The fifth meeting of the Working Party on the Application of New Technology to Population Data was held in Bangkok on 21 October 1999.  It was attended by all the members of the Working Party, a faculty member of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), and the ESCAP Adviser on Population Statistics of the United Nations Population Fund/Country Support Team (UNFPA/CST) for East and South Asia.  The main task of the meeting was to evaluate the Workshop on Application of New Information Technology to Population Data, held from 12 to 20 October, and to adopt procedures for completing the remaining activities of the project.

Working Party on the Application of  New Technology to Population Data
Fifth meeting
21 October 1999
Bangkok

1. Opening of the meeting.
2. Election of officers.
3. Adoption of the agenda.
4. Review of overall experience with the Workshop held under the project in October and its recommendations
5. Evaluation of the experience at the Workshop with the use of the guidelines.
6. Review of ongoing activities and strategies for completing unfinished work:
1. Guidelines;
2. Reports on the pilots;
3. Awareness package;
4. CD-ROM on the outputs of the project;
5. Newsletters;
6. Project Web site.
7. Final evaluation of the project.
8. Other matters.