Goals
The conference aims at being a forum for discussions and exchanges on all aspects of statistics., practical and theoretical in relation to development issues in Africa. The conference is arranged, counting on multiple synergies: meeting of practitioners and scientists from various professional areas (academic, business, government and international agencies, etc.) and fields, meeting of several educational backgrounds (Anglo-Saxon, French, Portuguese and Spanish) present in Africa, meeting between statisticians working in Africa and outside Africa.
The conference aims to join statistical practitioners, academical statisticians, consultants and other professionals who are involved in the use of statistics for business and african development issues.
The conference offers opportunities to participants to meet each other, to share ideas, best practices and scientific advances, and to be inspired by keynote speakers and tutorials.
The organizers are hoping for fruitful discussions leading to the efficient use of statistical methods in the African context.
Therefore, the main objectives of the conference can be state as follows:
- To offer an opportunity for theoreticians and practitioners of statistical methods to meet and exchange views on all aspects of statistical methods applied to the problems of development in Africa.
- To promote research in statistics and stochastic modelling in Africa.
- To encourage the use of statistical methods to solve economic, social and developmental problems in Africa.
- To foster the transfer of knowledge on statistical and stochastic modelling.
- To lay the foundations of a pan-African network for research on statistical and stochastic modelling oriented towards the development of Africa.