🌐 Examples
In Ghana, knowing the importance of professional independence, the data pipeline set up in agreement by the partners was one that gives GSS the ability to access the aggregated, anonymized call detail records (CDR) data for the analyses and dissemination of mobility insights. To prevent misuse of statistics on mobility, a steering committee was set up, headed by the Government Statistician at GSS, to oversee use, output, and data dissemination. The steering committee acts as a form of governance also during the project.
In Indonesia, to start the first project for utilizing mobile phone data for inbound tourism statistics, high-level meetings were held often between representatives of the Ministry of Tourism (Deputy Ministers), NSO (Deputy Director Generals of Statistics Indonesia), and operator (Executives of the subsidiary representing the Telkomsel’s data business). At times, the meetings were joined by the Ministry of Communications and Information executives.
The meetings, which went on for six months at the start of the project, established the principles of collaboration and the governance structure that started working during the development and production stage. The steering committee, although not called as such, was called up again whenever significant changes or challenges surfaced in the collaboration throughout later years in the long-standing collaboration.
❗Tips
✅ The steering committee is made up of high-level officials of major stakeholders and regulators and should meet sparingly to decide and provide guidance to the technical committee, which is tasked to discuss and find solutions to most of the data sharing topics.
📖 Resources
A sample terms of reference document for a steering committee focused on mobile network operator data is available here.
⏩ Next actions
Set up steering and technical committees.
- Utilize the committees to discuss and decide on all topics related to data sharing collaboration.