About the ISLP
The International Statistical Literacy Project is under the umbrella of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), the education section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). It is managed by the ISLP Executive and overseen by the the ISLP Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is chaired by the IASE President and has representatives of IASE, International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and ISI.
Learn about our history, mission and the World Numeracy Project below, and see all the people managing this project.
The ISLP would not be possible without the effort of volunteers throughout the past years. If you are interested in becoming involved, please contact ISLP Coordination (islp.coordination@gmail.com). In particular we are currently looking for country representatives.
Our mission
The mission of the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) is to support, create and participate in statistical literacy activities and promotion around the world. To facilitate communication among many countries and projects, we support this webpage, which is a forum where those interested in acquiring or providing statistical literacy can meet (in a virtual sense), exchange needs, information and resources, and learn to disseminate statistical literacy in their communities. It replaces the World Numeracy Project of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
The ISLP is comprised of several projects, each of them focused on one area of statistical literacy. Each project is coordinated by expert volunteers (the project coordinator) who highlight news, compile resources, maintain a web page for their project and execute activities dedicated to increase statistical literacy in their area of expertise. The ISLP Director oversees all the projects and initiates statistical literacy activities that involve all of them and the world community.
The resources compiled by each project coordinator are useful for acquiring and developing statistical literacy at all levels from Primary/Elementary School through Adult Learners. There are also webpages for official statisticians and for journalists and the mass media. Further, there are webpages devoted statistical literacy projects, websites, etc. that have been developed by national statistical offices, national statistical societies, and other non-profit organizations. It is hoped that ISLP resources will be edited and updated in 2013.
The current Director of the ISLP is Reija Helenius. Please, contact the Director if you have any questions. The Director before Reija Helenius was Juana Sanchez, and before Juana was Carol Blumberg. This project would not have been possible without their work and that of others before them.
Foundation
An ISI committee was established in 1994 to stimulate the spread of quantitative skills around the world in areas and populations (especially in developing countries and among the young) that could benefit from increased knowledge of numbers and their applications, with particular regard to statistics. The committee was known as the World Numeracy Program Advisory Committee and was chaired by Prof. Luigi Biggeri (Italy).
In September 2000, the ISI President invited this program to come under the umbrella of the IASE. Carol Joyce Blumberg (USA), one of the Vice Presidents of IASE, took over as chair in July 2001.
In the ISLP meeting at ICOTS-6 in Bahia, Brasil, 2006, the decision was made to change the title of the person responsible for managing the ISLP to Director of the ISLP. A search committee was appointed to find a new Director that would replace Carol Blumberg, who moved from Winona State to a new job with the US Government. The result of this search, opened to all members of the IASE, resulted in Juana Sanchez (USA) being appointed as new Director of the ISLP for the term Jan 2007-Dec 2010.
You can find more about ISLP's history below.
