official statistics in Vietnam through the Strategic Sector Cooperation program financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., You can read more about the SSC-project in Vietnam here.

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2023/22-08-2023-Pushing-statistical-production-based-on-administrative-data