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ECLAC’s Executive Secretary: Accurate, Up-to-date and Comprehensive Data are Crucial for Measuring Development Gaps and Traps

29 July 2024 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, stressed the importance today of data and statistics for moving towards more productive, inclusive and sustainable development, during Brazil’s National Conference of Data Producers and Users, where he spoke on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “It is only through open and transparent cooperation among public institutions, academia, the private sector and civil society that we can make significant advancements in the production of high-qualit…

T&T Parliamentarians Engage in Masterclass on Data, Statistics and AI for Decision Making and Sustainable Development

23 April 2024 | News

Director of ECLAC Caribbean, Diane Quarless, noted that the Parliament is the highest authority in the land and that full embrace of data goes hand in hand with sustainable development. “At ECLAC and within the wider UN, it is our hope that this substantive exchange will move us closer to decisive embrace of a National Statistical System (NSS) of Trinidad and Tobago that will serve as a model not only for the Caribbean, but one that can be emulated as a standard-bearer for all SIDS. This will not be possible without the action of the Members of Parliament… the power to create an enabling legis…

Countries Stress the Need to Have Sustainable Access to Data Held by the Private Sector for Official Statistical Purposes

25 September 2023 | News

Representatives of National Statistical Offices stressed the need to have sustainable access to data held by the private sector for the production of official statistics, during the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is taking place through Thursday, September 28 at the United Nations regional organization’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The Statement on the use of data held by the private sector for the purposes of official statistics warns about the increased challenges associated…

How to Follow the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas

22 September 2023 | News

The Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place on September 26-28, 2023 at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile. During the meeting, authorities and representatives from the National Statistics Offices of Latin American and Caribbean countries will debate issues of relevance for the region’s statistical development, such as the strengthening of statistics on the environment, climate change and disasters, and progress on the implementation of platforms for access to statistic…

Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas Will Take Place at ECLAC

21 September 2023 | Announcement

Authorities and representatives from the National Statistics Offices of Latin American and Caribbean countries will debate issues of relevance for the region’s statistical development, such as the strengthening of statistics on the environment, climate change and disasters, and progress on the implementation of platforms for access to statistical and geographical information, during the Twelfth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which will take place on September 26-28, 2023 at ECLAC’s main headquarters …

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