🌐 Examples
When Tunisia’s Institute of National Statistics (INS) decided to explore mobile phone data for statistical needs in migration, they collaborated with the regulator to hold an educational webinar. The objective was to arrange a meeting with all operators to present and discuss the statistical needs and data requirements and then to invite the mobile network operators to a future in-person workshop.
INS Tunisia managed to invite all the operators and researchers in the field to participate to hear why the country was looking at data from mobile networks, how other countries had approached this topic successfully, and key methods behind using such data for statistics. The webinar was a success as all the operators attended the next meetings in person.
❗Tips
✅ Partner in planning the webinar with experts like those from the MPD Task Team of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Big Data in Official Statistics. Several NSOs and international organizations have found relevant speakers for their events through the MPD Task Team.
✅ Leverage global webinars happening on this topic to invite your stakeholders to participate.
✅ Reach out to mobile network operator focal points to explain which expected telecom sector participants are expected and how operators will benefit from attending the webinar before the next steps commence.
📖 Resources
The UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Africa Events page includes a number of webinar recordings focused on mobile phone data: https://ecastats.uneca.org/regionalhub/Events
⏩ Next actions
Decide on a topic for a webinar on mobile phone data.
Engage international partners and national stakeholders to help to organize the webinar.
- Invite all country stakeholders to attend, explaining the rationale and timing of the webinar.