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About Wikichild

Wikichild is an online source for child well-being research and data. It draws inspiration from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and serves as an information hub for the community engaged in the development of concepts, data collection tools, analysis and research on child well-being in developed as well as developing countries.

Wikichild belongs to a group of wiki-sites, including Wikigender.org, under Wiki-progress. Wiki-progress is an online platform for the global project on “Measuring the Progress of Societies”, hosted by the OECD with the collaboration of regional and international partners. The purpose of the wikiprogress initiative is to measure economic, social and environmental development at the international, national and local levels.

What’s a wiki-site and who will use it?

Wiki-sites are built using web-based software tools that allow browsers to contribute to a knowledge database. Wikichild enables browsers to upload articles, tables and datasets, and explore other data contributions to the site using interactive statistics software. Academics, researchers, policymakers in governments and international organisations, advocacy groups, NGOs, and those with a general interest in child well-being are the intended users of the site.

How wikichild will work?

Registered wikichild users are able to upload articles and data, as well as post comments or suggest amendments to uploaded articles via varied online features. Unregistered users will be able to read the content and access data.

Wikichild also complements existing sites on child well-being, child poverty and child development by facilitating linkages to such sites and by providing opportunities for wikichild users to become familiar with the range of existing initiatives.

The wikichild consortium

A consortium of institutions managed and contributed to Wikichild in the start-up stages. The consortium includes the OECD Social Policy Division, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, the International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa, New Zealand.

For further information please contact:

Dominic Richardson

OECD Social Policy Division

2, rue André Pascal

75775 Paris Cedex 16

Tel: +33 1 45 24 94 56

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