Putting Well-being Metrics into Policy Action, 3-4 October 2019, Paris, France. More information at: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/putting-well-being-metrics-into-policy-action.htm
Group discussion, Group III, on public policies for large scale adoption of climate smart agriculture, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
This gives an outline of how I think sustainable development should work - and the type of questions it generates for each of the main areas of policy.
Group discussion, Group III, on public policies for large scale adoption of climate smart agriculture, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
This gives an outline of how I think sustainable development should work - and the type of questions it generates for each of the main areas of policy.
“IFPRI Egypt Webinars” is a special edition of the IFPRI Egypt Seminar Series funded by USAID. This webinar took place under the title of “COVID-19 and social protection: from effective crisis protection to self-reliance”
This presentation was made by Eileen Regan and Matthew Wilson , at the 3rd Experts Meeting on Gender Budgeting held at the OECD Conference Centre, Paris, on 19-20 September 2019
Asia-Pacific RCEs on ESD Response to COVID-19ESD UNU-IAS
Asia-Pacific RCEs on ESD Response to COVID-19
Prof. Dr. Munirah Ghazali and Dr. Rabiatul Adawiah Ahmad Rashid, RCE Penang
13th Asia-Pacific Regional RCE Meeting
2nd Online Session, 24 September, 2020
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN AND TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLANSarda Laishram
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN AND TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLAN
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN
AIMS
GOALS
PRIORITIES
BOUND GOALS
MAJOR OBJECTIVES#
TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLAN
OUTCOME INDICATE OF TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLAN
Unplanned pregnancies, including teenage pregnancy, perpetuated by low demand for, and lack of access to family planning are linked with higher risks of birth complications such as maternal deaths and early child deaths, and malnutrition in children under-five.
Can the success of one social or economic goal affect the success of many others? According to this report, yes. Policy goals cannot be addressed individually, especially as the world becomes more resource constrained. Interconnected strategies and cross-sector co-operation are becoming increasingly important.
Evolving development goals in an evolving world is an EIU report, sponsored by Microsoft, that explores how policymakers in both the developed and developing world prioritise social and environmental goals.
“IFPRI Egypt Webinars” is a special edition of the IFPRI Egypt Seminar Series funded by USAID. This webinar took place under the title of “COVID-19 and social protection: from effective crisis protection to self-reliance”
This presentation was made by Eileen Regan and Matthew Wilson , at the 3rd Experts Meeting on Gender Budgeting held at the OECD Conference Centre, Paris, on 19-20 September 2019
Asia-Pacific RCEs on ESD Response to COVID-19ESD UNU-IAS
Asia-Pacific RCEs on ESD Response to COVID-19
Prof. Dr. Munirah Ghazali and Dr. Rabiatul Adawiah Ahmad Rashid, RCE Penang
13th Asia-Pacific Regional RCE Meeting
2nd Online Session, 24 September, 2020
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN AND TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLANSarda Laishram
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN AND TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLAN
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN
AIMS
GOALS
PRIORITIES
BOUND GOALS
MAJOR OBJECTIVES#
TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLAN
OUTCOME INDICATE OF TWELVETH FIVE YEAR PLAN
Unplanned pregnancies, including teenage pregnancy, perpetuated by low demand for, and lack of access to family planning are linked with higher risks of birth complications such as maternal deaths and early child deaths, and malnutrition in children under-five.
Can the success of one social or economic goal affect the success of many others? According to this report, yes. Policy goals cannot be addressed individually, especially as the world becomes more resource constrained. Interconnected strategies and cross-sector co-operation are becoming increasingly important.
Evolving development goals in an evolving world is an EIU report, sponsored by Microsoft, that explores how policymakers in both the developed and developing world prioritise social and environmental goals.
Rubrix is a publication by Yayasan MENDAKI's Research and Planning Department. This issue, "Building a Strong United Singapore", shares on the shifts in the Education landscape and its implications. It also touches on the highlights during the M3 Post-budget Policy Dialogue.
1. This weeks written activity is a three- part activity. You wilTatianaMajor22
1. This week's written activity is a three- part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare your paper as one research paper. Be sure to include at least one UC library source per prompt, in addition to your textbook (which means you'll have at least 4 sources cited).
Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.
