UEMOA, Mali and Togo receive two weeks CountrySTAT Training
During the last two weeks (30th April - 11th May 2007) employees from UEMOA, Statistical Offices of Mali and Togo and FAO staff were trained in a CountrySTAT Advanced Administrator training. The training was one of the major milestones in a CountrySTAT Project with UEMOA. The atmosphere was great and the collaboration very fruitful. Pictures and more information are on CountrySTAT's training page
OECD and Istat invited to a very interesting seminar held in Rome 5-6 March about dynamical graphical presentation of statistics.
The CountrySTAT Team grabbed the opportunity to listen to excellent lectures and discussions. Our colleagues from FAOSTAT, Mr. Gillin and Mr. Schmidt introduced the WATF Flash Tradeflow applications and many other interesting ideas and projects were presented.
Many institutions and organizations are involved in various projects on graphical issues. Flash and RIA technology is apparently gaining more attention, but the emerging SVG technology is also very promising.
Towards the end of February three new countries where uploaded to the web as part of the EC Food Security Project.
The countries are Ethiopia, Malawai and Somalia. The CountrySTAT Team in Rome is pleased to announce that after these latest activities all countries participating in the EC Food Security Project have been uploaded.
FAO ESS has made an introductionary video and CountrySTAT is of course part of it.
And now you can watch the video on the website.
During the last days of 2006 some new CountrySTAT countries were published online.
The publishing was part of the Food Security Information for Action project. After the publications 4 out of 7 countries participating in the project are now online.
On 28th November 2006 a prototype version of CountrySTAT Italia has been presented at the VIII National Conference of Statistics in Rome, Italy.
The statistical framework, its the webbased solution, its features and potential use have been shown in the Agorà Space at a dedicated session titled “FAOSTAT e CountrySTAT: Struttura e Sistemi integrati per le statistiche globali e nazionali sull'agricoltura e l'alimentazione - Applicazioni per l'Italia e il Progetto UEMOA sponsorizzato dall'Italia” by Edoardo Pizzoli, Statistician and Kafkas Caprazli, CountrySTAT Manager.
A special section dealing on Rural Development Statistics (RDS) has been introduced in CountrySTAT for the first time, in the Italian case. This family of statistics, due to their national characterization and actual data availability, will be developed in the future with different degrees of insight in national and regional versions of CountrySTAT applications.
A high-level workshop on CountrySTAT and Metadata was hosted by Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) in Cairo from 11-14 December 2006. During the workshop the CountrySTAT AOAD was officially launched on 11th December 2006 by Dr Monir, Director of Agricultural Statistics in AOAD. The 15 participants of the workshop were directors of the National Statistical Offices from the AOAD Member States. The main item on the agenda was a discussion on quality statistical metadata and the introduction of CountrySTAT AOAD alias RegionSTAT AOAD.
CountrySTAT methodology and technology was presented to the workshop and received a lot of interest. In the final recommendations of the workshop the participants put forward seven recommendations regarding adoption of CountrySTAT within the AOAD Member States.
