The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) has a new website at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/. It is an excellent website. It has a publications page from which over 500 papers from IASE publications and proceedings can be located and downloaded. There is also information about IASE forthcoming activities and links to conference websites such as:

• The IASE Research Roundtable on "Curricular development in statistics education" at Lund, Sweden, 28 June to 3 July 2004. The Roundtable will bring together a small number of experts, representing as many different countries as possible, to discuss one another’s views and approaches to the curriculum for teaching statistics. Mike Camden, Statistics NZ, is on the Roundtable organising committee. For more information see the conference web page: http://hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~IASE_2004_Roundtable.

• The IASE Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics, 4-5 April 2005. This conference will be held before the ISI-55 conference in Sydney. It will give the opportunity for people to enjoy presentations given by people who have a special interest in communicating data-based results. There will be a number of invited speakers, as well as the opportunity for others to give contributed presentations. The presentations are planned to include discussions of the main components in statistical communication and the relevance of statistical communication in the general education of citizens. We hope that a lot of New Zealanders will participate in this conference and present papers. See
www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/conferences.php?show=iase2005.

• ICOTS-7, 2-7 July 2006, Salvador, Brazil. Preparation for this conference is underway. John Harraway, Otago University, is the scientific secretary on the International Program Committee Executive, while John Shanks, Otago University, has set up the website. See http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7/layout.php for a stunning website.

The Fourth Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy International Forum (SRTL-4) will be held in Auckland on 2-7 July 2005. A preliminary notice calling for proposals will be sent out in April 2004. There will be a website set up for this forum which will be accessible through the IASE website.