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• 1-week long summer schools targeted at raising awareness of the aims of the Global Project, going into detail on the practicalities of measuring progress, and the importance of communicating the indicators.These summer schools are generally orientated towards a diverse group of participants, strengthening peer to peer learning.

• Shorter courses (typically about 3 days in length) generally provide an introduction to the principles of measuring progress with a focus on a specific subject, either ‘How to measure progress’ or ‘How to communicate measures’.

• 1 day modules offering an introduction to the aims of the Global Project.

1. General Introduction to the Global Project
This module is an overview on why measuring progress is important, and why developing an accurate and representative set of progress measures for a society can be challenging.

• Measuring the progress of societies: A global movement for a global challenge
• Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change

2. What to Measure: Progress and its Dimensions
In order to measure progress we must know what it looks like. Progress means different things to different societies, and there are many different opinions on what to include among the key component of progress and how to label them. These modules touch on these issues.

• Taxonomy of Progress
• Measures of Australia's Progress (MAP)
• Does Money Buy Happiness?

3. How to Measure Progress
This module consider how to measure overall societal progress and its multiple dimensions (theories, statistical approaches, etc.), especially in emerging and complex areas not yet covered by statistical standards.

• The Main Approaches to Measuring Progress and Measuring Well-being (Objective and Subjective Well-being)
• The latest news on Indicator Research
• Measuring Progress: Democracy in the Information Age

 

4. Effective Communication of the Measures
This module is an overview on how to use innovative Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to present progress indicators to a wide audience and to facilitate the transformation of statistics into knowledge.

• How Can We Improve the Credibility of Evidence?
• Turning Statistics into Knowledge: new ICT tools
• The use of ICT tools for presenting statistics
• What makes a set of indicators successful
• Analysing Indicators and the role of Statisticians

 

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