Back to the 44th session of the Statistical Commission
26 February to 1 March 2013, United Nations Headquarters, New York

Side events

At the invitation of UNSD and following the mandate of the UN Statistical Commission,
the following meetings are being organized:

Tentative schedule as of 1 February 2013

   (Ground Plan for Temporary North Lawn Building-TNLB)            Closed meetings are by invitation of organizers only.
Date Morning Lunch break Afternoon Evening
22 Feb
Fri
Friday Seminar
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Big Data for Policy, Development and Official Statistics
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 2 (TNLB)
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
ICP Regional Coordinators
Organized by the World Bank
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
(closed meeting)
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Big Data for Policy, Development and Official Statistics - Demonstrations
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 2 (TNLB)
Friday Seminar
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Big Data for Policy, Development and Official Statistics (continued)
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 2 (TNLB)
4:00 - 5:00 pm
DFID Steering Committee with International Agencies
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
  
23 Feb
Sat
8:00 - 9:30 am
International Household Survey Network (IHSN) Management Group Breakfast Meeting
Organized by the World Bank
Venue: Millenium UN Plaza Hotel
(closed meeting)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UNSD/RC coordination on statistical programmes
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Paris21 Meeting on Bridging the User-Producer Divide: Statistical Capacity Development in a Post Busan World
Organized by Paris21
Venue: DC2-2111
 
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Statistics for Results - Meeting of Countries of SRF Pilot
Organized by the World Bank
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
2:00 - 5:00 pm
ECLAC Executive Committee Meeting
Organized by ECLAC
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
2:00 - 6:00 pm
The coordination of the implementation programme of the 2008 SNA and supporting statistics
Organized by ISWGNA
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
 
24 Feb
Sun
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
8th ICP Executive Board Meeting
Organized by the World Bank
Venue: Millenium UN Plaza Hotel
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
5th Meeting of the Bureau of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics
Organized by ESCAP
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Strengthening the capacity of African countries to use mobile technology to collect data for effective policy and decision making
Organized by ECA
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
DFID Meeting with Project Countries
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
EDGE project: Meeting of the Technical Working Group
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
 
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Paris 21 Executive Committee meeting
Organized by Paris 21
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Meeting of the Bureau and members of the Statistical Commission for Africa
Organized by ECA
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Steering Group on Short-term Economic Indicators
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
 
25 Feb
Mon
Learning Centres
Organized by UNSD
9:00 - 11:00 am
Linking People and Socio-Economic Information to a Location
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)

11:00 am- 1:00 pm
Experimental Ecosystem Accounts
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)

8:00 - 9:00 am
ISWGNA Management Group
Organized by ISWGNA
Venue: Outside
(closed meeting)
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
34th Meeting of the Statistics Committee of the Andean Community
Organized by Andean Community
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
21st session of CCSA
Venue: Conf. Room C (TNLB)
(closed meeting)
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Orientation Session for new Commission Participants
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room C (TNLB)
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Joint event PARIS21-SPC
Organized by PARIS21 and SPC
Venue: DC2-1949
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Framework for the development of environment statistics
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-2330
1:15 - 2:30 pm
ECA: Seminar on census, vital statistics in Africa
Organized by ECA
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
SEEA Bureau Meeting
Organized by UNSD
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Briefing of the work of the Inter-agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics
Organized by IMF
Venue: Millenium UN Plaza Hotel
High Level Forum on Official Statistics
3:00 - 6:00 pm
"Response to the Rio+20 Mandate for Broader Measures of Progress"
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 3 (TNLB)
6:15 - 7:00 pm
Ulaanbaatar Group meeting
Organized by UB Group
Venue: DC2-2330
(closed meeting)
26 Feb
Tue
8:30 - 9:45 am
Meeting of the Global Steering Committee to implement the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics
Organized by FAO
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
(closed meeting)
8:45 - 9:45 am
ISI & 2013 International Year of Statistics
Organized by ISI
Venue: Conf. Room 7 (TNLB)
10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Opening Session of the 44th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
Venue: Conf. Room 3 (TNLB)
Lunchtime Seminar
1:15 - 2:30 pm
SEEA implemenation
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 7 (TNLB)

1:15 - 2:30 pm
ECA: Seminar on Agriculture Statistics in Africa
Organized by AfDB
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Partners meeting on statistical capacity building in Myanmar
Organized by PARIS21
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
  
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Reception for Commission Delegates by the Chair of the Statistical Commission and the Director of the UN Statistics Division
Venue:
Ex-Press Bar
27 Feb
Wed
8:30 - 9:00 am
Meeting with MEDSTAT
Organized by EUROSTAT
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
8:30 - 9:45 am
Preparatory meeting of the 6th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics - ICAS VI
Organized by FAO
Venue: Conf. Room 7 (TNLB)
(closed meeting)
8:45 - 9:45 am
Developing a programme for the implementation of the 2008 SNA
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
9:00 - 9:45 am
Revision of principles and recommendations for a vital statistics system
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 3 (TNLB)
Lunchtime Seminar
1:15 - 2:15 pm
Trade and Business Registers: Use of Administrative data
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 7 (TNLB)

1:15 - 2:30 pm
The 2013 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development: Implications for data collection
Organized by UNSD/UNPD
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
1:15 - 1:45 pm
Meeting with Enlargement and Western Balkan countries
Organized by EUROSTAT
Venue: DC2-2111
(closed meeting)
  
6:15 - 8:15 pm
Statistics for Children: Presentations on MICS, MDGs and DevInfo, followed by Reception
Organized by UNICEF
Venue: UNICEF's Danny Kaye Visitor Center
28 Feb
Thurs
8:30 - 9:45 am
CountryData: Using SDMX to exchange MDG data between national statistical offices and international agencies
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room 3 (TNLB)
8:30 - 9:45 am
Seminar on the new UNICEF/Washington Group Module on Child Functioning and Disability
Organized by UNICEF/Washington Group
Venue: Conf. Room 7 (TNLB)
8:45 - 9:45 am
Launch of UN website "Global Forum on International Trade and Economic Globalization"
Organized by UNSD
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
9:00 - 10:00 am
Confidential Evaluation Session of the CSTAT Bureau
Organized by OECD
Venue: UNDP office
(closed meeting)
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Methodological tools for integrating agriculture into the national statistical system
Organized by FAO
Venue: Conf. Room 3 (TNLB)
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Seminar on Gender Statistics (jointly organized with UN-Women, under the auspices of the UNSC and the UNCSW)
Organized by UNSD/UN-Women
Venue: Conf. Room 7 (TNLB)
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Seminar on Some Statistical Issues in Measuring Human Development
Organized by Human Development Report Office/UNDP
Venue: DC2-2330
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Implementation of SEEA in Latin America and the Caribbean
Organized by UNSD and ECLAC
Venue: DC2-1684
(closed meeting)
2:30 - 5:00 pm
OECD CSTAT Bureau meeting
Organized by OECD
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
(closed meeting)
3:00 - 5:00 pm
ERETES User's Group meeting
Organized by Eurostat/INSEE
Venue: UN Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium
(closed meeting)
3:00 - 5:00 pm
5th Meeting with the Delegates of National Statistical Offices of OIC Member Countries
Organized by SESCRIC
Venue: Conf. Room 3 (TNLB)
(closed meeting)
  
1 Mar
Fri
8:30 - 9:30 am
Heads of Commonwealth NSO discussions on the future of the Commonwealth Statisticians Group
Organized by Australian Bureau of Statistics
Venue: Conf. Room A (TNLB)
(closed meeting)