Global issues like the environment, climate change, health, food shortages, economic recovery, and population relocation must be addressed. With supply lines disrupted by COVID-19 and the ongoing military situation in Ukraine, energy and food costs have increased dramatically and millions of people throughout the world are finding it challenging to meet their basic necessities for food, water, and shelter. Typhoons, floods, droughts, and other extreme weather patterns put our society’ adaptability to the test.
Governments must recognize and comprehend the scope of the issues in their nations in order to implement the necessary solutions. They must then keep an eye on whether local and national measures are having the expected positive impact. All of these stages of decision-making need the use of current and pertinent data. Furthermore, a quick response is necessary for growing difficulties. Therefore, statisticians have begun to investigate new technologies and data sources. Big Data and data science can assist businesses in quickly gathering frequent and in-depth indicators.
The United Nations Committee on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics has been holding conferences since 2014 to raise awareness among politicians of the significance of essential data. The topic of this year’s 7th International Conference on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics is “Global Challenges and the Importance of Relevant and Timely Data,” and it will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from November 7 to November 11, 2022.
High-level panels on food security, global economic recovery, and access to pertinent data will be featured at the conference. The conference will also host a number of mini-workshops on topics including using mobile phone data to estimate tourism and demographic statistics or using earth observation data to estimate agriculture statistics.
The 2022 UN Big Data Hackathon, in which 2,000 young data scientists and statisticians will take part both in-person and online, will be another conference highlight. 400 participants from the government, academia, business community, and statistical community are anticipated in Yogyakarta alone.
The Conference’s ultimate goal is to encourage data innovation, launch various new initiatives, and highlight innovative ideas developed by hackathon teams to help tackle global concerns.
