2025 was a pivotal year with the SIS-CC 2026–2030 Strategy taking shape by engaging the Community with a plan laid out how user research, SDMX semantics, and open knowledge building will underpin the next cycle. 2025 was also a year of delivery and co‑investment—spanning AI‑readiness, next‑gen SDMX modelling, metadata‑driven automation, global capacity building, and a number of .Stat Suite go lives.
Below, we recap each month’s key milestones and link to the original posts, case studies, and newsletters.
January–February — New website launched and strategy momentum, set in motion
We opened 2025 with the launch of the new Community website (siscc.org) with a stronger focus on stories from our community, highlighting how collaboration drives innovation, and a streamlined, cleaner design to make exploring and navigating the site easier than ever.
The start of the year also saw more intense engagement with the Community on the new 2026-2030 SIS-CC Strategy focusing on AI‑readiness and the statistical data mesh.
March — Community welcomed DG ECFIN and Maldives modernises national data infrastructure
As we began the month of March the Community welcomed the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) into the Community, marking a significant milestone in global efforts to advance the SDMX standard.
Also this month, the Maldives Bureau of Statistics completed its migration to .Stat Suite, strengthening the country’s ability to manage and disseminate official statistics—particularly climate‑sensitive data—via interoperable, SDMX‑based workflows.
“Implementing SDMX… has enabled us to modernise our data infrastructure, improve data quality, and streamline data exchange.”
Aishath Hassan, Chief Statistician, MBS
Read: Modernising Data Infrastructure for the Digital Age: the Maldives case study
April — Co‑investment opportunities for 2025–2030
We reported on the two March workshops that focused on co‑investments that will shape delivery in the new cycle—covering SDMX+AI, and hyper cloud scalability.
Read: SIS‑CC 2025–2030 Strategy: Elaborating co‑investment opportunities
May — Generative AI & official statistics: key takeaways
May captured lessons from the UNECE workshop on GenAI for official statistics, with practical pathways to AI‑readiness for producers and users.
Read: UNECE GenAI & Official Statistics Workshop 2025: Key Takeaways
June — NextGen SDMX data modelling + AI‑readiness
Two anchor posts framed June:
- NextGen SDMX Data Modelling 2025: Key Takeaways, spotlighting interoperability, cloud‑native patterns, and multilingual support for real‑time exchange.
- Beyond the buzz: what does ‘AI‑readiness’ really mean for official statistics?—distilling lessons from OECD’s AI‑Readiness survey and what “AI‑ready by design” implies for SDMX services.
The June Newsletter also summarised usability/performance improvements and platform migrations with the latest .Stat Suite release (Dirac), and noted .Stat Academy’s growth to 1,169 registered users across 153 countries.
Read: The SIS‑CC Newsletter – June 2025
July — Sustaining the pace
Early July carried the June roundup forward—reinforcing performance, UX and standards upgrades on the path to AI‑ready, interoperable data services across .Stat Suite deployments.
August — Metadata‑driven automation
Our workshop recap on calculation & orchestration with SDMX laid out how process metadata can drive automation at scale—reusing transformation schemes, representation maps, and orchestrators to streamline pipelines.
“In the SDMX context, ‘metadata‑driven’ means that process metadata can be queried to execute transformations and validations… orchestrate set sequences of data processing.”
Gyorgy Gyomai, Head of Smart Data Practices, OECD
Read: Metadata‑driven automation: Key Takeaways
September — Community updates
The September Newsletter kept focus on summer delivery and the run‑up to the SDMX Global Conference—from governance and interoperability to concrete releases and training. We also shared how the Madagascar’s Ministry of National Education (MEN), in partnership with UNESCO, ILO and the OECD, completed a pilot project to strengthen its statistical capacity for education leveraging the .Stat Academy resources as prerequisite for the in-person training workshops.
“The modules are an essential resource for mastering the specific language used in SDMX. With detailed explanations and concrete examples, they provide an in-depth understanding of the terminology.”
Fanilo Ambinintsoa Andriamora, Madagascar Ministry of National Education
Read: The SIS‑CC Newsletter – September 2025
October — SDMX Global Conference 2025: Smarter Data for Better Insights
From Rome, we captured how communities accelerate innovation—featuring SIS‑CC’s multi‑tier, open‑source model and BIS’s sdmx.io, as well as several success stories and implementation use cases from our members and extended community.
Read: Highlights from the SDMX Global Conference 2025
The October Newsletter added .Stat Suite releases (.NET “jackfruit”) for faster structure management and filtering) and .Stat Academy growth reaching 1,431 certified learners.
Read: The SIS‑CC Newsletter – October 2025
November — SDMX+AI: building smarter data
Our deep‑dive post distilled how SDMX and AI are converging—linking rich metadata/registries to trustworthy machine‑to‑machine use, and highlighting ethical/user‑centred practices.
Read: Building Smarter Data with SDMX & AI
The November Newsletter introduced the SDMX Global Discovery Service and URN Resolver, strengthening visibility and stability for SDMX‑based services worldwide—foundational for AI‑readiness. One recurring question was: Is SDMX data ready for AI? The answer: almost—but not entirely. To unlock AI’s full potential, SDMX datasets must have: complete metadata for context and interpretation, semantic consistency and accessible official data sources that feed structured data into AI pipelines.
In November, SIS-CC also joined OECD Stats Day 2025, a celebration of the vital role statistics and data play in advancing the organisation’s work and shaping better policies.
Read: The SIS‑CC Newsletter – November 2025
December — Season’s greetings & wrap‑up
We closed the year by thanking members, partners and the extended Community—and teeing up a fuller retrospective in January—reaffirming our commitment to trustworthy, interoperable official data.
Looking ahead to 2026: priorities at a glance
Our 2026 delivery will follow the SIS‑CC 2026–2030 Strategy—anchored in product excellence, co‑investment, and open knowledge.
Key themes:
- Value extensions: User Research (mainstreamed), AI‑Readiness (conversational access to statistics; AI‑ready metadata), and Statistical Data Mesh (SDMX as the backbone).
- Five delivery pillars:
- Component-based architecture & blazing‑fast SDMX APIs (incl. binary formats, multi‑tenancy, open‑source stack),
- Data lifecycle coverage via metadata‑driven automations (orchestration, calculations),
- Open‑source delivery (MIT; “open by default”),
- Community‑driven funding enabling frontier R&D co‑investments,
- Open Knowledge Building (.Stat Academy, SDMX Lab, hands‑on coaching).
Further reading explore the new archive and join the SIS‑CC mailing list.
