Transcript Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies Measuring the progress of societies: bringing statistics to citizens Jon Hall, Statistics Directorate, OECD.

Global Project on Measuring the Progress
of Societies
Measuring the
progress of
societies: bringing
statistics to citizens
Jon Hall, Statistics
Directorate, OECD
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
Number of users
Building knowledge
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
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Measuring Progress in Practice
• The process can brings benefits to
statisticians, policy makers, civil society and
citizens
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Progress Measures Can Help…
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Enhance democracy …
… enhance decision making …
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… and so generate progress
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Progress Measures Can Help…
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Enhance democracy …
… enhance decision making …
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… and so generate progress
Promote greater accountability
Promote more joined up government
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Enhance the quality of public debate
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• “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
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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
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effectiveness and use of sets of progress
measures
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 …
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Key Outputs 2008-2009
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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
Forthcoming Events
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: [email protected]