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Training Course on Measuring the Progress of Societies
"Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change"
Agenda July 27th - 31th 2009
Meeting Hours : 27 July: 10:30 - 17:00 / 28 - 29 - 30 July : 9:00 - 17:00 / 31 July: 9:00 - 13:30
Monday July 27th (h 10:30 - 17:00) : General Introduction
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Welcome
Jon Hall, OECD Global Project, Timothy Wardrop, A/g Director National Statistical Training Institute ABS
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Presentation
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Overview of the Course
Barbara Iasiello (OECD Global Project)
Opening Session
Understanding societal Change
Jon Hall, OECD Global Project
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Presentation
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Measuring the Progress of Societies
Measuring Beyond GDP: What to Measure, How to Measure, Getting the Measures Used
Barbara Iasiello and Jon Hall
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Introduction to the Group Projects
Group 1: Progress - Increasing Knowledge and Learning
Group 2: Progress - Reducing Poverty
Group 3: Progress - Protecting the Environment
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Exercise
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Group exercise work
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Tuesday Julu 28th (h 9:00 - 17:00) : Why measure Progress
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Shortcomings of GDP as a measure of progress: the importance of new measures to guide policy making and decision making
Richard Denniss, Head of Australia Institute
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Presentation
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Measuring Progress in Practice: Measures of Australia’s Progress
Jon Hall,OECD Global Project
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Measuring Progress in Practice: The Global Peace Index
Clyde McConaghy, President, Global Peace Index, Institute for Economics and Peace
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Measuring Progress in Practice: Community Indicators Victoria
Sue West, The McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
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Exercise
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Group Exercise Work
The three groups prepare a 5 minute presentation on why it is important to measure progress for their topic and how the indicators could be used. Make a presentations back to the whole group
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Presentation
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An example: Measuring democracy and human rights.
Mike Salvaris, Human Rights and Democracy
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Wednesday July 29th (h 09:00 - 17:30) : How to Measure Progress
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A practical introduction to measuring progress and well-being: choosing approaches, frameworks and indicators
Barbara Iasiello & Jon Hall, OECD Global Project
Presentation and discussion introducing some of the different approaches, including objective and subjective measures.
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An Example: The Australian Treasury’s Wellbeing Framework
Tony McDonald, General Manager, Macroeconomic Policy Division
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Exercise
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Group Exercise Work
Selecting Dimensions: Groups select dimensions of progress for their topics and prepare a 5 minute presentation
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Presentation Group Exercise
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A Debate: Does Australia understand its progress? And would better measurements improve life?
Chair: Brian Pink, Australian Statistician
Richard Denniss - Head of Australia Institute
Bob Gregory - ANU-Australian National University
Ben Rimmer - Prime Minister Cabinet Office-PM&C
Dennis Trewin - Statistical Consultant
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From dimensions to data: selecting the indicators
Jon Hall, OECD Global Project
Group Exercise Work (including coffee) Groups select the indicators corresponding to the chosen dimensions. Then prepare a 5 minute presentation
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Thursday July 30th (h 09:00 - 17:00) : Communicating the Measures
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Groups report back with presentation on the previous day’s exercise
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Feedback on one minute video recording exercise
Jon Hall, Barbara Iasiello and Richard Burgess, ABS Director of Corporate Communications
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Communication: basic principles and New ICT Tools
Barbara Iasiello & Jon Hall
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Presentation
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Dealing with the Press
Richard Burgess
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Press Conference Simulation Exercise
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Exercise
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Preparation of Final Group Presentation
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Friday July 30th (h 09:00 - 13:30) : Conclusion
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Presentation
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What makes a set of indicators successful?
Barbara Iasiello
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Presentation
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Heresies and commonsense in the pursuit of progress
Richard Eckersley, Australia 21
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Exercise
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Preparation of Final Group Presentation
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Group Presentations to an invited panel
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How Will You Take this Forward When you Go Home?
Jon Hall
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Agenda (PDF version)
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