Santander plans to cut Abbey National's five data processing centers to one, move most of its back-office operations to Spain, and outsource some of its call centers.
The Uganda MoH Resource Centre has the overall responsibility for processing national data collected through the HMIS and use these data to compile annual health sector performance reports [ 16] statistical abstracts [ 17] and policy formulation.
At the same time, recent rapid technological developments in data processing, data sharing across national European boundaries and data use for various purposes in the public and private sectors may lead to legal uncertainties with regard to privacy rights, ownership of data and data processing.
Specifically, this should involve developing statistical capacities to monitor human development indicators (including MDGs) of national statistical offices and other institutions involved in data processing and dissemination.
This includes in particular, a structuring of observing and data processing systems at global, regional, and national levels.
Recently, several improvements were made in the DORIS data processing at the IGN/JPL (Institut Geographique National, France; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA) analysis center: use of GRACE-derived gravity fields, data preprocessing and station discontinuity detection, etc.
At the end of the academic year, motivated students in electrical engineering and industrial data processing course take part in a national friendly robotic contest.
The project and the data processing will comply with the European Union Data Protection Legislation and national legislation.
Data processing involved 200 000 h of computation and was run on the Dutch national Target and BigGrid compute facilities supported by CIT/Groningen and SARA/Amsterdam.
To enable cross-national comparison of time use, Szalai and colleagues developed methods for sampling, interviewing, coding and data processing that were implemented in all twelve participating countries.
