🎉That is the end of #METRO2021🎉 A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our discussions and to all of our speakers for their contributions. To learn more about the METRO project, please visit our website for details on case studies and outputs. metro-project.eu/

For the final talk of #METRO2021, organiser @JustynaBandola presents her work on #quantification and calculative spaces in global #governance. Justyna examines these phenomena and different forms of "quantitative cultures" in the context of the World Bank, UNDP and UNICEF.

For our next talk, @asociologist joins us to discuss "the role of economic experts in constructing climate change as a social problem". His talk will discuss the impact economic models estimating climate change costs have on environmental policymaking and #climate action.

For our final session of #METRO2021, Morgan Currie and Melisa Miranda Correa will present on the Edinburgh Culture and Communities Project (@edin_cc). Their talk discusses how digital maps can offer a geospatial understanding of cultural assets and guide cultural #policy.

To close out session 3, Leopold Ringel presents his work on interviews with producers of #rankings in a variety of sectors. His examination explores shared practices across different organisations that "contribute to the institutionalisation and success of rankings".

Our next talk is delivered by @neilpollock, @lucianadadderio and Martin Kornberger. Their presentation will discuss how organisations engage with #rankings and how processes of rankings influence organisational strategies and rivalries.

Opening our next session, Afshin Mehrpouya and Rita Samiolo present their work on competition in #rankings. Their talk examines the "use of rankings to entice companies to compete for their social performance, making social issues allegedly governable by means of competition".

To open Day 2, we welcome keynote speaker Mary Morgan to discuss the #quantification of social science umbrella concepts such as '#poverty' and '#development'. Her talk questions how we conceptualise measurement of these terms and the significance of this for global action.

For today's sessions, we will first discuss processes and actors associated with the production of #rankings. This is followed by papers and discussions about "cultures of #quantification" (@JustynaBandola) in policymaking for cultural, environmental and poverty action.

Day 2 of #METRO2021 starts in 2 hours! We are excited for another day of engaging presentations and discussions about how numbers shape the world. #quantifiation #metrics #governance #SDGs #data #education #development #poverty #climatechange

That's a close for Day 1 of #METRO2021. 👏A big thank you to all of today's speakers for your contributions and to all of our participants for your stimulating questions👏 We look forward to many more interesting discussions tomorrow for our final day. We start at 2pm GMT.

For today's final talk, METRO PI @SotiriaGrek discusses the actor dynamics and processes that steer the production of expert knowledge in transnational #governance. Her paper will discuss, among others, brokerage and consensus-making in knowledge-making for global #publicpolicy.

We now welcome @AnnabelleLittoz for Session 2 on Tools of Quantification. Annabell will discuss the role of private actors in the production of global #metrics in #health #governance, looking specifically at the context of non-communicable diseases. #data #quantification

For the final Session 1 talk, @marleetichenor discusses how statistical capacity has taken on an important role in the #SDGs while being a concept that is defined in different ways by SDG actors who each have their own #development agendas and authority in global #governance.

We now go to Fabrizio De Francesco and @PattynValerie's talk. They discuss the frameworks for monitoring and #evaluation that the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium have designed and applied to assess progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. #SDGs #Governance

Next, John Berten and @MattKranke join us to discuss 'prognostic expertise'. How do we "develop and stabilise #expertise on future issues" when the authority of this expertise is established based on future knowledge, which is both fragile and uncertain? #governance

To read more about the work produced by the METRO team on #quantification, #metrics, global #governance, and the #SDGs, please visit our website to view a full list of resources, including our blog posts, working papers and publications. #METRO2021 metro-project.eu/resources/