FCSC and OECD meet in Paris to further strengthen collaboration efforts

The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC) Director General, Mr Abdullah Lootah, and Mr Paul Schreyer, Acting Director of Statistics and Data at the OECD, met at the margins of the recent PARIS21 and UNSD Conference ‘New approaches to capacity development for better data’ to discuss the two organisations’ collaboration. FCSC became the newest member […]

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Advanced SDMX and .Stat Suite Training in Bangkok

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), organised a workshop on Advanced Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Tools and Platforms. The Workshop was held at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific […]

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Successful SDMX Training Workshop completed

During the first week of October, the OECD, and the Federal Competiveness and Statistics Authority (FCSA) of the UAE (the newest member of the SIS-CC), completed a successful SDMX and .Stat training workshop. The Training included: An awareness of the Community (SIS-CC) and .Stat Suite, An understanding of the main SDMX concepts, Data modelling training […]

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Pilot project with NIS Cambodia successfully ends

A final mission under the pilot project to support the National Institute for Statistics of Cambodia (NIS) in Advancing dissemination of SDGs and other indicators using .Stat Suite took place over 5 days at the beginning of May, and saw the completion of 14 months of intense engagement jointly undertaken by UNICEF, PARIS21, UNSD and […]

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