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The 2002 IAOS Conference on "Official Statistics and the New Economy" |
The 2002 IAOS Conference on "Official Statistics and the New Economy"
27 - 29 August 2002/The Conference Centre, Church House, London
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
For more information see the event website
Some 340 delegates from around the World had been involved in presentations, panel sessions and discussions with a good number of the economists and statisticians.
The conference was a great success, in both the quality of the program, and the organisation of each day. Len Cook, the National Statistician, said, "I have been to many statistical conferences, and this was one of the best organised, and relevant in content that I have attended".
The program committee, chaired by Tim Holt, managed to bring in leading contributors from North America and Europe, and as far as the Antipodes. There was an excellent mix of delegates, many from the United States, and strong contingents from Asia and Africa. After the conference, both ONS and the Department for International Development, DfID, organised workshops on leadership in statistics and in capacity building for senior statistical office staff.
Presentations:
Key Note presentations
Keynote Session 1: - 'What do we mean by the New Economy?'
Speaker: Dale Jorgenson
Keynote Session 2: - 'Policy Implications and their Statistical Needs'
Speaker: Diane Coyle
Keynote Session 3: - 'Business Transformation Implications of the New Economy'
Speaker: Merlin Stone
Keynote Session 4: - 'Measuring the New Economy'
Speaker: Steve Landefeld
'Measuring the Impact of the New Economy on Education Sector Outputs'
Speaker: Albert Tuijnman, Institute of International Education, Stockholm University
'The New Economy and the Role Played by the ICT Producing Sectors: Recent Trends and Comparisons Across OECD Countries'
Speaker: Alessandra Colecchia (OECD)
'Building blocks for the description of the digital economy'
Speaker: A.D. Kuipers
'An evaluation framework for e-consultations?'
Speaker: Ann Macintosh
'IT, Productivity and Growth in Enterprises: Evidence from new international micro data'
Speakers: B.K. Atrostic,U.S. Census Bureau; Peter Boegh-Nielsen, Statistics Denmark; Kazuyuki Motohashi, Hitotsubashi University and Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry
'Electronic and Internet Data Collection. Discussant Comments'
Speaker: Brent R. Moulton
'The System of National Accounts for the New Economy: What Should Change?'
Speaker: Brent R. Moulton
'Analysing the economy using electronic fund transfers'
Speaker: Brian Pink, Government Statistician, Statistics New Zealand
'Skills Insight'
'Development of Israel High-Tech Sector 1995-1999: Labour Force And Wages'
Speakers: Mark Feldman, Michal Abuganim, Central Bureau of Statistics, State of Israel
'Gender Statistics in Japan and Britain: Focusing on labour statistics'
Speakers: Yayoi Sugihashi and Angela Dale, CCSR, University of Manchester
'Capital Stock and Services: ICT in the Economy'
'The New Economy: New challenges for the statistical system'
Speaker: Olof Gärdin, Eurostat
'A Note on the Classifications of Expenditure According to Purpose'
Speaker: Helen Stone Tice
'Poverty in the 1990s - Pakistan'
Speaker: Noor Muhammad Larik, Ph.D., Federal Bureau of Statistics, Islamabad, Pakistan
'Challenges in the compilation of official poverty statistics in the Philippines'
Speakers: Romulo A. Virola & Estrella V. Domingo
'Do innovations affect mergers and acquisitions?'
Speakers: Eero Lehto, Labour Institute for Economic Research; Olavi Lehtoranta, Statistics Finland
'Impact of the Internet on Society."e-Society"'
Speaker: Emma-Jane Cooper-Green, Integration and Harmonisation Division, Office for National Statistics
'Integrated Representation of Environmental and Economic Data in Management of Environment'
Speaker: Zhanna Vasilevskaya, Belarus
'Measuring Trends in Prices in a Dynamic Universe - Issues raised by the New Economy and how the UK ONS is addressing these.'
'The Challenge of Measuring KM Business Contribution'
Speaker: Christian De Neef
'What do we mean by the New Economy?'
