Integration and Whole Futures

Global Challenges excerpt from the 2010 State of the Future report

This section includes indicators that can measure change of the following challenge:

Global Ethics

How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions? [Challenge 15]


Global Ethics

How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions? [Challenge 15]

 -- Indicators --

The suggested indicators for this challenge were:

  1. Measurement of levels of corruption in government and society
  2. Extent of coverage in local papers, radio and TV news on ethical issues
  3. Longitudinal surveys measuring values and opinions about whether ethical circumstances are changing and their change direction
  4. Development of a measure of nepotism and  “cronyism” (a mild form of corruption)
  5. Measurement of the level of non-state actors in global institutions, notably for religious bodies (e.g. Churches) and charities (e.g. Oxfam) in UN, EU and other global and regional organizations
  6. Count of words ethics/ethical in government output
  7. Social capital indicators like: the quantity of citizens' organizations and initiatives; quality of citizens' activities ethical terms; ethical atmosphere in terms of trust and global ethics
  8. Extent of training in conflict resolution and ethics being provided in schools, government, business etc.
  9. Number and type of terrorists incidents and ethnic conflicts
  10. Count of the numbers of companies with published moral codes and assessment of how their programs expressed those values
  11. Voter participation in and frequency and quality of free elections
  12. Assessment of the degree to which groups and countries maintain or develop their own cultural identity as a counterbalance of globalization
  13. Assessment of the extent and power of lobbying groups

The indicators most highly rated as per their usefulness and availability were:
[The numbers in brackets represent the order number of the indicator in the original (above) list.]

  1. Voter participation in and frequency and quality of free elections (11)
  2. Extent of coverage in local papers, radio and TV news on ethical issues (2)
  3. Number and type of terrorists incidents and ethnic conflicts (9)
  4. Measurement of the level of non-state actors in global institutions, notably for religious bodies (e.g. Churches) and charities (e.g. Oxfam) in UN, EU and other global and   regional organizations (5)
  5. Social capital indicators like: the quantity of citizens' organizations and initiatives; quality of citizens' activities in `ethical terms; ethical atmosphere in terms of trust and global ethics (7)
  6. Extent of training in conflict resolution and ethics being provided in schools, universities, government, and business. (8)
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