[EQ] Course: Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change

Training course on Measuring the Progress of Societies:
“Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change”

 

 

May 11th to 15th 2009, Ottawa (Canada)

 

Website: http://www.oecd.org/document/62/0,3343,en_40033426_40037426_42208190_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

The OECD Global Project in association with the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)

 

 

The course has been designed for individuals wanting to understand the progress of their societies and promote evidence-based debate and policy making.

 

Scope: Is life getting better? Are our societies making progress? How many of us have the evidence to answer these questions? The world is changing and there is a global need, in this ‘information age’, to better understand social change.

 

Over the past 10 years or so there has been an explosion of interest in producing measures of societal progress. Measures that go beyond GDP to represent a broader view of the ways in which societies are progressing and regressing. Measures which are based on the values of a society, not those of a single political party or an elite few. Such sets of progress measures can help governments focus in a more joined up way on what really matters: they can foster a more informed debate on where a society is, where it wants to go and—most importantly—the choices it must make in order to get there. By measuring progress we can foster progress.  The Canadian Index of Wellbeing is just one prominent example of work underway in Canada.

 

In particular, the course will cover:

 

• How to measure progress;

• What to measure: the specific dimensions of progress;

• How to communicate the measures to a broad public.

 

Website: http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Events/Upcoming/20090511-15StatisticsKnowledgePolicy.htm?Language=EN

 

 

 

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