The 3rd OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy will be held in Busan, Korea on the 27th to 30th of October 2009.
The Forum entitled Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life will offer political leaders, leading thinkers and a wide range of key stakeholders the opportunity to:
- Challenge some of the contemporary notions of societal progress;
- Discuss new visions of progress, identify concrete post-crisis efforts for fostering the effective improvement of people’s lives and appropriate ways to measure it;
- Better understand the potential role that evidence-based debate amongst citizens could play in policy making and fostering societal change for the better;
- Promote the establishment of regional and national fora to support this process.
The Forum will attract some 1500 high level participants, and more than 200 authoritative speakers with a mixture of politicians, policy makers, heads of international organisations, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society from all over the world. For more information please click here