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Discussant: Professor John Wiseman Director, The McCaughey Centre,

The Development of Indicators for Local Communities 2nd OECD Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies Istanbul June 2007. Discussant: Professor John Wiseman Director, The McCaughey Centre,

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Discussant: Professor John Wiseman Director, The McCaughey Centre,

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  1. The Development of Indicators for Local Communities2nd OECD Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Measuring and Fostering the Progress of SocietiesIstanbul June 2007 Discussant: Professor John Wiseman Director, The McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing

  2. Community Indicators Victoria • Collaborative project hosted by the McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne • Partners: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victorian Govt, Local Govt, NGOs, Swinburne and RMIT Universities • Platform for developing and using local community wellbeing indicators in Victoria • Indicator development • Data collection and analysis • Web based summary and tailored reports (live data) • Policy linkages • Capacity building • Research and policy networks and learning

  3. Local community indicators From diverse experiments …..to global movement …..to paradigm shift

  4. Local community indicators:Lessons from Canada, NZ and USA • Effective communication • Strong policy linkages • Capacity building • Building Networks • From movement to paradigm shift… • Progress, wellbeing and sustainability? • Community - scope and scale? • Clarity of purpose • Democratic selection of indicators • Availability of local data

  5. Questions • To what extent has work on local community indicators moved from experiment to movement to paradigm shift? • What are the most important next in the development and use of local community wellbeing indicators? • How can we strengthen international co-operation and shared learning about the development and use of local community wellbeing indicators?

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