The role of technology in statistics education: a view from a developing region

Although statistics education has been a concern of statisticians for over a century, it was only following the establishment of the Educational Committee within the International Statistical Institute at the end of 1948 that serious efforts began to stimulate international research and debate on the needs for education and training in statistics, as well as measures and programs to meet these needs. A detailed survey of how actively this committee and its recent successor, the International Association for Statistical Education, took up this challenge appears in Vere-Jones (1995).