Speaker: Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University
'Productivity Gains from Policy Reforms, ICTs and Structural Transformation'
Speaker: Dean Parham
'Impact of the new economy on
- education sector outputs (Albert Tuijnman)
- health sector outputs (Michael Wolfson)'
Discussant: Denise Lievesley
'Scanner Data in CPI Research and Compilation'
Speaker: Guia Alcausin, Michael Anderson, Jonathan Khoo, Ken Tallis, Australian Bureau of Statistics
'Still Seeking the New Paradigm'
Speaker: Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics
'E Bookers Plc'
Speaker: Dinesh Dhamija, Chief Executive Officer
'The OECD growth study: some implications for statistics'
Speaker: Dirk Pilat, (OECD)
'The EU surveys on ICT usage of enterprises'
Speaker: Richard Deiss
'Statistics to Meet Policy Needs: The Labour of Sisypho'
Speaker: Enrico Giovannini
'A Framework for New Economy Statistics'
Speaker: Fred Gault
'The Digital Divide'
Speaker: Frederick W. H. HO, Commissioner for Census and Statistics, Hong Kong, China
'Implications of the "new economy" for macroeconomic policy'
Speaker: Gonzalo Camba-Mendez, Gabriel Quirós, European Central Bank
'A Tale of Eight Legs on a Fly'
Speaker: Gerard Korteweg and Focco Vijselaar
'The role of the Statistician in the Knowledge Based Economy'
Speaker: Geoff Carss, IBM Global Services
'The Digital Divide - Differences in diffusion and use of ICTs: Policy and statistical implications'
Speaker: Graham Vickery, OECD
'Education in the New Economy - A Statistical Framework'
Speaker: Heinz Gilomen
'The Aftermath of the "New Economy" - A Case Study of Five OECD countries'
Speaker: Hélène Baudchon
'Comments on: Searching for the European hedonic function for PCs/Challenges in producer price index measurement of selected service sector industries in the new economy'
Speaker: Johannes Hoffmann
'Japanese Experience in the Revision of the Japan Standard Industrial Classification'
Speaker: Kazuhiko Matsuo, Statistics Bureau (Japan)
'Implications for the Citizen'
Speaker: Kim Brinckmann, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
'International comparisons : discussion'
Speaker: Magali Demotes-Mainard, INSEE, France
'The New Economy & the conduct of US monetary policy in the 1990s'
Speaker: Mark A. Wynne, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
'The New Economy: Policy Implications and their Statistical Needs'
Speaker: Martin Weale, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Speaker: Mary O'Mahony, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London
'Business transformation implications of the new economy'
Speaker: Merlin Stone, Business Research Leader, IBM Business Innovation Services.
'Impact of the "New Economy" on Health Sector Activity, Implications for Statistical Measurement'
Speaker: Michael C. Wolfson, Statistics Canada
'Bias in Aggregate Productivity Measures'
Speaker: Mike Harper
'Is there a new economy?'
Speaker: Nick Oulton, Bank of England
'Challenges in producer price index measurement of selected service sector industries in the new economy'
Speaker: Nick Palmer
'Experiences and Consequences.with FlowerAccess co-operation between players throughout the floral value chain'
Speaker: Paul Hin, Aalsmeer Flower Auction
'Searching for the European Hedonic Function for PCs'
Speaker: Paul Konijn, Dietmar Moch, Jörgen Dalén
'Discussion: Implications for the Citizen'
Speaker: Pedro Díaz Muñoz, Eurostat
'Success Factors of B2B E-Marketplaces'
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Piet Ribbers, Tilburg University
'Lessons learned and next steps'
Speaker: John Kidgell, Director of Economic Statistics, ONS
'K-Measures towards Building a Knowledge Society and Economy'
Speaker: R. Ramachandran
'Classification of activities and products'
'Beyond 1993: SNA and the New Economy'
Speaker: Rob Edwards, Australian Bureau of Statistics
'After the Collapse: Where does the `New Economy' Go from Here?'
Speaker: Robert J. Gordon, Stanley G. Harris
'Technology Achievement Index'
Speaker: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Human Development Report, UNDP
'A Framework for Measuring a Knowledge Based Economy and Society'
Speaker: Sheridan Roberts
'The New Economy Redux?'
Speaker: Steve Landefeld
Speaker: Tarek M. Harchaoui, Microeconomic Analysis Division, Statistics Canada
'Making e-commerce work for a traditional financial services business'
Speaker: Toby Strauss, recent MD Charcol