Second OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy"
Istanbul, Turkey, 27-30 June 2007



The Construction and Use of Indicator Sets: Lessons to Build Modern Democracies
    The Construction and Use of Indicator Sets Lessons for Democracies, Jon Hall
    SW strategies to monitor indicators involved in governments’ social commitments, Prof. Daniel Macadar
    Empowering And Challenging Voters Through Governance Indicators: The Philippine Experience, Dr. Romulo A. Virola
 
Roundtable: Measuring Happiness and Making Policy
    Measures Of Gross National Happiness, Ruut Veenhoven
    Measuring Happiness and Making Policy, Professor Paul Dolan
    Measuring a Better Future Happiness in the Korean Context, Dae You Kim
    Measuring Happiness and Making Policy, Gert G. Wagner
    Japanese Statistics and Happiness Measurement, Yoshizoe, Yasuto
 
Growing Old, Growing Young: Demographic Challenges
    Aging and Demographic Change in Europe: Divergent Trends in Western and Central Europe, Rainer Muenz
    Growing Old, Growing Young: Demographic Challenges, Hussein A. Sayed
    Child development, human development and the progress of societies, Fiona Stanley and Stephen R Zubrick
 
Roundtable: Tackling Global Problems:The Role of Foundations
    From Philanthropy to Peace, Steve Killelea
    Tackling Global Problems: The Role of Foundations, Darren Walker
 
Financial Security and Stability
    Policy and Statistical Issues Underpinning Financial Stability: The IMF Perspective, Robert W. Edwards
 
Competitiveness, Innovation and Economic Growth
    Competitiveness, innovation and economic growth, Jean-Philippe Cotis
    International Integration and Societal Progress: A Critical Review of Globalisation Indicators, Philippe De Lombaerde and P. Lelio Iapadre
    Competitiveness, Innovation & Economic Growth, Ron Palmeri
 
Poverty and Social Exclusion
    Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage in Australia, Gary Banks
    Poverty and Social Exclusion: What do we know, and what do we need to know?, Luca Barbone
    Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies: Poverty and Exclusion, Judith Randel and Tony German
 
Power to the People: Indicators for Accountability
    Power to the People : Indicators for Accountability, Shailaja Chandra
 
Roundtable: What is Progress
    Surviving the 21st Century, Steve Killelea
 
Progress in Democracy and Human Rights
    Measuring Progress in Democracy and Human Rights: Why? How? To whom?, Jean Robert Suesser and Raul Suarez de Miguel
    Democracy and the measurement of progress, Adj Professor Mike Salvaris
    The Council of Europe’s Instruments contributing to the Progress of Societies, Andreas Siegel
 
Climate Change
    Energy and Climate Outlook, Dr. Fatih Birol
    Climate Change: adaptation, mitigation and the statistical system - The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report , Peter Bosch
    Climate Change A Statistician’s Perspective, Dennis Trewin
 
Global Cities
    Measuring a City’s Progress in a Global Context: The Boston Indicators Project, Charlotte Kahn
 
Evidence-Based Policy Making: Just a Myth or a Must?
    Shaping and Measuring Progress: New Directions In Using Knowledge To Achieve Social Goals, Geoff Mulgan
People’s Perceptions Vs. Reality: What Impacts on Policies and Democracy?
    What Does it Matter if the Public is Poorly Informed about Economics? Alan B. Krueger
    Perceptions vs. Reality: Impacts on Policies and Democracy, Robert Manchin
 
Building Statistical Capacity to Monitor the Progress of Societies
    National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS): A Framework for Building Statistical Capacity, Prof. Ben Kiregyera
    Techniques for Evaluating Public Policies in Developing Countries, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva
    Building Statistical Capacity To Monitor The Progress Of Societies, Romulo A. Virola
    Health Metrics Network, Sally Stansfield
 
Meeting the World’s Health Challenges
    Making Progress in Health and Health Care, Michael Wolfson and Denis Lievesley
 
Corporate Social Responsibility
    Is business able to demonstrate its contribution to progress of societies ? How to identify and assess companies social responsibility performances?, Nicole Notat
    Role of Private Sector for Susutainable Communities, Dr. Kadri ÖZEN
    Corporate Social Responsibility, Thierry Raes
    Google.org - Don’t be evil: Do be good , Alix Peterson Zwane
 
Roundtable: Entrepreneurship
    Entrepreneurship Indicators Project Developing Comparable Measures of Entrepreneurship and the Factors that Enhance or Impede It, Tim Davis
    The Danish Entrepreneurship Index, Anders Hoffmann
    The SME Policy Index - Methodology, data requirements and results: The case of the Western Balkans Countries, Antonio Fanelli
    New Successful Entrepreneurs in Italy: a Statistical Portrait and Factors Affecting the Success, Luigi Biggeri
    Enterprise Workshop,Turgay Maleri
 
Indicators of our Future: the World's Children
    Promoting the Well-Being of Children Through Child Indicators: An Approach to Data-Based Advocacy, Frank Farrow
    Measuring the dimensions of Child Labour, Frank Hagemann
    Indicators Of Our Future - The World's Children, Nicolas C. Pron
 
The Use and Abuse of Indicators
    The Use and Abuse of Indicators, Joachim Nahem
    Introducing Standard Indicators In European Commission Funded Projects For The Aggregation Of Aid Effects, Guy Doucet
 
How to Build a Knowledge Economy and How to Know When You Have One
    How to Build a Knowledge Economy and How to Know When You Have One, John Dryden
    Different Faces Of The Knowledge Economy, Luc Soete
 
