City Indicators - Now to Nanjing
Day / Time Thursday, June 22nd / 16:30 - 18:30
Event Description
City Indicators will build on existing work and designed to enable relatively quick and straightforward indications of a cityâ€Ts overall quality of life and efficiency of service provision. The work will be detailed and piloted and we anticipate presenting draft City Indicators at the World Urban Forum 4 in Nanjing, in 2008. This session will present a draft paper on City Indicators, reviewing the approaches and systems developed to date, as well as suggesting what we believe have been the strengths and shortcomings of many city indicator initiatives so far. The goal of the session is to provoke an interactive discussion and obtain feedback for the proposed work plan to Nanjing in 2008.
Session Language
English
French
Speakers
Makhtar Diop, Sector Director, LCFPSI, World Bank
John Burret, Senior Manager, Social Policy, Federation of Canadian Minucipalities
Nefise Bazoglu, Chief, Monitoring Systems Branch, UN-HABITAT
Host Organization
The World Bank
Report
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City Indicators: Now to Nanjing World Bank Thursday, June 22 (16:30-18:30). |
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2. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII? Improving information to better understand the dynamic of our cities; issue that is directly related to one sub-theme of WUFIII: The Shape of Cities: Urban Planning and Management |
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3. What were the main points raised by panellists and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generated as a result of the discussion? Panellists reviewed the approaches and systems developed to date, as well their strengths and shortcomings. Participants raised the importance of some traditional indicators already collected in many cities, as well as the value to collect new indicators such as number of homeless, well being and happy citizens, indicators on aboriginal people, etc. There was also a useful discussion in the methodological problems of measuring slums A very interested debated on whether or not to include subjective measures within city indicators was originated. |
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4. What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality? The initiative on city indicators presented in the networking event had identified six cities for the pilot phase. This initiative is already an operational reality. The event had allowed to identify many other cities interested in participating for the next phase. |
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