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ISSA ONLINE EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

Hossein Moshiri Tabrizi
With the COVID-19 outbreak, the ISSA went virtual with all its Iranian Social Security Organization
events and activities. Webinars, regional and technical events,

and statutory meetings have been organized online, while

the ISSA Diploma programme is offered through e-learning
platforms, and a new e-workshop concept has been developed
and piloted.

Mohammed Azman bin Aziz Mohammed
SOCSO, Malaysia
GOING VIRTUAL

In the last year, all ISSA activities and events structures. All webinars are recorded and the
have been organized online, and there have videos are made available for members on
been more events than ever before. While the the ISSA website.
ISSA organizes around 50 events in a normal Zee-A Han
World Health Organization
year, almost 80 took place in 2020.
International and regional virtual
events
Weekly webinars
The ISSA organized larger virtual events:
The ISSA webinars were launched in April the Social Security Virtual Summit for the
2020 and quickly became a success. Americas in December 2020, the Virtual
The ISSA organized at least one webinar per Symposium on Leadership in Social Security
week, often in response to expressions of (LEAD2021) in January 2021 and the
interest by members, and there were over Virtual Symposium on Information and
7,500 registrations to webinars in 2020. More Communication Technology (ICT2021) in
than 2,200 staff from member institutions May 2021.
registered for the first time to an ISSA event.

The COVID-19 webinar series dominated in “ISSA regional webinars are like a rare and
the beginning, while focus gradually moved indispensable sap for the development of social
on to other areas. Series on long-term care security in Central Africa, in line with the noble
and digitalization were launched, as well as objectives of the ISSA.”
a special CEO Roundtable series. A number
of webinars were organized in cooperation Tiguy Elebe Motingiya, National Social Security Fund, Democratic
with ISSA technical commissions or regional Republic of the Congo, Regional Liaison Officer for Central Africa

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