Community:Portal
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Welcome to the Wikiprogress community portal. Here you can find out what is happening in the Wikiprogress community and how progress is being received around the globe. See media coverage of progress, what's new on Wikiprogress, articles we would like to be edited and interact with the community on the Community Notice Board.
In the Spotlight
Papers
Recently released papers
- OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of Inaction (March 2012)
- Progress on drinking water and sanitation (UNICEF/WHO March 2012)
- Life Beyond Growth (Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy, and Society March 2012)
- State of the World's Children 2012 (UNICEF February 2012)
- China 2030 Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative High-Income Society (World Bank February 2012)
- A Life Free from Hunger- Tackling child malnutrition (Save the Children February 2012)
- Caribbean Human Development Report 2012 (UNDP February 2012)
Calls for papers
Call for Chapters in the new Best Practices in Quality-of-Life Research Book Series. Deadline: August 31st, 2011. Click here for Submission Guidelines and details.
Call for abstracts - 3rd International Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators to be held at the University of York, UK 27-29 July 2011.
Media Review
Progress in the news
- Bhutan charms, but Shangri-La is no paradise (Reuters 28.05.2012)
- Asia is crucial to ending poverty (Bangkok Post 28.05.2012)
- Why Good Governance and Security Go Hand-in-Hand, By Obasanjo (All Africa 28.05.2012)
- Report shows drop in crime (The Guadian 28.05.2012)
- The New Economics of Happiness (The Atlantic 23.05.2012)
- The Crisis of European Democracy (The New York Times 23.05.2012)
- Bellingham falls in the top 100 happiest cities in America, 8th in smaller cities (TWF 23.05.2012)
- Better life- relaunching the happiness index (The Guardian 22.05.2012)
- Australia Tops OECD Better Life Index (Wall St Journal 22.05.2012)
Newsletters
- The Young Foundation Spring Newsletter April 2011
- McKinsey Quarterly April 2011 Newsletter
- New Economics Foundation e-letter March 2011
Newsletter Archives
Debates
This house believes that we are in a new tech bubble. (Debate Hosted by The Economist 14 - 24 June)
Positions in progress
Blog Review
Blog posts on progress
- The Egyptian revolution can still fulfil its promise (Poverty Matters 01.05.2012)
- Climate change is a human rights issue – and that's how we can solve it (The Guardian 24.04.2012)
- Happiness: Key to Development? (The Interdependent 13.04.2012)
- After the MDGs – avoiding the curse of the sequel (Global Dashboard 12.04.2012)
Interactive web 2.0 apps
- Collaborative budgeting and prioritizing tool called Buy-A-Feature used by community action members to create optimal budget in a period of many budget cuts.
- Global collaborative tool for measuring light pollution by Globe at Night.
- Better World Flux was created as an entry for the World Bank Apps for Development competition. Its aim is to raise awareness about the UN MDGs by letting users visualize and share stories they can find that are hidden in World Bank Open Data.
Special Media Reviews
Pages dedicated to media reviews on particular topics or important events in the measuring progress community:
- UN Women Report: Progress of the World's Women - Media Review
- Global Peace Index 2011 - Media Review
- Better life initiative - Media Review
- Action for Happiness - Media Review
- World Development Report 2011 - Media Review
- China to Measure Happiness - Guangdong - Media Review
- UK to Measure Happiness - Media Review
- Human Development Report 2010 - Media Review
Community Notice Board
Click here to access the Community notice board where you can interact with the progress community by posting questions and comments.
Guidance, Help and Resources
See guidelines and FAQ for content related questions. See help for questions on how to use the wiki. We are currently creating short videos to help guide you through the site. If you have any questions that are not answered on wikiprogress, please feel free to email us info@wikiprogress.org
Community Portal Archive
Please click here to see the Community Portal archives.