Prompt 1 "Data Warehouse Architecture" (2-3 pages): Explain the major components of a data warehouse architecture, including the various forms of data transformations needed to prepare data for a data warehouse. Also, describe in your own words current key trends in data warehousing.
Prompt 2 "Big Data" (2-3 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how you’ve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology?
Prompt 3 “Green Computing” (2-3 pages): One of our topics in Chapter 13 surrounds IT Green Computing. The need for green computing is becoming more obvious considering the amount of power needed to drive our computers, servers, routers, switches, and data centers. Discuss ways in which organizations can make their data centers “green”. In your discussion, find an example of an organization that has already implemented IT green computing strategies successfully. Discuss that organization and share your link. You can find examples in the UC Library.
Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section.
The paper needs to be approximately 7-10 pages long, including both a title page and a references page (for a total of 9-12 pages). Be sure to use proper APA formatting and citations to avoid plagiarism.
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
• Be approximately seven to ten pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course, the course textbook, and at least three scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find supplemental resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.
The ‘S’ in ESG gains currency
-Gender equality and human rights are benchmarkers for companies
-Inequality in wages lead to lesser economic output which can lower GDP by 10%-30%
-Gender equality needs to be larger than wage gap (maternity/paternity leave, career advancement, and go beyond legal minimums)
-Gender equality leads to outperforming competition
-COVID-19 has brought these social issues to light
Why Diversity and Inclusion Matters
The more diverse companies (gender and ethnic diversity) are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peer ...
From dashboards to decision-making: Adapting complex information on well-bein...StatsCommunications
Session 1 of the virtual event series on Implementing a well-being approach to policy and international partnerships in Latin America, 28-30 June 2022, More information at: https://www.oecd.org/wise/lac-well-being-metrics.htm
Governance as an SDG Accelerator: Country Experiences and ToolsOECD Governance
Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a formidable governance challenge for countries at all levels of development. It requires governments to co-ordinate, consult and work across policy areas – as well as with the businesses sector and civil society – in an unprecedented way. This report provides evidence from OECD countries and partner economies on how public governance practices can be strengthened to help implement the SDGs. For more information see:http://www.oecd.org/gov/pcsd/governance-as-an-sdg-accelerator-0666b085-en.htm
Presentation from Tatsuyoshi Oba, Executive Manager of Group HR Division, Persol Holdings during the OECD WISE Centre & Persol Holdings Workshop on Advancing Employee Well-being in Business and Finance, 22 November 2023
Presentation from Amy Browne, Stewardship Lead, CCLA Investment Management, during the OECD WISE Centre & Persol Holdings Workshop on Advancing Employee Well-being in Business and Finance, 22 November 2023
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Data Centers - Striving Within A Narrow Range - Research Report - MCG - May 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) expects to see demand and the changing evolution of supply, facilitated through institutional investment rotation out of offices and into work from home (“WFH”), while the ever-expanding need for data storage as global internet usage expands, with experts predicting 5.3 billion users by 2023. These market factors will be underpinned by technological changes, such as progressing cloud services and edge sites, allowing the industry to see strong expected annual growth of 13% over the next 4 years.
Whilst competitive headwinds remain, represented through the recent second bankruptcy filing of Sungard, which blames “COVID-19 and other macroeconomic trends including delayed customer spending decisions, insourcing and reductions in IT spending, energy inflation and reduction in demand for certain services”, the industry has seen key adjustments, where MCG believes that engineering cost management and technological innovation will be paramount to success.
MCG reports that the more favorable market conditions expected over the next few years, helped by the winding down of pandemic restrictions and a hybrid working environment will be driving market momentum forward. The continuous injection of capital by alternative investment firms, as well as the growing infrastructural investment from cloud service providers and social media companies, whose revenues are expected to grow over 3.6x larger by value in 2026, will likely help propel center provision and innovation. These factors paint a promising picture for the industry players that offset rising input costs and adapt to new technologies.
According to M Capital Group: “Specifically, the long-term cost-saving opportunities available from the rise of remote managing will likely aid value growth for the industry. Through margin optimization and further availability of capital for reinvestment, strong players will maintain their competitive foothold, while weaker players exit the market to balance supply and demand.”
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Algorithmic optimizations for Dynamic Levelwise PageRank (from STICD) : SHORT...
