Urban Quality of Life Indicators WG Case Statement | RDA

"1.    WG Charter The aim of the WG is to identify a minimum set of interoperable open access datasets in the economic, social, and environmental domain that can be used to build comparable indicators of Urban Quality of Life (QoL) in a global setting. 2.    Value Proposition City planners and policy and decision makers will benefit from being able to benchmark and check the health of their city based on both objective and subjective data. Also, access to such indicators could inform the investment priorities of local Councils on projects to improve the liveability of their cities. Through an open data infrastructure citizens and communities will also be able to access indicator information to see how their local area of interest measures against these indicators. Such information could also be used for community groups to decide what grassroots activities they might undertake to improve their communities and neighbourhoods.  3.    Engagement with existing work in the area This working group will see three large scale initiatives in leading this group. These being AURIN JRC INSPIRE and UBDC . There is also opportunity for other such large scale research initiatives to be actively involved in this working group. In the context of Australia, the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) is supporting the formulation and distribution of national benchmarked small area indicators products including ..."