{"id":6458,"date":"2016-04-26T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=6458"},"modified":"2016-05-19T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:15:27","slug":"its-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=6458","title":{"rendered":"Its History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: darkred; font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 14;\"><b>HISTORY OF THE ISIBALO CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"background: url('https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/themes\/umkhanyakude\/img\/SchoolKids_3.jpg'); background-size: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"bottom\"><span style=\"font-size: 14;\">In 2009, South Africa hosted the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The ISI is a prestigious professional body of statisticians worldwide. Hosting the ISI Congress for the first time on the African continent, South Africa asked itself a question that remains relevant to this day: What value will South Africa and Africa yield in hosting an international conference? We asked ourselves the following questions:<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: darkred; font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 14;\">\u2714<\/span><span style=\"color: darkgreen; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12;\">As the global community wrestle with notions of big data and the data revolution for Sustainable Development Goals and National Development Plans in this century, are we building the right capacity to meet these challenges going forward?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: darkred; font-family: Kristen ITC; font-size: 14;\">\u2714<\/span><span style=\"color: blue; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12;\">Whether it is a Congress of the ISI or the Scientific Studies of Population (IUSSP) or in 2017 or global statistics and development platforms, can African demographers, scientists, official statisticians and development practitioners hold their own?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: darkred; font-size: 14;\">\u2714<\/span><span style=\"color: orange; font-size: 12; font-weight: bold;\">Are we pacing ourselves relative to the ongoing and even rapidly growing methodological discourse? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: darkred; font-size: 14;\">\u2714<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 12; font-weight: bold;\">Have we sufficiently built the capacity of young statisticians to make a meaningful contribution to the statistical development of Africa?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/themes\/umkhanyakude\/img\/HistoryPic1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/themes\/umkhanyakude\/img\/HistoryPic2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORY OF THE ISIBALO CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME In 2009, South Africa hosted the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The ISI is a prestigious professional body of statisticians worldwide. Hosting the ISI Congress for the first time on the African continent, South Africa asked itself a question that remains relevant to this day:&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=6458\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"isibaloProgrammes.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6458\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}