LUNCHTIME SEMINAR AND SIDE EVENT GUIDE 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making 16-19 October 2012 New Delhi, India Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making 16-19 October 2012, Ashok Convention Centre, New Delhi, India Lunchtime Seminar and Side Event Guide Lunchtime Seminars Lunchtime Seminar: Wikiprogress Networks – Well-Being Here, There and Everywhere – Regional Participation to a Global Movement ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring Progress in Education ........................................................................................... 2 Lunchtime Seminar: Human Development Index by the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Lunchtime Seminar: India Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) ................................................................... 3 Lunchtime Seminar: Big Data – Big Time? Statistical Capacity Building 2.0 .......................................................... 3 Lunchtime Seminar: Open Data for Development ................................................................................................... 4 Lunchtime Seminar: The OECD Better Life Initiative ............................................................................................... 4 Lunchtime Seminar: Will a Greener Growth Path Head Off a Rather Brown Future?.............................................. 5 Lunchtime Seminar: The Regional and Urban Dimension of Well-Being: Improving Measurement and Policy Making ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Lunchtime Seminar: The Measurement of Economic Performance: Alternative Approaches ................................. 6 Side Events Side Event: Global Progress Research Network (GPRNet) Strategic Workshop .................................................... 7 Side Event: Social Cohesion in a Shifting World – Global Development Network ­ OECD Development Centre Joint Policy Dialogue ............................................................................................................................................... 8 Side Event: Extensive Analyses of the Gross National Happiness Index: Release of a Report of the Centre for Bhutan Studies ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Side Event: Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty Measures by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Side Event: Launch of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report .......................................................... 9 Side Event: Connections Count. Community Transformation: The Way to Achieve and Sustain Wellbeing ........... 9 Side Event: Measuring Progress – A Discussion of Different Dimensions .............................................................. 9 Side Event: DevInfo, Database Technology for Measuring Development and Policy Planning ............................... 9 LUNCHTIME SEMINARS 4th OECD World Forum, New Delhi, 16-19 October 2012 LUNCHTIME SEMINAR AND SIDE EVENT GUIDE 10 October 2012 (draft subject to change) Lunchtime Seminar: Wikiprogress Networks – Well-Being Here, There and Everywhere – Regional Participation to a Global Movement Tuesday 16 October, 14:00-14:30, Parallel Room 4, Ashok Hotel Angela Hariche (Statistics Directorate and Development Centre OECD), Donatella Fazio (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy), Raj Mitra (African Centre for Statistics), Mariano Rojas (Foro Consultivo Científico Y Tecnológico, Mexico) and Mike Salvaris (Australian National Development Index, Australia) Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information on well-being and progress. Its goal is to create a web community around a shared vision on how to define and measure the progress of different societies by creating a place where progress data and research articles can be loaded, visualised and analysed so that good decisions can be made at the local, national and international levels. Today, the ‘beyond GDP’ discussion has moved beyond the realm of specialists and academics to involve policy-makers, civil society and citizens at large. Wikiprogress has become the global online hub for discourse on measuring the progress and well-being. Wikiprogress, including Wikigender, Wikichild, GPRNet, Wikiprogress.stat and the new Regional Progress Networks (for Africa, Europe and Latin America) enables a truly global discussion at a regional and subject matter level. This lunchtime seminar will enable participants to find out about the Wikiprogress regional and global networks. Some of the questions to be addressed will include the following: How can Wikiprogress support their regional networks? How can it foster more involvement at the county level? Looking ahead, what are the next steps in terms of regional participation in the progress and well-being discussion, that will enable political support for the production and dissemination of better statistics in this field? Lunchtime Seminar: Measuring Progress in Education Tuesday 16 October, 14:30-15:00, Parallel Room 1, Ashok Hotel Barbara Ischinger and Michael Davidson (Directorate for Education, OECD) The OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of learning outcomes (numeracy, literacy and science) in education. By testing every three years about half a million high school students from around 70 countries, which account for nine-tenths of the world economy, PISA assesses the knowledge and skills of students aged 15 years and reports on the relationships between the quality and equity of educational systems. Since the first cycle in 2000, PISA results have not only identified some of the world’s top performing and most equitable education systems, but results also show that countries from a variety of starting points have managed to raise the quality of educational outcomes substantially. The 2009 cycle of PISA explored equality in learning outcomes, equity in the distribution of learning resources and equity in the distribution of learning opportunities for participating countries. Despite the growing number of countries participating in PISA, the value of PISA to a wider range of countries, including developing countries, needs to be better articulated. This lunchtime seminar will present PISA results that demonstrate how countries from differing starting points have made impressive progress in their schooling outcomes and will outline OECD’s plans for enhancing the relevance of PISA to a wider range of countries. 2 4th OECD World Forum, New Delhi, 16-19 October 2012 LUNCHTIME SEMINAR AND SIDE EVENT GUIDE 10 October 2012 (draft subject to change) Lunchtime Seminar: Human Development Index by the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme Tuesday 16 October, 14:30-15:00, Parallel Room 2, Ashok Hotel Jon Hall (Human Development Report Office, UNDP) and K. Seeta Prabhu (UNDP) This presentation will consider 20 years’ worth of experience of the Human Development Index: how has it been used to promote change, and how has it been applied around the world at global, regional, national and local levels to measure and foster development. Lunchtime Seminar: India Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Tuesday 16 October, 14:30-15:00, Parallel Room 3, Ashok Hotel Somali Cerise (OECD Development Centre), Dhrijesh Kumar Tiwari (Social Statistics Division, Central Statistics Office, India) and Yamini Atmavilas (Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India) Despite broad agreement that gender equality matters in its own right and as a driver of development, policy-makers continue to grapple with why stark gender gaps persist. Among the key root causes of unequal outcomes for women and men are social institutions – norms, laws and practices – which discriminate against women and girls. While conventional indicators of gender equality capture inequality in outcomes such as education and employment, the OECD Development Centre Social Institutions and Gender Index measures discriminatory social institutions across five dimensions including family discrimination, gender-based violence, access to resources, son bias and access to public space. India, under the leadership of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, is the first country to apply the SIGI framework at a country level, involving sub-national data collection on discriminatory social institutions in five states of India. The aim of the SIGI-India is to draw state-level comparisons of the prevalence of discriminatory norms and practices, understand their relationship with development outcomes and to promote the development of responsive policies that will address them. This lunchtime seminar will discuss the SIGI-India initiative and its policy implications. Lunchtime Seminar: Big Data – Big Time? Statistical Capacity