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This is our focus

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4 + Develop Statistical Capacity
+ Encourage Statistical Communication & Networking
+ Increase the Public Voice of Statistic
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Membership Development: Together, we can do so much more.

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A new membership development plan towards 2025
In 2022, the International Statistical Institute started rethinking a new membership development plan. The membership development plan will provide a roadmap for the International Statistical Institute's future objectives and strategies for retention and recruitment. This plan will be a valuable tool as we strive to reach our membership goals and will enable us to monitor progress.

The International Statistical Institute proposed a strategy to increase recognition among the statistical community by offering services through local engagement and global collaboration. The goal is to attract new members and maintain existing members. The plan will contain a programme that will focus on, among other things: providing targeted, valuable content; simplifying the path to membership; show the value of being a member; stepping up social media interaction; finding co-marketing opportunities; optimizing the website for new member conversions; and advancing existing networks.
We are more than just a non-profit organisation. We are a statistical and data science community, a family. We are a place where you can find support and make a meaningful difference.

Connect with Others

"I described my experience since I think there are many other people in the world who are involved in local and/or specialised associations but they are not taking the last step I mentioned earlier, i.e., becoming an ISI member. I understand that it might be more comfortable and useful to interact with people from the same area (scientific or geographic) but I believe we should be open to broaden our views and meet other statisticians/users of Statistics working in different fields with respect to us. ISI and its seven Associations are the proper place for this!"

Part of Fabrizio Ruggeri's December blog (see picture) - ISI President-Elect.

Fabrizio Ruggeri talks about ISI membership

I started my scientific activity a long time ago, in the 1980s, and I have seen many changes since then. As a Bayesian statistician, I still remember the days before MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo) and then the blossoming of Bayesian works after MCMC became so popular. Six Sigma, Big Data, Data Science are concepts which I have encountered over the years, and they opened new perspectives and challenges for a mathematical statistician like me. Changes also occurred in my knowledge of statistical associations. I started with SIS and ASA, the Italian and US statistical associations, and with UMI (the Italian Mathematical Union) due to my Italian origin and affiliation and US studies. Then I broadened my interests to specialised international societies, such as IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics), ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) and ENBIS (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics), and I eventually became President of the last two in 2012 and 2005, respectively (as I did with ISBIS in 2019).  Finally, I took the last step, and I became an ISI Elected Member (and then Council Member, Vice President, and President-Elect), entering the most important statistical organisation at international level. As you can see, I continued to broaden my horizons, expanding my knowledge about Statistics and statisticians. And ISI is THE perfect place for broadening someone’s views. This is where I met, for example, people working in Official Statistics and I learned (not enough, sorry!) about the problems they are facing and how they are tackling them. ISI is the place where I made new friends and where new collaborations began.