Results and student perspectives on a web-scraping assignment from Utah State University's data technologies course to evaluate the African activity in the statistical computing community.

In 2019, members of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) were contacted by members of the IASC from Africa asking whether it would be feasible to establish a new regional IASC section in Africa. The establishment of a new regional section requires several steps that are outlined in the IASC Statutes at https://iasc-isi.org/statutes/.