The Regional workshop on measuring the digital economy under the new 2025 System of National Accounts 2025 (2025 SNA), is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division, the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) and the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA). The workshop aims at enhancing participants’ capacity on a) the implementation of the System of National Accounts, 2025 (2025 SNA) (overview and planning the implementation, globalization, digitalization, well-being and sustainability, and communicating transition to 2025 SNA); b) policy relevance of compiling the digital economy accounts under the new framework; and c) compilation of the Digital Time Use Table under the new framework and data sources.

The meeting will increase technical capabilities to produce high quality economic statistics for the compilation of national accounts supporting data driven decision making for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The funds will cover the travel expenses of one resource person from DESA and a total of four (4) participants from the National Statistics Offices.