Stocktaking and Lessons Learnt from the Implementation of CountrySTAT for the ECO Countries 25 – 26 June 2015 FAO HQ, Rome, Italy Fabio Grita CountrySTAT team leader FAO Statistics Division © FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. CountrySTAT / FENIX
New CountrySTAT Approach and Prototype
Stocktaking and Lessons Learnt
from the Implementation of CountrySTAT for the ECO Countries
25 – 26 June 2015
FAO HQ, Rome, Italy
Fabio Grita
System support officer, FAO

2. Moving Forward
Capitalize on the established capacity and
hand over full responsibility to the Government
of Afghanistan for the maintenance and future
design of the CountrySTAT application

3. Implementation Strategy
Demand-driven approach, supported by a flexible and
modular technology
Adopt the Open Data concept and methods to enhance
information sharing and benefit from the availability of
data from different sources
Broaden the scope of CountrySTAT to support data
collection and management (not just data dissemination)
Ensure relevance of CountrySTAT data and tools for the
organization managing the system (owner)

4. Main Features of the New CountrySTAT
Based on Open Source software; no licensing constraints and full
redistribution rights
Ability to handle different type of data (tables, GIS data, text, etc.)
Data search engine based on metadata
Enhanced data sharing capacities (through web services - APIs)
Ability to add/remove functionalities and applications (based on a
Service-Oriented Architecture - SOA)
Advanced analytical capacities (e.g. using R statistical package)

5. Open-Source technology used in CountrySTAT