About ISCI
Our Goals
ISCI brings together experts in the field worldwide to:
- Contribute to the well-being of all children.
- Share knowledge and experience.
- Develop standards.
- Improve data resources.
- Foster collaborative research and projects.
- Foster diversity in methodological approaches.
- Enhance dissemination of information on the status of children.
- Help organizations apply the findings to policy and practice.
- Enhance the capacity of the field in countries that are in the initial stages of producing indicators of child well-being.
History
In 1996, approximately 35 experts from 17 countries met in Jerusalem, Israel for the first international workshop on “Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well-Being: Beyond Survival”. The foundation for ISCI was laid at this workshop, where the core group of ISCI founders met.
The Jerusalem workshop later developed into a multi-national project on “Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well-Being”, with some 200 participants from more than 30 countries participating in the project workshops and meetings.
In 2005, the Conference Childhoods: Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies was held in Oslo, Norway and this led to the establishment of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI). In late 2005, with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, we convened the founding standing committee meeting of ISCI and ISCI was formally established in 2006.
In 2007, our first inaugural conference was held in Chicago. Since then, ISCI has hosted international conferences every two years in a different country around the world. The first issue of Child Indicators Research (external link) , the official journal of ISCI, was published in March 2008.
To learn more about ISCI’s history, you may read our past newsletters (external link, opens in new window) .