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reflect online transactions, tourism statistics to reflect online bookings,
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d) Developing methodologies to use big data in producing quick and
affordable (often based on real time data) indicators to complement
current economic, social and environmental indicators that might be
expensive and less frequently collected to support decision making
and inform policies, and,
e) Capitalize on international efforts to address the growing impact of
globalization on reducing the ability of national organizations,
especially in developing countries, to access big data produced by
multinational companies (telecommunication, online shopping, and,
transportation networking companies) and insuring the use of these
data bases in addressing development goals including the sustainable
development goals.

Institutional reform and governance – In a new era dominated by emerging
technology breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things,
cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, and nanotechnology,
institutional reform and governance of the new statistical system should
consider the following:
a) Create a consensus on national legislations and code of conducts
among all stakeholders to create a win-win formula for cooperation
that create value from creating and analyzing big data while
maintaining trust in data as a source of evidence-based decision
making.
b) Adopt an inclusive approach in the governance process to engage all
stakeholders including (but not limited to) national statistical offices,
governmental organizations producing data, private sector companies
engaged in generating and analyzing big data, academic institutions,
and, relevant professional associations.
c) Enforce that private companies producing and analyzing big data
adopt and abide by statistical ethical considerations.
d) Develop a full fledge eco-system that allows the use of big data and its
integration with traditional sources of data to create public knowledge
and to inform policy on the national and local level.

It is obvious that the world of statistics is changing and present players in
the developing countries have to step out of there comfort zone to create an
eco-system that is more inclusive, more efficient and more future looking. The
current producers of statistics should move away from data autocracy to data
democracy and should give up on maintaining the status-co as no room for
nostalgia.

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