Call for Sessions: 2022 CIC Symposium

About the Symposium

The Community Indicators Consortium (CIC) is currently soliciting proposals for the 2022 CIC Symposium – Methods, Metrics, and Measurements for Community Resiliency and Equity for All, which will be held virtually May 4 – 5, 2022. Click here to save the date.

We are combining dates and platform with an APDU virtual symposium “A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All“. Both CIC and APDU members share a vital concern with the responsible and rigorous collection, creation, distribution, preservation, and analysis of data.

For its part, CIC is seeking proposals that describe HOW you, as a data scientist, community indicator practitioner, analyst or community builder, do your work: tools you use to engage, survey, measure, or report; methods to analyze or evaluate; innovative indicators or indices; approaches to factor in equity or resilience.

We will look for proposals in the following areas:

• Measures & Metrics
• Dashboards & Scorecards
• Surveys & Polls
• Community Engagement
• Resilience and Equity Building Tools
• Organizational Capacity Building
• Partnering and Funding Mechanisms
• Analysis & Evaluation
• Reporting Tools.

We invite members and non-members to submit session proposals by March 1, 2022.

Click here to submit a proposal

Structure & Format

Sessions will be a combination of pre-recorded and live-streaming content. We are seeking to create unique learning opportunities for our attendees and encourage you to submit new and innovative ways to use this time to share new knowledge and approaches, facilitate panel discussions, and/or engage attendees in active conversation. A virtual environment allows us to offer a variety of session formats, including traditional sessions (individual presentations; traditional panels of three 15–20-minute presentations; facilitated roundtable discussions), but we also welcome proposals that utilize the unique advantages of virtual meetings (such as on-site visits to activities or developments of interest in your community that you bring to us virtually).

We are interested in a variety of viewpoints and encourage researchers, evaluators, practitioners, and advocates from all diverse backgrounds to share their experiences, especially those who have been traditionally and historically underrepresented in the study and practice of community indicators. If you are recruiting participants for a panel or developing a topic to share, please keep our mutual commitment in mind. We also want to hear from our younger researchers, including emerging professionals and students. This could be your chance to make a mark on the community indicators research profession for years to come! We’re always looking for new leaders and a fresh set of contributors.

If any of the themes presented below resonate with the research you and your colleagues are doing, please submit a proposal!

Session Ideas:

Proposals may address one or more of the following ideas as they relate to the theme of Methods, Metrics, and Measurements. Topics covered for potential tracks may include:

• Measures & Metrics
• Dashboards & Scorecards
• Surveys & Polls
• Community Engagement
• Resilience and Equity Building Tools
• Organizational Capacity Building
• Partnering and Funding Mechanisms
• Analysis & Evaluation
• Reporting Tools.

Please submit proposals via our survey tool. This helps keep the committee organized and ensures no one is inadvertently overlooked. Only proposals submitted via the survey tool will be considered. If you’re having trouble with the survey tool or cannot enter the data, please contact Anika Rahman (arahman@crec.net)

Instructions

• Sessions must be centered on community indicator research or the use of data to make community/quality-of-life policy decisions. Projects and efforts to ensure equity in participation and/or outcomes are particularly welcome.
• Vendors are eligible to propose “Vendor-Sponsored Sessions.” They will not be considered for other sessions. To be accepted, Vendor-Sponsored Sessions should be topical and informative. Sales or marketing sessions will not be considered. We would happily work with vendors seeking to make a proposal to ensure their idea meets our programming goals.
• Proposals should reference how the proposal relates to the theme: Methods, Metrics, and Measurements
• Full panel sessions (usually with three presenters) are approximately 60 minutes. Individual presentations are 15-20 minutes long.
• Session proposals are due by 5:00 pm EST on March 1, 2022. 
• Click here to submit a proposal

Guidelines

• Proposal descriptions are limited to 200 words.
• Proposals may not be submitted on behalf of another organization.
• There will be no compensation for speaking at the event.
• Proposals are being solicited from CIC members and non-members alike. CIC members receive a discounted conference registration rate.
• If you are proposing a panel, you will be responsible for confirming that panel’s speakers, managing topics of focus, and organizing bios to submit to CIC prior to the event.
• CIC reserves the right to edit or make changes to proposed session titles, descriptions, modes of presentation, panels, and moderators. This includes combining proposal ideas that complement each other into one session.
• We encourage speakers to attend the full conference and offer a discounted registration fee for accepted speakers. If speakers are unable to attend the full conference, they are welcome to present during their session at no charge.
• CIC will provide a response to all submitted proposals no later than Friday, March 18, 2022.
• Please contact Jennie Allison (jallison@crec.net) with content questions.

About CIC

Community indicators help communities around the world answer the question: Are we there yet? Communities are trying to improve the quality of life of their residents. Indicators measure what the community cares about and track whether the community is moving in the right direction. Without indicators, it is difficult to know whether progress is being made on important issues. Those metrics provide essential guidance for action and key tools for appropriate engagement of the public.

The Community Indicator Consortium supports communities’ efforts to use community data to improve quality of life. Since 2005, CIC has provided resources and tools to help communities and practitioners advance the practice and effective use of community indicators.

Click here to submit a proposal