Community Indicators Consortium August Newsletter

The Community Indicators Consortium has released their August 2007 newsletter (PDF). The newsletter contains the following:

• Letter from the President, Allen Lomax, calling for increased involvement from those in the indicators field to work together to build a network of practitioners and interested parties;
• A report from Alex Michalos on his involvement with the OECD World Forum, the presentation he gave, and his reactions to the Istanbul Declaration;
• An article by Lisa Capoccia on the growth of the Toronto Vital Signs model throughout Canada, with 11 cities scheduled to release their own Vital Signs report this October;
• A write-up of the Inland Northwest conference on community indicators;
• A link to the new CIC paper, “Creating Stronger Linkages between Community
  Indicator Projects and Government Performance Measures”, available on the CIC website (PDF);
• Upcoming conferences and events dealing with community indicators; and
• A call for articles for future newsletters.

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