Urgently needed and evolving statistical demands are urging national statistical systems to transform into enabled and empowered bodies who can lead development of and to deliver innovative trusted and timely products and services. Now it’s time for national statistical agencies to step out of their comfort zone to discover new paths.

Are you curious to know how official statisticians in Europe are moving forward? Here is the link to documents of 68th plenary session of the Conference of European Statisticians, virtually held on 22 - 24 June 2020. If as a member of the Data Integration Community of Practice, data integration topics interest you the most, then you can find valuable papers, mostly focusing on integration of statistical and geospatial information, under the Joint Session with UN-GGIM: Europe. One particular stand-out presentation was from the Director-General of Statistic of Estonia, Mr Mart Magi. These papers are also shared on the DI-CoP Resources page under Integrating geospatial and statistical information.