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International Exhibition on "Innovative tools to transform information into knowledge"

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The first international exhibition on "innovative tools to transform statistics into knowledge" took place during the OECD World Forum. This exhibition was a unique opportunity for those active in indicators and measures of progress to showcase their latest work, demonstrate innovative tools to disseminate data and promote new indicators to the 1200 participants of the OECD World Forum.

 

The Exhibition Visitors' Choice Awards

  On Saturday morning two exhibitors had the opportunity to present their products and activities during the plenary session “Turning Statistics into Knowledge”. Forum participants were invited help us choose them by completing a questionnaire. The two selected exhibitors were "Swivel" and "Mapping Worlds".

   
 

List of Exhibitors (alphabetical order)

 1.  ANKARA CYBERPARK
 2.  ASHOKA TURKEY
 3.  BEYOND 20/20
 4. COUNCIL OF EUROPE
 5.  DevInfo
 6.  European Commission - Eurostat
 7.  Gapminder
 8.  Health Metrics Network
 9.  IBM 
 10.  ideas2evidence
 11.  INNOVIMAX
 12.  IRC ANATOLIA
 13.  Italian Ministry of Economic Development
 Department for Development and Cohesion Policies
 14.  KOREA NATIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICE
 15.  Mapping Worlds 
 16.  Middle East Technical University Department of Statistics
 17.  Ministry of Culture and Tourism Republic of Turkey 
 18.  OECD 
 19.  OFFICE for NATIONAL STATISTICS (UK)
 20.  The Population Studies Center
 University of Michigan
 21.  Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
 22.  State Planning Organisation of Turkey 
 23.  SunGard 
 24.  Swivel 
 25.  Tubitak
 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
 26.  The Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat)
 27.  Turksat AS
 28.  Turk Telekom
 29.  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
 30.  Nations Unies / United Nations / UNDP
 31.  UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge
 32.  UNICEF
 33.  5th WORLD WATER FORUM
 34.  WORLD BANK PUBLIC INFORMATION SERVICES
 35.  World Database of Happiness

 

Lunchtime presentations and background documents

 

 
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