Putting well being metrics into policy action, Joseph Lowe
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The Green Book and Wellbeing – OECD Workshop Oct 2019
The Green Book
And its Supplements
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Just “Google” HM
Treasury Green
Book
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Wellbeing as a Macro Concept
❑Criticism of the limitations of GDP
❑Wellbeing proposed as a way of
supplementing GDP or
❑Seen by some as possibly replacing GDP as
a central policy aim
❑Yet much of the time we are looking at
problems through a Micro not a Macro view.
❑What role can wellbeing metrics play in the
applied micro policy space?
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Paragraph 2.3 of the Green Book 2018 says..
“Appraisal is based on the principles of
welfare economics – that is, how the
government can
improve social welfare or wellbeing,
referred to in the Green Book as social value.”
Wellbeing and the UK 2018 Green Book
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Tension Intrinsic to Public Service Decisions
Enormous Demand & Multiple Ends Vs Limited Resources
Service
Demand
Protection by
Regulation
DEMAND MORE
Tax and
Spending
Red Tape
DEMAND LESS
Objective
Social Value for Money
Decision-Support
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Where in the decision
process can we currently
best apply wellbeing ?
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Outcomes & Benefits
Political, Economic, Social, Technological,
Legal, Environmental issues
New and Improved Services
Projects and related activities
Programmes
Policies, Strategies, Initiatives and Targets
shape
define and prioritise
initiate, align and monitor
implement and deliver
achieve and realise
Policies, Strategies, Programmes and Projects
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Management
Strategic
Financial
Economic
Commercial
Five Interdependent Dimensions of the
Five Case Model
What is the case for
change and how does it
provide strategic fit?
What is the best
choice for
optimising social
value?
What is the
Deal and can
the supply side
deliver it?
Is it affordable
within budget
•Are the
necessary
arrangements
in place for
successful
delivery?
Output
Outcomes
RISK
Wellbeing
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Implementation
Change
Measurement
Rationale
Appraisal
SMART
OBJECTIVES
PROGRAMMES
AND PROJECTS
NET POSITIVE
= BENEFIT
NET NEGATIVE
= COST (RISK)
OUTCOMES
OUTPUTS
Delivery of better Outcomes
ROAMEF
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The 2018 Green Book Paragraph 4.15……..
“wellbeing is influenced by a number of
interrelated factors including health,
relationships, security and purpose.
At the long-list appraisal stage, evidence on the
determinants of wellbeing can help describe
Business As Usual and the purpose or scope of
an intervention through SMART objectives”
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WHAT & WHERE are the
BOUNDARIES ?
SERVICE SOLUTION ?
WHO AGENT ?
WHEN & HOW ?
£?
Identify options for Scope
Solution options that meet
Scope
AGENCY best options for
for Delivery of
Solution(s)
Implementation
options
Funding
Wellbeing and our Options Framework
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Where appropriate evaluations of
previous or similar interventions,
international and wellbeing evidence,
should be used to design options that
build on what works, to avoid
repeating past mistakes.
Using wellbeing information when
designing implementation options
Green Book paragraph 4.16
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The Behavioural Research Centre for Adult Skills and
Knowledge ….(could)..behavioural science could help
improve educational outcomes for 16 to 19 year olds.
…..research suggested that there is a link between strong
social support and student attainment. Almost 1,500
students at 9 further education colleges were enrolled into
a ‘study supporter’ trial.
Students were randomly assigned into 2 different groups.
An intervention group is asked to nominate one or two
‘study supporters’ (such as a parent, friend, or employer) to
receive weekly text messages about their studies. A second
group nominates study supporters, but did not receive text
messages.
Wellbeing research suggests “how” and is teamed with
Behavioural insights to test an intervention.
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Costing less than £10 per student, the trial found that
students whose supporters received weekly text messages
were 27% more likely to pass their GCSE (examinations)
than students who had volunteered to be part of the
programme but had not been selected to receive
supportive messages. …….
……..another iteration the following academic year, with a
different cohort of 900 students. This time both the
students themselves and their study supporters receive
text messages. Results showed a 32% increase in the
exam pass rate.
Wellbeing research suggests “how” and is teamed with
Behavioural insights to test an intervention.
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