10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-X)
Date: 20-23 December 2009
Venue: Cairo - Egypt

SESRIC has participated in the 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-X), held in Cairo, Egypt, on 20-23 December 2009. The conference was organized by the Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS) and co-sponsored by the American University in Cairo and the Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC). The conference brought together researchers and practitioners in statistical sciences from 32 countries all over the world and more than 190 presentations were given by distinguished speakers. Mrs. Zehra Zumrut Selcuk represented the SESRIC thereat.

The ICCS-X conference was held under the theme of Statistics for Development and Good Governance. In this context, three discussion panels; Public Opinion Polling and Good Governance, Measuring the Unmeasurable, and Indicators and Politics were devoted entirely to the discussion and deliberation on the theme of the conference. In addition to that, various broad topics in statistics theory and its applications had also been discussed in other separate sessions.

For more information, please visit: http://www.iccs-x.org.eg