The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena, inaugurated the eighth meeting of the SCA.​

Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the support of German Cooperation. The United Nations system has put the data revolution at the heart of its agenda with national statistical offices. The aim of this seminar is to create, within the framework of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, a forum to discuss how to help member States to use the data revolution to monitor and review the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.