e-Frame EU FP7 ProjectFinal Conference

Amsterdam, 10-11 February 2014

Overview of e-Frame outcomes

Marina Signoree-Frame Project CoordinatorDirector of Research, Istat

Donatella Fazioe-Frame Network CoordinatorSenior Statistician, Istat

e-Frame - European Framework for Measuring Progress

Coordination and support actions project • Duration from 1 January 2012 – 30 June 2014

• Consortium of 19 partners

• Co-chaired by Istat and Statistics Netherlands

aims at contributing to empower the European debate on “GDP and beyond” taking a broad approach on the theme and looking together at the social, economic, environmental dimensions in measuring human well-being and societal progress at different levels (e.g. global, national, and local)

e-Frame responds to the requests and needs of the EC to streamline on-going activities and results on “GDP and beyond” and to propose the way forward by stocktaking existing results; fostering EU networking; collecting and disseminating best practices and recommendations

e-Frame outcomes

Organisation of 9 Thematic Workshops and a Summer School

Preparation of Stocktaking reports on subject areas and specific topics including Guidelines and Recommendations

Creation of the European Network on Wikiprogress.org hosted by OECD (alongside the Regional Networks of Africa and Latin America)

e-Frame Initial Conference and European position at the 4th OECD World Forum. Implementation of the ESSC Sponsorship’s recommendations

e-Frame Final Conference presentation of project outputs; feedbacks for fine-tuning; sharing experiences and dialogue outside the project

Preparation of Policy Documents

1. Convergence report2. Handbook of policy use3. Roadmap for future research needs

FosteringEuropean Position

Contributing to the future EU agenda

Proposing the way forward

Research areas for better statistics on “GDP and beyond”

conceptual and methodological aspects (subject areas, indicators, measurements,…)

the implementation of the tools to collect, produce, disseminate and share data

the communication aspects

e-Frame Roadmap for future research needs

The Roadmap for future research needs

Research needs and information gaps identified by e-Frame activities (stocktaking reports, workshops discussions, AB advices..)

Areas to be further developed in order to empower the development, the understanding, dissemination and use of statistics on well-being and sustainable development

Proposing topics for future research projects in the context of Horizon 2020 as well as future EU projects according to ESS needs

A. topics concerning official statistics

B. topics related to a looking forward perspective

C. topics related to the usage of non official data

D. topics concerning communication side

ROADMAP 2nd TentativeJune 2013

A. Measurements issues in official statistics

• The European Statistical System is the main producer of reliable statistical information

• EU statistics on well-being and sustainable development are delivered by the ESS in accordance with quality framework principles (Code of Practice) and with goals and timetable set by the recommendations of the Sponsorship Group.

Result of e-Frame Initial Conference: Well-being agenda is well established at EU level.

A. Measurements issues in official statisticsContinue or further develop

• implementing subjective indicators

• constructing indicators at different levels: local, national, global

• disaggregating at the right dimension (target groups)

• harmonizing concepts, standards and definitions (metadata)

• improving timeliness

• developing indicators of sustainability

• training at University level

e-Frame Report on Subjective well-being

e-Frame Report on Measuring Progress at

the local level

e-Frame Report on New Measures of

International trade

e-Frame Summer School EMOS

QuoLexity Master

e-Frame Report on NSIs initiatives

e-Frame Report on macroeconomicindicators

e-Frame Report on Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe

B. Issues related to a looking forward perspective

• What do policy makers and advisors to policy makers still need?

• What models for supporting policies (e.g. trade-offs between dimensions, simulate the effects of doing and not-doing, ex-ante and ex-post evaluation) are needed?

EU position at the 4th OECD World Forum

e-Frame Handbook supports policy makers in •setting coherent policy targets •putting in place the right policy instruments to achieve these targets

C. Issues on the usage of non official data

• How can we enhance statistical information by exploiting new non official data sources?

• How can we foster the integration/complementarity of official and non official statistics?

• How can non official data contribute to near real-time information?

Exploiting Web2.0 opportunities and tools

C. Issues on the usage of non official data

BIG DATA Conference31 March – 1 April 2014

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• Need to develop technologies for the use of big data and open data in official statistical production

• Need to exploit crowd sourced locally generated data

• Need to bridge top-down and bottom-up approaches for the construction of statistics beyond GDP

• Need to evaluate the role for non-official data in a cost-benefit perspective

• Need to validate the quality of non-official data

• Need to “label” the non official data

e-FrameGuidelines for

stakeholders inclusion

D. Issues on the communication side (1/2)

• Need to foster the culture on the measurement of well being (target campaigns for diverse stakeholders)

• Need to find a common language among different disciplines

• Need to educate the opinion leaders on statistics beyond GDP (Data Journalism School)

• Need to inform and train the business world and educate the market to read new measurements of progress and well-being as a chance to catch

D. Issues on the communication side (2/2)

• Need to facilitate the communication to policy makers

• Need to find a wording for policy makers

• Need to develop visualization tools to improve the use of statistics and indicators

• Need to foster the involvement of society at large in statistics beyond GDP using the opportunities given by the Web2.0 platforms

e-FrameHandbook

e-FrameICT Catalogue

new FP7 Web-COSI

project

The roadmap identifies a number of “key issues” to be addressed in future research agendas at a European level in order to consolidate the availability and the use of indicators on well-being, progress and sustainable development

As available resources are limited, it is vital to join efforts and to coordinate research activities at a European level

Nevertheless, it would be recommended, as an initial step, to find a large consensus on setting priorities with regard to the above mentioned needs and to schedule the future actions in the light of the objectives of Horizon 2020

Multi stakeholders partnerships between NSIs, the academia and other relevant actors in the well-being debate is the way to follow to contribute to a large extent to reach faster and sounder results

Concluding

Istat e-Frame research team

Marina Signore and Donatella Fazio (Coordinators)

Maria Grazia Calza

Arianna Carciotto

Adolfo Morrone

Alessandra Righi

Tommaso Rondinella

www.eframeproject.eu

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