The attendees for this conference come from very broad range of applied statistics as well as th theory and education of the discipline of statistics. They include both users and producers of statistics. The groups who may have particular interest for AASDA session are expected to be officials and survey statisticians, statistical computing experts and academia who are interested in data sources all over the world.

AASDA will like to inform you that speakers and discussants are expected to find their own funding to travel to the conference, pay registration fees and cover their living costs in Durban. If a contributor from Africa or another developing country is unable to find funds, AASDA will work closely with ISI to identify possible source of funding to its level possible.

So, this is to invite any interested professional to participate in the conference by contributing to the AASDA session along with the defined theme of the session. We will ask interested contributors to send the abstract of their paper (not more than two pages) to Yakob Mudesir, Vice-Chair of AASDA through the following e-mail address not later that end of November 2008 and the full paper should be submitted on or before 13 April 2009. The e-mail address is: yakobu@ethionet.et

Thank you in advance for your interest to be part of AASDA’s session in the 57th ISI conference.

Regards,

Yakob Mudesir
Vice Chair, AASDA.