About the webinar
The African Centre of Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) will hold the 13th StatsTalk-Africa webinar series entitled Understanding the Role of the UN Regional Hub on Big Data and Data Science for Africa in advancing the work on official statistics on Tuesday, 19, March 2024 from 11:00 to 12:00 EAT via Microsoft Teams.
The webinar will explain an overview of the UN regional Hub on Big Data and Data Science for Africa and showcase the pioneering and award-winning solution presented by the UN Datathon 2023, led by Statistics Ghana. The solution focuses on "Local Access to Information in Ghana: “Localizing SDG Indicators and Computing the Novel Access to Information Index."
The StatsTalk-Africa is a monthly webinar series being organized by the UNECA-ACS to demystify and provide a space for dialogues on data, statistics, and innovative techniques and tools among data experts and users with within ECA, Africa and rest of the world. Demystifying and unpacking statistical concepts mean that Stats Talk will have experienced speakers and practitioners from the region and across the globe.
Speakers:
- Welcome Remarks:
- Mr. Oliver Chinganya, Director, ECA-ACS
- Mr. Yusuf Murangwa, Director General-National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)
- Presenter:
- Ms. Therese Uwimana, Director of Data Revolution and Big Data-National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)
- Mr. Simon Tichutab Onilimor, Data Scientist - Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Moderator: Mr. Issoufou Seidou Sanda, ECA-ACS
Contact Persons
- Mr. Issoufou Seidou, ECA- ACS, seidoui@un.org
- Mr.Yonas Mersha, ECA- ACS, yonas.yigezu@un.org
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