Call for Presentations
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 24!
Proposals are invited for presentations and interactive sessions which run the gamut of designing, operating, implementing, communicating, maintaining, and evaluating indicator systems in different contexts of policy and community impact. We especially encourage concepts that introduce path-breaking strategies and case studies, cutting edge technologies and processes, and examples that offer inspiration or ask the tough questions that we all should hear.
Proposals are invited for panel discussions, session presentations, papers, poster sessions, and "ignite" talks, or propose your own innovative format.
Tracks and Themes
Proposals may fit within the following themes, identified as key leverage points for impact:
Healthy People, Healthy Communities: These sessions will include the work of local health innovators – community residents, public and private agencies, and foundations – working to assess and address health disparities and improve the fundamental drivers of health.
Education Pipeline: These sessions will detail initiatives to track trends and measure progress in learning and education from “cradle to career,” meaning from early childhood to professional development and lifelong learning.
Sustainability and Regional Equity: Does employing an indicators approach truly serve the challenges of setting and moving toward sustainability, climate neutrality, and other holistic goals in our communities? What are the most promising innovations and hardest learned lessons in sustainability indicators in defining a new development path?
Economic Development and Innovation: How are indicators approaches employed to support initiatives to generate jobs, bring economic opportunities to communities, and weather long-term economic shifts?
Across all these thematic focus areas, the following cross-cutting themes will be addressed:
Local to Global: Data, Indicators, and Tools - What are the most appropriate and effective scales for successful indicator projects? Are there trade-offs to negotiate in engaging at the neighborhood, community, and regional scales in making our work count? What value is to be gained at home from connecting with global efforts to measure progress and redefine quality of life?
Approaches: Collective Impact, Results-Based Accountability, Measuring Impact, etc. - How do we achieve the change that our targets demand? What frameworks are working to create impact? How do we create the partnerships and collaborations that give us the best information, respect community priorities and support strategic action?
Community Indicators-Performance Measures Integration: Building on a recurrent theme from previous CIC conferences, these sessions will explore recent developments and promising opportunities for integrating community indicators and performance measures through case studies and applications.
Equity and Addressing Poverty: We will explore the notion that in the context of wealthy countries, it is the relative disparity between those at the top and the bottom of the income distribution in communities that is the source of disadvantage and that prevents progress on many levels.
Instructions and Timeline
The deadline for submissions is May 24, 2012. (EXTENDED DEADLINE!)
Proposals will be reviewed by CIC for their completeness, relevance, and timeliness for the conference. Selection of submissions for presentation at the conference will be at the discretion of CIC. CIC will generally limit presentations to one per attendee in order to ensure that the most voices are heard.
Presenters selected will be eligible for the early bird rate for conference admission. Presenters will be asked for an electronic submission of their presentation or associated paper before the conference date for inclusion in the conference e-proceedings.
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