Had a great day demonstrating some of the #UNGlobalPlatform services at Commonwealth Heads of Statistics Conference 2018 yesterday. Looking forward to round two today! UN Big Data

Via the collaboration of Ordnance Survey with the Tanzania and Zanzibar, Bart Chudas shows the importance of effective policy, data sharing, technology and education in enabling developing nations. #CHOSC18

Parallel session on geospatial data. Starting with Chris Gale talking about its use for #SDGs It's a very exciting area for innovation and big data. #GlobalGoals #CHoSC18

Ask JGI: this sounds fun. Any #DataScience questions people might have? #CHOSC18 bristol.ac.uk/golding/ask-jg…

I’m here for day 2 of #CHOSC18 and it’s been a great event so far - really good talks and engagement. Find me in the marketplace if you are interested in what we are doing on ageing stats #TCGAgeing

Interesting to hear about Rural Household Multi Indicator Survey using open source software to 'gather information on farming households in the rural developing world' eg including on gendered descision-making at #CHOSC18 rhomis.org

Today Jean Golding Institute Director, Prof Kate Robson Brown will be talking at the Commonwealth Heads of Statistics Conference 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Statistics Conference 2018, sharing our experiences working with our partners ILRI.org that works on food security in developing countries.

The UK Statistics Authority national statistical leadership team at #CHOSC18. Featuring John Pullinger, Heather Savory and Jathers.

.Pauline Rose of Cambridge University and the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre gives #CHOSC18 the commonwealth perspective to measuring 12 Years of quality education for all.

Neil McIvor (DfE CDO/Chief Stat) introduces a series of educational case studies. Professor Pauline Rose highlights major data gaps in some countries: including access to education, learning and financing. Lots to do globally to meet SDG 4 #CHoSC18 un.org/sustainabledev…

Ibrahim Jantan, Deputy Chief Staticitian of DOSM, invites all delegates to ISI WSC 2019. Please visit their page for more information.

UK National Statistician, John Pullinger, hands of the ‘cricket baton’ to Yusuf Murangwa, Director General of NIS Rwanda. #CHOSC18

#Pacific Regional Youth Leaders gathered in #Fiji to explore new strategies to strengthen #youth engagement in tackling issues such as unemployment, inequality and education disparity #CommonwealthYouth #CYF #RYLW2018

Ethiopia partners identify gaps in gender in livestock research and options for livestock farmers livestock.cgiar.org/2019/01/23/eth…

KNBS Director General Mr Zachary Mwangi elected chair of #UN50SC. Congratulations are in order!

Happy #CommonwealthDay! We look forward to future Commonwealth NSI collaboration. Please do visit the The Commonwealth #CommonwealthDay website page for all their wonderful highlights: thecommonwealth.org/commonwealthday

Long time, no see! Great to see nearly 100 statisticians from across the Commonwealth coming to together to discuss how to produce better statistics for better decisions last night in the margins of ISI WSC 2019

The Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK Statistics Authority and Data Science Campus are pleased to offer 2021 Commonwealth Professional Fellowships fully funded by CSC in the UK. Details of the Commonwealth Fellowship programme offered by ONS and how to apply can be found here. cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/professi…