7th OECD World Forum on Well-being, new How’s Life? report, and Digital Well-being Hub

The 7th OECD World Forum on Well-being will take place in Rome on 4-6 November 2024 and is co-organised by the OECD’s Centre on Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) and the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), with the collaboration of the Italian National Statistical Institute (ISTAT), and the support of the Bank of Italy, under the Italian Presidency of the G7.

The Forum will look at how the well-being perspective can enhance our understanding of major societal challenges, such as climate change and artificial intelligence, and respond to them. Working with over 100 countries, the OECD is a global policy forum that promotes policies to preserve individual liberty and improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.

7th OECD World Forum

OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann will be joined at the Forum by:

• Giancarlo Giorgetti, Minister of Economy and Finance, Italy
• Francesco Maria Chelli, President, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
• Baroness Beeban Kidron, Crossbench peer, UK’s House of Lords, and Expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence
• Frank Vanderbrouke, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, Belgium
• Atsushi Mimura, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Japan
• Gelsomina Vigliotti, Vice President, European Investment Bank

During the Forum, on 5 November, OECD WISE will be launching its flagship report How’s Life? 2024 – Well-being and Resilience in Times of Crisis. This sixth edition of How’s Life? presents the latest evidence from over 80 indicators covering current well-being outcomes, inequalities, and resources for future well-being.

It contrasts medium-term trends in well-being outcomes with developments since 2019 to understand how well OECD governments are navigating the interconnected challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis and to outline emerging risks that require policy attention.

Also on 5 November, OECD WISE will launch the OECD Digital Well-being Hub, developed in collaboration with Cisco. The Hub offers a holistic view of the impacts of digital transformation across key dimensions of well-being through a dashboard of indicators. It will also collect real-time, detailed evidence on people’s digital behaviours and experiences through its crowd-sourcing tool, to help better understand inequalities and opportunities presented by digital life and provide a fuller picture of how the digital transformation is impacting our lives and our well-being.