3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, Korea, 2009

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Background

The 3rd OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” was held in Busan, Korea on 27-30 October 2009.

This OECD World Forum focused on Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life and attracted high level participants with a mixture of politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society from many countries. The 3rd OECD World Forum, was organised by the OECD and the Government of Korea (Korean National Statistical Office).

The Forum focused on three major questions: What does progress mean for our societies?; What are the new paradigms to measure progress?; and How can there be better policies within these new paradigms to foster the progress of our societies? The economic crisis made these questions even more important.

The forum gathered close to 2000 participants from more than 100 countries including; politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society. We would like to sincerely thank all the speakers and participants who attended this successful event.

The working sessions confirmed the relevance and potential policy impact of the many on-going initiatives over the globe aimed at enhancing frameworks, processes, methods and tools for measuring and fostering the progress of societies.The conclusions of the 3rd World Forum marked the beginning of a new challenging and intense working phase for the community of partners, associates, correspondents and sponsors that sustains the Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies". In this next phase we sincerely hope that we can continue to count with your advice, support and substantive contributions. Read more about the conclusions of the 3rd OECD World Forum.

Speakers

 The forum attracted a large number of high profile speakers including:

• Fabrizio Barca, Director General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy
• Ohm Collins Chabane, Minister in The Presidency, South Africa
• Juan Díez-Nicolás, President of ASEP, Spain
• Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships
• John Evans, General Secretary of Trade Union Advisory Council to the OECD (TUAC)
• David Gruen, Executive Director, Macroeconomic Group, The Treasury, Australia
• Angel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD
• Oh-Seok Hyun, President, Korea Development Institute, KDI
• Katsuji Imata, Deputy Secretary General of CIVICUS
• Jeni Klugman, Director of the UNDP Human Development Report Office
• Tae-shin Kwon, Minister, Prime Minister's Office, Korea
• Yanghee Lee, Chair of the UN Commission on the Rights of the Child
• Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner for Planning, Morocco
• Denise Lievesley, President of the international Statistical Institute
• Antonio Marzano, President, International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS) and President of National Economic and Labour Council (CNEL)
• Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation, UK
• Mark Orkin, Director General, South African Management Development Institute, SAMDI
• Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
• Roger Ricafort, Director, Oxfam Hong Kong
• Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Columbia University, New York
• Danilo Türk, President of Slovenia
• Anders Wijkman, Vice-President of the Club of Rome
• Insill Yi, Commissioner, Statistics Korea
• Soogil Young, President, National Strategy Institute (NSI), Korea

Please click here to view the speaker biographies, shown in the order that they appear in the Agenda.

International Exhibition

The International Exhibition at the OECD 3rd World Forum focused on issues related to "Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life" Read more

The scope included new technologies for visualizing statistics, initiatives to measure and foster quality of life at local and national levels, eco-friendly green technology and with a particular focus on promoting green growth and social cohesion. The Exhibition held 57 booths (stands) in total, 23 were International Exhibitor booths and 34 Korean Exhibitor booths. See the complete International Exhibition layout with the number and names of booth on the picture of the Floor Plan .

Commitments and Conclusions

• At the closing of the 3rd OECD World Forum, Pier-Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD presented the OECD RoadMap. It was announced and highlights OECD's policy, strategy and commitments to measure and foster well-being and progress "Measuring and fostering well-being and progress: the OECD roadmap"

• Wikiprogress was launched at the 3rd OECD World Foum 2009 (Korea).

• Read the dynamic speech given by Mike Salvaris, which was presented at the closing session of the 3rd OECD World Forum: Commitments and Conclusion Session
  

Awards

The awards panel was made up of a mixture of people from different regions of the world and from various organisations. They reviewed, discussed and choose the winners, as well as selecting the categories.

Awards Judges Panel:

Dr. Sulhee Kim: Director General, Statistics Korea (South Korea)

Prof. Nicholas Nicodemus Nana Nsowah-Nuamah: Professor, Ghana University. (Ghana)

Tania Guzman Pardo: Associated Researcher, UNDP (Columbia)

Dr. Juan Pedro Laclette: Coordinator General, Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico (Mexico)

Dr. Jussi Simpura: Research Professor & Strategy Advisor, National Institute for Health and Welfare (Finland)

Deanna Zachary: Project Manager, Applied Survey Research (USA)

Sue West: Research Fellow, McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Award Winners:

Best Operational Initiative: Jaeyeol Yee and Dukun Chang: Professors from the Department of Sociology, Seoul National University and Institute for Social Development and Policy Research (session 2.2b)

Best New Indicators Initiative: Milorad Kovacevic from the UNDP for the work on Bosnia and Herzegovina (session 1.1c)

Best New Indicator Initiative for Engaging Citizens: Michel Renault and Yves Franchet for their initiative, Political and Ethical Knowledge on Economic Activities (PEKEA) Research Program (session 2.2f)

Best New National Initiative: Mariano Rojas for the initiative Midiendo el Progreso de las Sociedades: Perspectiva desde Mexico (session 2.2b)

Best Use of New Technology in a Report: Ulla Rosenstrom from the Prime minister’s office for their new project, Findicators (session 2.4f)

Best Exhibitor: Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Best Exhibitor stand: Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) http://kostat.go.kr/eng

Forum Papers, Abstracts and Presentations

See below a selection of abstracts, papers and presentations from the forum.

• Enrico Giovannini, President, Italian National Statistics Institute, ISTAT, Italy, Paper, Presentation 
• Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam GB, UK, Abstract, Paper
• Jon Hall, OECD Manager of the Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, Presentation
• Fabrizio Barca, Director General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy, Presentation 
• Ohm Collins Chabane, Minister in The Presidency, South Africa, Presentation 
• Insill Yi, Commissioner, Statistics Korea, Abstract, Paper
• Juan Díez-Nicolás, President of ASEP, Spain, Abstract, Presentation

• John Evans, General Secretary of Trade Union Advisory Council to the OECD (TUAC), Abstract, Presentation
• David Gruen, Executive Director, Macroeconomic Group, The Treasury, Australia, Paper 
• Angel Gurría, Secretary General of the OECD, Speech

• Katsuji Imata, Deputy Secretary General of CIVICUS, Abstract, Presentation
• Jeni Klugman, Director of the UNDP Human Development Report Office, Presentation

• Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner for Planning, Morocco, Abstract
• Denise Lievesley, President of the international Statistical Institute, Presentation 
• Antonio Marzano, President, International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS) and President of National Economic and Labour Council (CNEL), Abstract
• Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation, UK, Abstract, Presentation  
• Mark Orkin, Director General, South African Management Development Institute, SAMDI, Abstract, Presentation 
• Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD, Presentation 
• Roger Ricafort, Director, Oxfam Hong Kong, Abstract, Presentation 
• Anders Wijkman, Vice President, Club of Rome, President, GLOBE-EU,Board member, Tällberg Foundation, and Expert Group Chairman for the Commission on Climate Change and Development, Abstract, Presentation
• Danilo Türk, President of Slovenia, Speech

• Soogil Young, President, National Strategy Institute (NSI), Korea, Presentation
• Anat Itay, Project Leader, Israel's Progress Index, The Israeli Society for Sustainable Economics, Abstract, Paper, Presentation
• Brian Pink, Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Maintaing the Momentum in Australia, Paper

Media review

The Global Project Media Review

Media Review - 3rd OECD World Forum, Korea 2009

See also

• 1st World Forum in Palermo, Italy
• 2nd World Forum in Istanbul, Turkey
• The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies
• The Global Project Past Events