ACADEMY OF LABOR
AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

FEDERAL STATE
STATISTICS SERVICE

Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies:
A New Approach for CIS and Eastern European Countries
Moscow, 29-30 September 2008

29 September
9.00 - 9.30	Registration
9.30 - 9.45	Welcoming remarks Vladimir Sokolin, Head of Rosstat Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician, OECD Aleksey Shulus, Rector, Academy of Labour and Social Relations
9.45 - 11.00	Session 1. Why is measuring progress so important for policy making? Chair (Enrico Giovannini, OECD)
9.45 - 10.05	Viktor Kalmykov, Deputy Director of Department of Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
10.05 - 10.25	Mikhail Shmakov, Chairman, Federation of Independent Trade Unions, Russian Federation
10.25 - 10.45	Alexander Piskunov, Auditor of the Russian Federation
10.45 - 11.05	Enrico Giovannini, OECD
11.05 - 11.15	Questions and General Discussion
11.15 - 11.40	Coffee Break
11.40 - 13.15	Session 2. What is progress? Chair: Irina Yasina, Head of Regional Journalist Club, Russian Federation
11.40 - 11.50	A framework for progress Jon Hall, OECD
11.50 - 13.15	Roundtable Debate: "What are the key measures for CIS and Eastern European countries' progress" Elena Ivanova, First Deputy Director, Audit Chambers' System Analysis Institute Leonid Gohberg, First Vice-Rector, State University - Higher School of Economy, Russian Federation Migrand Shabozov, Chairman of State Statistical Committee of Tajikistan Sergey Ulanov, Head of Center for Stady of Level and Quality of Life Zhoslan Omarov, Deputy Chairman of Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan Arkady Martynov, Deputy Director of International Institute of Social Development Stanislav Shmelev, Senior Researcher, Center for the Environment, Oxford University Boris Iskakov, Deputy Head of Department of Informatics and Statistics of the Moscow Banking Institute
13.15 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 18.30	Session 3. What aspects of progress are the most important for CIS and Eastern European countries... And how do we measure them? Chair: Vladimir Sokolin, Head of Rosstat
14.30 - 15.40	Progess in the Region
14.30 -14.45	Maria Joao Santos, Head of Section, Statistical co-operation with International Organisations and Higher Income Countries, Eurostat Ann Nilsson, Statistical Assistant, Eurostat "Measurement of progress in the EU and in the CIS region"
14.45 - 15.00	Konstantin Mikulsky, Director of International Institute of Social Development "Transformation of Public System in Russian and CIS at the Turn of the Century: Criteria for Progress in Transition Period and Its Conformity with Reality"
15.00 - 15.15	Geurt van de Kerk, President of Sustainable Society Foundation, The Netherlands Ciprian Popovici, Green Partners - Romania "The Sustainable Society Index - a novel tool for measuring progress towards sustainability"
15.15 - 15.30	Vasily Simchera, Director Statistics Institute of Rosstat "Chronological Changes of Historical Progress Trends"
15.30 - 15.40	Questions and General Discussion
15.40 - 16.50	Measuring Good Governance
15.40 - 15.55	Bjorn Forde, Head of UNDP Governance Centre "Measurement Needs National Ownership - Role of UNDP"
15.55 - 16.10	Vladimir Meshkov, Director of National Institute of Social Audit, Russian Federation "Social Audit in Social Management System"
16.10 - 16.25	Jan-Robert Suesser, Director, ADETEF France "How to ensure measurement of governance in CIS countries is both relevant and useful"
16.25 - 16.40	Yelena Panfilova, Director of Transparency International Russia "Influence of corruption costs on the development of social capital"
16.40 - 16.50	Questions and General Discussion
16.50 - 17.20	Coffee Break
17.20 - 18.30	Measurement of Progress and Sustainable Development
17.20 - 17.40	Alexander Bedritsky, Head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Russian Federation "Hydrometeorology Security and Sustainable Development of Russia"
17.40 - 18.00	Maxim Boroda, Project Manager, International Center for Policy Studies "Potential and Performance: Ukraine"
18.00 - 18.20	Peter Jozan, Senior Counsellor, Hungarian Central Statistical Office "The Modified Human Development Index and Its Applicability for Measuring Progress of Societies, the Hungarian Experience"
18.20 - 18.30	Questions and General Discussion
18.30	Cocktail Reception
30 September
9.00 - 12.30	Session 4. Making It Happen - The Operational and Institutional Issues Chair: Richard Ragnarson, EFTA
9.00 - 10.30	Measuring Progress: Designing Indicators and Building Consensus
9.00 - 9.20	Aleksey Shulus, Rector, Academy of Labour and Social Relations "Russia and the advanced countries: a comparative analysis of socio-economic development"
9.20 - 9.40	Vladimir Sokolin, Head of Rosstat "Reforming Russian Statistics in the Interests of Civil Society and the State: Experience and Issues"
9.40 -10.00	Eszter Bago, Deputy President, Hungarian Central Statistical Office "Establishing Indicators for Measuring Social Progress in Hungary"
10.00 - 10.20	Emira Becic, Head of Unit, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Republic of Croatia "S &T and Innovation Statistics as tool for measurement progress in innovation performance"
10.20 - 10.40	Vladimir Litvinov, Deputy Director General of Russian Center for Living Standards "Measuring and Fostering the Progress in Living Standards"
10.40 - 11.00	General Discussion
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30	The importance of bringing information to citizens
11.30 - 11.50	Director-General, Google Moscow
11.50 - 12.10	Marat Guriev, Director of State Programs, IBM-Russia Title of presentation to be confirmed
12.10 - 12.30	Alexander Khoroshilov, Vice-Rector, Academy of Labour and Social Relations "Instrumental Tools for Monitoring of Socio-Economic Developmeтt of Territories"
12.30 - 13.00	Wrap-up Vladimir Sokolin, Head of Rosstat Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician, OECD Aleksey Shulus, Rector, Academy of Labour and Social Relations
Room Papers:
Vyachelav Sokolov, Chief Researcher of Department of Research and Information of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation "To the Problem of the Criteria of Progress"
Vasily Simchera, Director of Statistics Institute of Rosstat "Knowledge As the Foundation of Progress (Experience of Development of Knowledge in Russia for 100 Years)"
Gennady Chudilin, Head of Samarastat "The Regional Statistics in Sistem of Innovation Society"