Sharing Advisory Board

1. Sharing Advisory Board Report year 2009/2010 Taskforce MSIS 2010

2. Contents • Mission and organisation • Results 2009/2010 • Program of work 2010/2011 • Recommendations by MSIS

3. Governance of SAB Conference European Statisticians MSIS steering comittee Sharing Advisory Board MSIS)

4. Sharing Advisory Board Membership Australia(Alistair Hamilton  Brian Studman), Canada (Karen Doherty, Italy (Carlo Vaccari), Netherlands(Marton Vucsan) (chair), Norway(Rune Gløersen), Eurostat (Antonio Consoli), OECD (Trevor Fletcher), UNECE (Steven Vale), UNIDO (Valentin Todorov).

5. SAB objectives • To formulate proposals with the goal of promoting harmonization of information systems architectures and to enhance the interoperability and the potential to share components within those architectures; • To provide governance models for the development and enhancement of statistical software in an environment of collaboration between statistical organisations; • To assist in the improvement of the statistical infrastructure of countries both withinand outside the UNECE region as required.

6. SAB objectives • To provide guidelines and tools to assess new statistical software tools and components, and report to MSIS Work Sessions on the availability of these tools and components for sharing, as well as suitable governance mechanisms for ensuring the future development of recommended tools and components; • To ensure that tools and components recommended for sharing are made available to all statistical organisations via a suitable portal, and with sufficient documentation and support mechanisms;

7. Operating procedures • Membership and Officers • 7 members from MSIS participants • Balanced specialisms and geographics • Term 2 yrs • Governed by CES bureau or subordinate body.

8. Operating procedures • Methods of work • Bureau of CES will govern. • Proposals to be reviewed by MSIS • Annual report of work done to MSIS • Annual updated Program of Work • Annual report to CES Bureau and request for mandate

9. 2. Program of work Report on 2009-2010

10. RECURRING TASKS (1) • A1. Maintenance of the SAB wiki and website • pilot pages on MSIS wiki • A2. Production and distribution of the newsletter • Two published (ITDG and MSIS) • A3. Software inventory • Initial survey done, in progress

11. A. RECURRING TASKS (2) • A4. Coordination • ESSnet CORA meetings in Luxemburg and Rome • UNECE / Eurostat / OECD Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS) in Geneva • OECD / UNECE Expert Group Meeting on SDMX in Geneva • UNECE Work Session on Statistical Data Editing in Neuchatel • A5. Reporting • Annual report produced

12. B. SPECIFIC TASKS • B1. Project brokerage (Must) • Pilot implementation on MSIS wiki. • B2. Set rules for resourcing projects(Should) • postponed • B3. Collaboration (Must) • B3(i ) cooperation in ESSnet -in progress- • B3(ii) Research possible cooperation models for software development, -in progress- • B3(iii) Research possible governance and management (Should) -postponed-

13. C. ACTIVITIES CONTINUED FROM 2008/9 • C1. Set up administration of SAB • C1(i ) Define subjects the SAB will be the responsible administrative body for. -in progress- • C1(ii) Define a workflow for decision making; (Should) –postponed- • C2. Collaboration • Collaboration with the ESSnet for licencing and judicial issues.(Must) – awaiting CORA- • C3. Outreach (Must) • Initial inventory of existing initiatives (Must) – Version 1 ready-

14. 2. Program of work Proposal for 2010-2011

15. INTRODUCTION • The period covered is the interval between the joint UNECE / Eurostat and OECD Meetings on the Management of Statistical Information Systems (MSIS), therefore the 2010/11 programme of work runs from 27 April 2010 to spring 2011. • Items are prioritized using the MoSCoW prioritisation technique (Must, Should, Could, Wont) to make sure that even if completing the whole programme might not be feasible, the most important work gets done. The MSIS meeting is invited to actively give input regarding this program.

16. A. RECURRING TASKS • A1. Maintenance of SAB wiki and website • A2. Production and distribution of the newsletter • A3. Software inventory • A4. Coordination • Participate in projects • Attend meetings • A5. Reporting • Annual report to CES and MSIS

17. B. SPECIFIC TASKS FOR 2010/11 • New activities • Activities that were proposed in earlier years but were not carried out, but are important enough to get a second chance of being done.

18. B1. Set rules for collaboration projects • B1(i ) Create a proposal for SAB resourcing or funding (Should) • B1(ii) Consider a default proposal for funding (small) collaboration projects to be agreed on by all statistical organizations taking part in MSIS. (Should) • B1(iii) Enhance the possible forms of collaboration with templates and prefab agreements etc. and have them ratified by the MSIS countries. In this way creating an international collaboration will be easy to give form and easy to be approved in different countries if the "mother form" of the agreement has been approved already(should)

19. B2. Collaboration • B2 Keep track of how successful the inventory of existing initiatives and collaborations is and upgrade the guidelines for collaboration models looking at those models that appear to be more successful from the inventory. (Must) • B2(ii) Seek input from MSIS 2010 meeting about possible follow up on the current ESSnet CORA which is producing a first start for a common reference architecture linked to the GSBPM. (must)

20. B2. Collaboration (2) • B2 (iii) Create a mapping of existing initiatives and existing solutions and concepts to a single overarching architectural framework(Must) • B2 (iv) Contact ESSnet on SDMX about possible collaborations.(must)

21. C. ONGOING ACTIVITIES FROM 2009/10 • These are activities started in 2009/10, which will require further work in 2010/11.

22. C1. Set up administration of the SAB • C1(i ) Define the subjects that the SAB will be the responsible administrative body for, in line with the Terms of Reference. (Must) • C1(ii) Define a workflow for decision making; how are proposals made by the SAB to be executed. This is closely related to the mandate. (Should)

23. C2. Collaboration (1) • C2(i)Work in collaboration with the ESSnet to develop information on licencing and judicial issues related to sharing of software in and outside EU. (Must) • C2(ii) Work in collaboration with the European Union funded "ESSnet" project on a common reference architecture to produce documentation about prerequisites for sharing of software on a technical level. (Must)

24. C2. Collaboration(2) • C2(iii) Research possible cooperation models for software development, identify those that are successful, and develop guidelines for this type of collaboration. (Must) • C2(iv) Research possible governance and management models for the outputs from collaborative development projects, identify those that are successful, and develop guidelines for future projects.(Should)

25. C3. Outreach • C3 (i) Expand the inventory of existing initiatives and collaborations (including persons to contact) and open this for maintenance and inputs from national and international statistical organizations. (Must)

26. Recommendations • Follow up on ESSnet? • Given that we all want to collaborate, the questions is only: HOW? • ?