The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Statistics Division, will participate at the eighth Global Conference on SDMX in a panel discussion focused on the training needs of organizations that aspire to implement SDMX.
Virtual meeting, Mexico - 27-30 Sep 2021
The eighth Global Conference on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) will be held virtually, from 27-30 September 2021. The Conference is organized by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) and the Inter-American Development Bank, in close collaboration with the seven sponsoring organizations of this initiative: the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the European Central Bank (ECB), Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), and the World Bank.
This Global Conference is a bi-annual event for the community to share information on recent and upcoming SDMX developments. The target audience will include compilers and users of official statistics including national and international agencies, academia, and the private sector. The theme of the conference is “Data without barriers”. It will showcase how SDMX can help national and international agencies to simplify, strengthen, and modernize data and metadata exchange. In addition, SDMX 3.0, a new version of the standard, will be officially launched.
