Strengthening national statistical capacities towards a data revolution

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Strengthening national statistical capacities
towards a data revolution

• Stefan Dercon
• DFID
• Paris21 Meeting

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The French Revolution

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Also the French Revolution

• my candidate the donor-driven data collection
  agenda..

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A cultural revolution

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But also

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The Industrial Revolution

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Building national capacities

• More focused on use, and alert to use not just
  need but data collection for real impact
• Self-critical, looking for new ways to do things
  genuine innovations
• A real partnership with all actual and potential
  users and producers

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The data revolutionaries....

• Users and Producers of the World Unite.
• You have nothing to lose but your chains and
  ignorance.