The Development of Indicators for Local Communities 2nd OECD Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Poli

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The Development of Indicators for Local
Communities 2nd OECD Forum on Statistics,
Knowledge and Policy Measuring and Fostering
the Progress of SocietiesIstanbul June 2007

• Discussant Professor John Wiseman
• Director, The McCaughey Centre,
• VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental
  Health and Community Wellbeing

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Community Indicators Victoria

• Collaborative project hosted by the McCaughey
  Centre, University of Melbourne
• Partners Australian Bureau of Statistics,
  Victorian Govt, Local Govt, NGOs, Swinburne and
  RMIT Universities
• Platform for developing and using local
  community wellbeing indicators in Victoria
• Indicator development
• Data collection and analysis
• Web based summary and tailored reports (live
  data)
• Policy linkages
• Capacity building
• Research and policy networks and learning

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Local community indicators

• From diverse experiments
• ..to global movement
• ..to paradigm shift

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Local community indicatorsLessons from Canada,
NZ and USA

• Effective communication
• Strong policy linkages
• Capacity building
• Building Networks
• From movement to paradigm shift

• Progress, wellbeing and sustainability?
• Community - scope and scale?
• Clarity of purpose
• Democratic selection of indicators
• Availability of local data

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Questions

• To what extent has work on local community
  indicators moved from experiment to movement to
  paradigm shift?
• What are the most important next in the
  development and use of local community wellbeing
  indicators?
• How can we strengthen international co-operation
  and shared learning about the development and use
  of local community wellbeing indicators?