Community Indicators Consortium February Newsletter

The Community Indicators Consortium (CIC) just sent out its February 2008 newsletter, and I thought I'd share some highlights with you. (CIC's newsletters are available online here -- and you can ask them to be put on the e-mail list to get future newsletters as released.)

The newsletter includes a write-up of the latest ISQOLS (International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies) conference in San Diego, the OECD World Forum in Istanbul, and the Beyond GDP Conference in Brussels. It also includes a summary of the 2007 accomplishments of the Community Indicators Consortium in a message from the president.

There's an additional message to pay attention to. King County, Washington, has been doing some really interesting work in integrating performance measures and community indicators projects. Their effort, King County AIMs High: Annual Indicators & Measures, is a big step forward in this area. Read the article by Michael Jacobson, King County's Performance Management Director, and check out the website. This intersection of citizen governance and government accountability is one of the puzzle pieces that we should be working to put together over the next few years.