Data can help manage human mobility, says ECA’s Chinganya
The ECA’s African Centre for Statistics (ACS) this week participated in the first ever International Forum on Migration Statistics that was held in Paris, France. The Forum, organized jointly by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) brought together 700 statisticians, researchers, policy makers and representatives from civil society. The two-day event at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris consisted of five plenary sessions and close to forty parallel sessions. “More and more, we are finding that without access to reliable, comprehensive and global data, managing migration policy becomes a game of blind man’s bluff. As we prepare to meet at this forum, we need to consider migration’s human faces, of course. But we have to always keep in mind that we can’t begin to put smiles on those faces until we first grapple with the data,” IOM Director General William Lacy Swing said ahead of the Forum. Topics discussed included improving the production of migration data, global initiatives on migration, public opinion and migration, data innovation and big data and capacity building.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2018-01
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/45946 |
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