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Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies. Jon Hall, Statistics Directorate, OECD. Measuring the progress of societies: bringing statistics to citizens. Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies. A new approach From output to welfare
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Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies Jon Hall, Statistics Directorate, OECD Measuring the progress of societies: bringing statistics to citizens
Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies • A new approach • From output to welfare • From “information providers” to “knowledge builders” • From top-down to bottom-up • Four pillars • Statistical research • Development of ICT tools to help in transforming statistics into knowledge • Advocacy and institutional building • Development of a global infrastructure about progress • Time frame: 2007 - 2011
Building knowledge Number of users Using ICT & Civil society networks to produce and diffuse knowledge A minority Experts Information about societal progress
Measuring Progress in Practice • It is up to a society to discuss what progress means for them and what are the most important numbers to judge their progress? This conversation should involve all sectors. • That information should be presented in a way that all citizens can decide for themselves whether and how their society is progressing
Measuring Progress in Practice • The process can brings benefits to statisticians, policy makers, civil society and citizens
Progress Measures Can Help… • Enhance democracy … • … enhance decision making … • … and so generate progress
Progress Measures Can Help… • Enhance democracy … • … enhance decision making … • … and so generate progress • Promote greater accountability • Promote more joined up government • Enhance the quality of public debate
“Measuring the Progress of Societies is one of the most important roles the OECD can take on” • Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary General • "World GDP growth has been faster than it has been for a very long time. But people are not particularly happy". • Kemal Dervis, Head of UNDP • Progress indicators are a way for people to hold their government’s accountable • Francois Bourguignon, Chief Economist of the World Bank www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum
The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies • Working with UNDP, the World Bank, the EU and others to take this work forward • We will • Advocate for more initiatives that measure progress • Assist those wanting to measure progress – through developing best practice and providing support • Achieve results – through improving the effectiveness and use of sets of progress measures • We want every society to develop its own set of progress measures and use them
The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies • Establishing regional groups around the world. • We want every society to develop its own set of progress measures and use them • Work underway in USA, Hungary, Canada, Australia, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Bhutan, Arab region …
Key Outputs 2008-2009 • Develop best practices to measure progress • -Taxonomy of societal progress dimensions • - Handbook on Measuring Progress • - Guidelines on how to measure particular dimensions of progress • - Launch the Journal of the Progress of Societies • Promote the establishment of national roundtables for measuring progress • -Global Project web site and development of the other communication tools • - Promote regional working groups • -Regional and thematic conferences with experts, policy makers, civil society, etc • - Guidelines on how to build progress roundtables at local and national levels
Key Outputs 2008-2009 (cont'd) • Provide assistance on initiatives to measure progress • Training materials and courses • Report on what makes a set of key indicators successful • Release and promotion of ICT tools to communicate data and indicators
ForthcomingEvents Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies:A New Approach for CIS and Eastern European Countries Moscow, September 29-30 Third World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy “Measuring the Progress of Societies”South Korea, October 27-30 2009
Thank you! Contact: Jon.Hall@oecd.org