The Blue Sky Thinking Network is the “ideas factory” for the statistical modernisation community. The network provides a research and innovation platform where members can share ideas and look for partners to explore how new innovations to our production process can benefit statistical organisations.

The objective of the Blue Skies Thinking Network is to generate and evaluate proposals for HLG-MOS activities and where needed, to do short time boxed follow-up studies. The network will be an umbrella structure for a core group and short-term task teams to investigate new ideas and opportunities through short evaluation projects supported by the HLG-MOS Executive Board. Any idea that is in line with the HLG-MOS Strategic Framework can be considered. To allow for new innovations, space will also be given to out-of-the-box thinking.

During session, the four pitches covered quite some different aspects of cloud use. That helped to trigger rich discussions in the breakout groups.  

At the end of the session Mr. Barteld Braaksma did a quick check of appetite for follow-up by raising hands and there was clear support for moving forward.

BSTN will work on that.

The main challenge  is that the topic is quite rich, depends on the national context and maturity levels between organisations differ.

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