National Statistical Offices across Asia and the Pacific are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with a variety of new statistical solutions. In this Asia-Pacific Stats Café, we discuss the experience of countries and development partners standing-up COVID-19 data portals and the responses from users to their innovative data solutions.

This Stats Café session will feature:

  • Statistics New Zealand -- COVID-19 Data Portal
  • WHO -- COVID-19 Data Portal
  • ESCAP -- COVID-19 policy response Data Portal
  • Q&A and discussions

Panelists:

  • Richard Evans, General Manager for Economic and Environment Insights, Statistics New Zealand
  • Doris Ma Fat, Statistician of Data and Analytics Department, WHO
  • Ravi Shankar, GIS & Mapping Expert for Global Polio Eradication Initiative, WHO
  • Dayyan Shayani, Statistician of Statistics Division, ESCAP

Moderator: Gemma Van Halderen, Director of Statistics Division, ESCAP

Date: Monday, 13 July 2020

Time: 12:00-13:00 Bangkok time.

Please register for the Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series Here and join at the Microsoft Teams Meeting