The Australian National Development Index (ANDI) is a collaboration of 40 leading community organisations, church groups, businesses and universities who aim to introduce a holistic measure of progress – an index that reflects the views of Australians in an ongoing, participatory process.  Informed by experts, but defined by Australians, ANDI will tell us in a snapshot, how we are doing as peoples, as communities and as a nation.  Read more about ANDI »

ANDI Pilot: Australia’s Progress in the 21st Century

Two key ANDI partners - the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) and VicHealth - have provided $100,000 for a pilot project for the research and community engagement program that will underpin ANDI over the next 2 to 3 years. The project – Australia’s Progress in the 21st Century or AP21C for short - started earlier this year and should be completed in May 2013.

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ANDI in the News: Prof Mike Salvaris talks to The Zone (The Age)

Adjunct Professor, Mike Salvaris talks to The Zone, in The Age, about the growing global movement seeking a better way to measure progress, and how community engagement is integral to defining the kind of society we want to live in. 

Finding a better measures of progress is not simply a technical or statistical problem, but a democratic one, which inherently require the participation of citizens to share their views on what progress means to them. Read and watch the full story »