From OECD's Civil Society Newsletter - March 2010:
Wikiprogress - A new interactive site for societal well-being invites civil society to the community
The Global Project for Measuring the Progress of Societies fosters the development of economic, social and environmental indicators to provide acomprehensive picture of how the well-being of a society is evolving. It also seeks to encourage the use of indicators to inform and promote evidence-based decision-making, within and across the public, private and citizen sectors. The project is open to all sectors of society and particularly invites members of civil society to get involved, building both on good practice and innovative research work. In October 2009 at the The 3rd OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” Busan Korea, the Global Project announced the launch of www.wikiprogress.org, which provides a unique forum for sharing data and analysis on the measurement of environmental, social and economic well-being and communicating these tools to policy makers and the wider public. Developing better indicators and awareness is not enough. We also need to ensure that the measures become widely used, and widely understood – not just by statisticians, but by all those interested in societal progress. We invite civil society to go to wikiprogress and become a part of the community for societal progress by sharing in initiatives, best practices and data. Wikiprogress.stat has also just been launched which is bringing together progress-related data into one place. Examples of such data currently include The Happy Planet Index and the Global Peace Index. For further information, please contact angela.hariche@oecd.org.