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Private bodies

By Sue Kendall-Bilicki, OECD It’s official, you own your own body! Hardly news, you may think, but it took a US Supreme Court ruling this week to determine once and for all that a human gene cannot be patented. The ruling has been hailed particularly as great news for women, since the gene at the [...]

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In search of satisfaction

By Sue Kendall-Bilicki, OECD The Rolling Stones’ song “I can’t get no satisfaction” provides a personal litany of things failing to make the singer happy, from the colour of his shirt to the quality of information being provided by the media. But is satisfaction really what we are looking for in the 21st century? The [...]

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The Value of Data Visualisation

By guest author Organisations  increasingly seek to enhance their business ‘intelligence’, better inform the decisions they make, assess the impact of their strategies and monitor the success or failure of their pursuits. Likewise, we as consumers and citizens want  more information to influence our own choices and to generally try to make sense of the [...]

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May 22, 2013

Humanosphere: Why it’s so difficult to measure progress and well-being in Africa

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April 16, 2013

Le Monde: L’Allemagne se dote à son tour d’un indicateur de bien-être

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