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IAOS Members Newsletter November 2019

Members Newsletter September 2019

The draft 2019-2021 IAOS strategy was introduced at the 2019 General Assembly and discussed briefly by the incoming IAOS Executive at its first meeting. My thanks again to those members at the General Assembly who provided comments.

The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is pleased to invite you to attend the IAOS President Special Session “Walking through Previously Uncharted Territories: Governance, Crime and Drug Statistics” that will be held on Tuesday, 20 August 2019 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (Conference Hall 1, Level 3) from 8:50-10:40.

The DDI Alliance has announced the public release of XKOS version 1.2, a free and open specification that facilitates sharing and management of statistical classifications. This tool is used by a number of international organisations.

International Association for Official Statistics
2019 General Assembly Meeting
Monday, 19 August 2019
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC)
Room: MR 409, Level 4
Time: 12:40 – 13:40

Following the IAOS Statutes, the 2018 Nominating Committee, in charge of selecting the candidates for posts of President-elect and four EXCO members, having one candidate for each position and taking into account a proper regional representation and gender balance as much as possible, has come up with the following list.

UN Statistics Division (UNSD) Symposium on Data Science and Official Statistics jointly organized with UNESCAP and UN Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics (GWG)

Dear IAOS colleagues,
We would like to share with you the United World Data Forum (UNWDF) invitation to its upcoming webinar on “Trust in Data and Statistics” on Thursday, 25 April 2019 at 10:00 am (EDT).

The 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress (ISI WSC 2019) will be held on 18-23 August 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Following the tradition of the previous WSCs, ISI, in cooperation with its Associations and with support of the host organization, is organizing a pre-WSC programme of short courses to take place on 16-17 August 2019 at Sasana Kijang of Bank Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.