Innovating Wellbeing Measurement – Uncovering New Connections

The ACT Wellbeing Framework tracks the wellbeing of Canberrans using data across twelve domains, which reflect the key factors identified by the community as essential to their quality of life. Community data and analyses are published on the wellbeing data dashboard.

In this challenge, we invite people to explore innovative ways to link diverse data sources with our societal well being domains. This may include data from Commonwealth government, NGOs, social media analytics, crowd-sourced data, private sector data streams, or other ACT Government sources not currently presented in the wellbeing dashboard webpages.

Finding new ways to look at data with the Wellbeing Framework could help broaden understanding of the factors that contribute to community wellbeing and improve policy insights and outcomes.

Challengers may look to explore:

1. Multiple domains with a ‘wide’ view.
   • Explore interactions across domains to identify multi-linked indicators that capture broader impacts on wellbeing. Analyse correlations across datasets to visualise connections and influence among domains.
   • Proposals for linked indicators that provide a holistic view of wellbeing.
   • Demonstrate how alternative data sources can complement traditional measures and reveal confirming/other trends.
2. A specific domain or domains, with a more focused approach.

Projects could take the form of:

1. Model wellbeing dashboards, drawing influence from the ACT wellbeing dashboard but using alternate data sources.
2. Ideas relating to how wellbeing is/could be measured and why an external data source is required. This could include proposals that outline new or modified indicators for measuring wellbeing and explain why a data source/indicator is required.

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