Agenda

10ª Reunión de Ministros de la Presidencia y Equivalentes de Iberoamérica
in co-operation with the OECD and PARIS21

“Measuring the Progress of Societies: Information System for Heads of Government”

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 12 -13 de October2006

Thursday October 12

7:30-8:30 / Transportation of Participants from the Hotels to the ConferenceCenter
7:30 – 9:00 / Registration of Participants
Plenary Sessions
9:00 – 10:00 / memorandum of Understanding for the Management and Co-ordination of RIMPE
Cartagena de indiasConferencecenter. Dress – Casual.
Francisco Santos Calderón, Vice President, Colombia
10:00 – 10:15 / Official Photo
10:15 – 10:45 / Memorandum of Understanding for the Management and Co-ordination of RIMPED. Miguel Hakim
10:45-11:00 / Break
11:00 – 12:00 / Statistics, Knowledge and Policy
Chair: Alberto Ortega (President’s Public Policy office, Mexico)
Speaker: Enrico Giovannini (Chief Statistician, OECD)
Speaker: Raul Suarez ( PARIS21)
Speaker: Gilberto Calvillo (President, National Institute of Statistics, INEGI, Mexico)
12:00 – 13:00 / Presentation of the Strategic Information System for the Heads of Government
D. Antonio Millán, México
13:00 – 14:30 / Lunch
Parallel Sessions
OECD and PARIS 21 / RIMPE
14:30-15:15 / 14:30-15:30
14:30-17:00 / Building Statistics and Indicators for Development
Chair: Rodrigo Fernando Acosta Trujillo (Chief Economist, National Planning Department, Colombia)
Speaker: Ricardo Olmos (Deputy Director of Statistics, El Salvador)
Discussant: Jean-Paul Vasquez (Regional Statistics Advisor, PARIS21)
Discussant: Juan Chavarria, INEC, Costa Rica / Implementation Strategy of the Strategic Information System for Heads of Government in RIMPE Member Countries
15:15-16:15 / 15:30-16:30
Communicating Statistics and Indicators to Citizens and Policy Makers
Chair: Guillermo Bluske, (Director of International Relations, INDEC (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses))
Speaker: Christopher Hoenig (Chairman, Executive Group, The Key National Indicators Initiative, USA; Vice President of Strategy, Global Business Services, IBM)
Speaker: Karina Batthyány (Head Researcher, Social Watch) / Co-ordination of Relationships with Parliaments
16:15-17:00 / 16:30-17:00
Discussion / Discussion
17:00 – 17:30 / Break
Plenary Sessions
17:30-18:30 / Roundtable: What is Progress and how to Measure it
Chair: Ernesto Rojas Morales (Chief Statistician, Colombia)
Speaker: Jon Hall (Manager, OECD World Forum Project)
Discussant: Chris Hoenig (Chairman, Executive Group, The Key National Indicators Initiative, USA; Vice President of Strategy, Global Business Services, IBM)
18:30-20:00 / Cocktail and Folklore of Colombia
20:00 / Transportation to hotels

Friday 13 October

8:00-8:45 / Transportation of Participants from the Hotels to ConferenceCenter
Plenary Sessions
09:00 – 9:45 / How to Make Official Statistics More Relevant in Latin American Countries
Chair: Raul Suarez (metagora)
Speaker: Marta Lagos, Latinobarometer
Speaker:Juan Falconi, Andina Community / RIMPE
9:45-10:30 / Millennium Development Goals and National progress
Chair: Zulma Sosa, Director General, National Statistical Institute, Paraguay
Speaker: Roberto Salcedo-Aquina (Deputy Auditor General, Mexico)
Speaker: Roberto Thompson (Vice minister of the Presidency, Costa Rica)
10:30 – 10:45 / Break
Parallel Sessions
OECD and PARIS 21 / RIMPE
10:45 – 11:45 / Measuring Democracy and Human Rights
Chair: Sergio Sanchez (Director of Statistics, Honduras)
Speaker: Raul Suarez (Metagora)
Speaker: Gloria Labastida (Director General, Fundar, Mexico) / The Professionalisation of Public Administration
D. Fernando Grillo Rubiano
11:45 – 13:15 / 11:45-12:45 / 11:45-12:00
How to Involve Society in Defining and Monitoring Progress
Chair: Speaker: Maria Lucia Roa (Representative, ASHOKA, Colombia) / Discussion
12:45-13:15 / 12:00-12:30
Inform the IBERGOP
12:30-13:00
Presentation of the OECD Factbook
Enrico Giovannini (Chief Statistician, OECD) / RIMPE Elections
13:00-13:15
Official Signature of the Agreements of the 10th RIMPE Meeting
13:15-15:30 / Lunch and Closing of RIMPE
  • Message from the President of the Secretariat, D. Bernardo Moreno Villegas
  • Message from the President of the 11th Meeting of RIMPE

Plenary Sessions
15:30 / Transportation of Participants
OECD y PARIS21
15:30 – 17:30 / Measuring the Progress of Society: What have we Learnt?
ROUNDTABLE ON main conclusions, next steps, networkbuilding, etc.
17:30 / Transportation of participants

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