Roundtable: Good Public Governance for Whom?
    Good Public Governance for Whom?, Franck Wiebe
 
The Development of Indicators for Local Communities
    Connecting Outcomes to Indicators - Community Assessment Projects in the United States A Focus on Santa Cruz County , Susan Brutschy
    The Development of Indicators for Local Communities, Professor John Wiseman
 
What People Know About Progress
    What U.S. Consumers Know About Economic Conditions, Richard Curtin
    What Do Citizens Know about Statistics: Results of an OECD- ISAE Survey on Italian Consumers, F. Fullone, M.Gamba, E. Giovannini, M. Malgarini
    Europeans Knoweledge On Economical Indicators, Antonis Papacostas
    Comment: On Making Statistics Valuable to the Public, Theodore M. Porter
 
Roundtable: Statistical Offices: Information Brokers or Knowledge Builders?
    The Future of Statistical Offices In The Knowledge Society, Enrico Giovannini
    Statistical Offices–Information Brokers or Knowledge Builders?, Hing-wang Fung
    Statistical Offices: Information Brokers or Knowledge Builders, Pali Lehohla
 
Citizens with Vision: The Impact of Social Entrepreneurship
    Citizens with vision: The Impact of Social Entrepreneurship, Roger Allen
    Decision-making in an Everyone a Changemaker World, Bill Drayton
    Citizens With A Vision: The Impact Of Social Entrepreneurship, Empar Martínez Bonafé
 
Developing and Emerging Countries: Better Statistics, Better Policy
    Real Progress - Shared Progress, Dr. Savas ALPAY
    Health Metrics Network, Sally Stansfield
 
Measuring and Improving Government Performance
    Measuring and Fostering the Performance of Governments, Arturo González de Aragón
    Measuring and Improving Government Performance, Joe Grice
 
Comprehensive Indicator Systems
    Comprehensive Indicator Systems, Ronette Engela
    Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives: A Global Directory of Comprehensive Indicator Systems, László Pintér and Henning Hansen
 
Fostering Progress: The Role of Non-profit Organisations
    Out Of The Shadows: Putting Civil Society on the Economic Map of the World, Lester M. Salamon
    The importance of Social Reality for Europe - An Application to Civil Participation, Marcel Canoy, Frédéric Lerais, Massimiliano Mascherini, Andrea Saltelli, Daniele Vidoni
 
Pensions
    Pension Funds in Portugal, José Pavăo Nunes
    Understanding retirement saving and pensions, Len Cook
    Global Pension Statistics and Indicators: Helping to Evaluate Countries Funded Pension Systems Worldwide,
 
Skills on the Move: How Migration Affects National Progress
    Out of The Shadows: Putting Civil Society on the Economic Map of the World, Lester M. Salamon
    The Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain, John P. Martin
    Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Urban Competitiveness, Jan Rath
 
Global Statistical Infrastructure: How To Build Consistency in Global Measurement
    Challenges of Data Collection - With Special Regard to Developing Countries, Asad Elahi
    An Effective Global Statistical System, Dennis Trewin
    International Standards for Compilation of Statistics: The Gap Between Standards Adoption and Standards Implementation, Katherine K. Wallman
 
Social Outcomes of Learning
    Good Practices in Basic Education in Latin America, Alberto Pfeifer
    Social Outcomes of Learning (SOL), Tom Schuller
    Societal well-being after experiencing trauma at the hand of “Others”: The intertwining of political, economic and other visible factors with hidden Psychological Processes Affecting Victimized Populations, Vamik Volkan
 
Culture and Creativity
    Measurement issues in relation to cultural statistics, Hendrik van der Pol
 
Human Capital: the Largest Share of a Nation's Wealth
    A Variety of Flavors of Human Capital: Incorporating Humanities and International Exposure into Education, Ali Dođramacý
    UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, Mary Louise Kearney
    Human Capital and the Older Worker The need for solid indicators, Peter Ester
 
Adult Skills and Working Opportunities
    OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), Andreas Schleicher
    Trends in Worker Requirements and the Need for Better Information to Make More Informed Decisions in a Global Economy, Randall W. Eberts
    Adult Skills and Working Opportunities – The contribution of the PIAAC project, Paolo Sestito
    Adult Skills and Working Opportunities (invited discussion), Irena Krizman
 
Surfing the Future: New Technology for the Next Generation
    Swivel, Sara Wood
    The Promise of Real-Time Information Flow: Giving Citizens Voice Managing With Knowledge, Paul Meyer
    Presentation by Jesse Robbins
 
The Gender Gap: Discrimination or Difference
    National Statistical Capacity To Produce Gender Statistics, Francesca Coullare
    Gender Equality and Economic Development , Louka T. Katseli
    The Gender Gap in Turkey, Meltem Kurtsan
 
Water: Safety and Sufficiency
    Drinking Water and Sanitation: can Africa fill the gap?, Lucia Wegner
    Water resources: measuring for management, Alan Hall
 
Biodiversity
    Monitoring and Responding to Biodiversity Loss: the Brazilian Experience, Joăo Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco
    The State of Ecosystems and Progress of Society, Odeh Al-Jayyousi
    Biodiversity, Jonathan Loh
    The State of Ecosystems and Progress of Society, Odeh Al-Jayyousi
 
National Progress and the Effectiveness of International Aid
    Developing Country Progress and the Effectiveness of International Aid, Maarten Brouwer
    The Role Of National Statistics System In Measuring And Fostering National Progress, (The Tunisian Experience), Ridha FERCHIOU
    Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TÝKA),Dr. Hakan FÝDAN
    National Progress and the Effectiveness of International Aid - Linking Resources to Results, Brian Hammond