Information, accounting and statistics
Information and accounting systems can block innovation; in many cases, they will need to be re-organised to enable or re-enforce systemic change. What gets measured shapes what gets done. In many fields, attempts are underway to reshape measurement to better handle holistic systems effects. So while familiar data on income, employment, diseases or educational achievement continues to be gathered, there is growing interest in other types of measure that may give more insights into what needs to be done: for example focusing on fear of crime as well as crime; on cultures of health behaviour as well as physical disease; on trust in institutions as well as their formal processes.
Information systems that reinforce systemic change
Information systems that reinforce systemic change, for example ways of measuring emissions in real time, or that make costs and inefficiencies transparent. In developing systems of...
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Restructured public accounting and finance to create positive feedback loops that further systemic change, for example personal budgets in health that create constituencies for radical reorganisation....
Read moreMeasures of social progress
Since 2004 the OECD has been running a programme on new measures of social progress. In 2009 it launched Wikiprogress bringing together data and analysis on progress and...
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