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Tourism sustainability is theme of Regional Hub for Big Data webinar
October 09, 2024 12h44 PM | Last Updated: October 10, 2024 04h18 PM
The UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil is promoting a series of webinars on the production of climate change indicators. The next seminar will be on October 16, at 11 am. It will approach the potential of new data sources to measure tourism sustainability.
Enrollment is free of charge and is already open. To participate, just enroll on link https://hub.ibge.gov.br/index.htm. The event will be broadcast in English.
The speaker will be Apolonija Oblak Flander, who will approach the opportunities and challenges of integrating alternative data sources to existing statistical structures to measure, in real time, the impact of tourism in local economies, communities and environment. New sources include data from mobile networks, automatic traffic counters, smart electricity meters, international platforms of short-term rental and transactions with payment cards.
Master in Political and Social Geography, Apolonija Oblak Flander is the Director General of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, in which she works for more than 20 years with demographic statistics, population censuses and transportation and tourism statistics. She is the leader of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development´s Working Group on Tourism Statistics.
Series of climate change indicators
The Regional Hub for Big Data is promoting a series of webinars to share experiences in the use of new data sources to mitigate climate changes. Themes like biodiversity, tourism sustainability and integration of geospatial information to monitor land use are approached. Sessions are either in Spanish or English, counting with the participation of experts from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from other regions.
Started in September, the monthly webinars will end in August next year, except for December and January. All of them will be available on the Hub page. The first one was on climate change metrics and disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third one is scheduled for November 13.
ENCE/IBGE coordinates UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil
Resulting from a partnership between the IBGE and the UN Statistics Division, the UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil (https://hub.ibge.gov.br) was launched in November 2021 in the XI Statistical Conference of the Americas, carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Hub is hosted in the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), the IBGE´s academic arm that coordinates the efforts and contributions from different areas to support the activities of the Regional Hub.
The project aims at contributing to the advance in the use of Big Data to improve the production of official statistics, by sharing knowledge and developing innovative initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to Brazil, four other countries also integrate this initiative as headquarters of either global or regional hubs: United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Rwanda and China.
