The meeting was opened by South African Statistician-General, Pali Lehohla, who discussed the problems involved in archiving survey data in Africa, and expressed concern over the fact that many African survey datasets were not preserved, or the only extant copies are currently archived in countries outside of Africa. He stated that AASDA could play a key role in supporting the preservation of reuse of high quality African survey data. The meeting represented the first occasion where data managers in NSOs from Francophone, Lusophone and Anglophone African countries had met to form a collaborative grouping. The meeting revised and adopted a constitution for the Association, and appointed office bearers. Data managers from the NSOs exchanged experiences on the use of the IHSN microdata management and dissemination tools, and discussed their future data curation plans. The IHSN/ADP team gave an overview of work done with African NSOs, and reiterated their support for data curation organisations in the region.