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Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and economic progress. It is open to all members and communities for contribution - students and researchers, civil society organisations, governmental and intergovernmental organisations, multilateral institutions, businesses, statistical offices, community organisations and individuals – anyone who has an interest in the concept of “progress”.

Mission: the core mission of wikiprogress is to create a global information tool supported by a worldwide partnership of organisations and individuals wishing to develop new, smarter measures of progress.

Background

Wikiprogress was presented in beta on the 26th of October, 2009 at the OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy in Busan, Korea. Wikiprogress is the main platform for the OECD-hosted Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies”.

The Global Project chose to use a wiki platform as it enables a collective intelligence to develop, with experts, governments and citizens contributing their knowledge to a single repository on measuring progress. Information is created and shared by the community, allowing for a discussion on the measurement of environmental, social and economic well-being.
It is not just about developing progress indicators, but developing a collaborative community that works together to determine what and how we measure the well-being of societies. Such knowledge can not be determined by a single organisation or NSO, but by working with initiatives, governments, organisations and individuals all over the world.

What you can find on Wikiprogress

• Progress information: browse information by topic, search for information using the search function (top right), ...

• Progress by country: view the world map or search for a particular country by name. Country pages include information on national indicator projects, links to official statistics offices and various progress dimensions at a national level.

• Progress data: Wikiprogress.Stat is a database of progress indicators.

• Progress initiatives: Wikiprogres provides an overview of many local, national and international progress initiatives, see the world map of initiatives to find out what is happening near you.

• Progress publications: Wikiprogress is developing a database of publications on measuring progress and the various dimensions of progress. A progress bibliography also lists publications relevant to measuring progress.

• Media coverage on measuring progress: the Wikiprogress Community Portal is updated daily with news articles and blog posts on measuring progress

• Progress events: events from around the world are listed by date on the Wikiprogress calendar

Wikiprogress is not...

• a place for lobbying, marketing, selling or imposing ideas
• only limited to already published materials or to information from academics, governments and other official agencies.

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The Wikiprogress community

The wikiprogress community consists of all organisations, initiatives and individuals interested in developing measures of progress, and in measuring progress, using many indicators, such as the traditional measure of GDP, but also including alternative measures such as health, freedom, happiness, education, access to clean water, and so on.. Specifically, the community is for:

• Academics, researchers and statisticians: to find information and/or data, share knowledge and receive feedback/discussion
• The general public, intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, national statistics offices and independent progress initiatives: to promote their work, find information from similar organisations, collaborate on projects and network
• Established networks: to centralise information on a web platform, have work edited/discussed

The wikiprogress community seeks to foster the discussion on indicators of progress and promote the use of these indicators at regional, national and international levels.

Correspondents, Associates and Friends of the Wiki

Correspondents
Wikiprogress Correspondents act as the focal point of the Global Project's growing "network of networks" for their area. Correspondents ensure that the rest of the large and growing global movement can learn from common initiatives. Correspondents undertake to assist others in the same area to learn, share and achieve common goals. See a list of Wikiprogress Correspondents.

Associates
Associates are public and private, national and international organisations that are contributing to specific activities of the Global Project as well as helping to implement the actions envisaged by the Istanbul Declaration. Each Associate collaborates, over a time bound period, on specific activities

Friends of the Wiki
Friends of the Wiki are an informal advisory board of experts from different areas in the progress community. Friends provide the wiki with guidance for the overall objectives of wikiprogress and foster the development of articles, databases, funds and interactive communication tools. For further information, please contact the wikiprogress team.

If you would like to nominate your organisation to become a correspondent or associate; or if you would like to become a friend of the Wiki, please contact us directly.

How to get involved

Wikiprogress encourages everyone to be involved. See the many way below to be involved, along with links to support pages:

Edit an article No edit is too large or too small, as long as it is in accordance with the guidelines for content. Fixing a spelling error or developing content by adding text, references, images, links and data to an article are crucial to the development of Wikiprogress
. See more on how to edit an article

Create an article
Create an article on a topic that has not yet been covered on Wikiprogress. Be sure to search for it first and if the article already exists, please edit the exiting article with your information. See more on how to create an article

Add a progress initiative Add your/your organisations progress initiative by creating a new article with the name of the initiative. Be sure to include an overview, background and key projects/findings; link to other relevant wikiprogress articles and be sure to add a link to the initiative's website.
Add an event To add an event, go to the Wikiprogress calendar on the homepage, click on "add event" and follow the instructions. Once you have saved the event it will automatically appear in the calendar.
Write a blog If you have something interesting that you would like to write about for the ProgBlog, please send us a brief overview and we'll get back to you. info@wikiprogress.org

What do I gain by participating?

• Promotion of work and events to the progress community by adding an article, progress publication or initiative
  
• Feedback via editing and discussion
  
• Keep up to date with progress news on the community portal, view progress events, see new progress initiatives and publications
  
• Interact by discussing articles
• Network with other members of the community
• Real-time interaction with progress experts through online debates and forums

Wikiprogress.stat and eXplorer:

• Draw cross sections of data with a range of prestigious data sources (World Bank, UN, UNESCO etc) and visualise their query in an embeddable vislet. Vislets can then be seen on the users website, blog or in a wikiprogress article.

Quality of content on Wikiprogress

The wikiprogress team along with the community control the quality of the content of articles (see guidelines). For questions regarding the content, Global Project members are able to assist. If the question is not resolved, we will consult the Friends of the Wiki. Eventually, with a larger community, a specific editorial role will be allocated to active users with relevent backgrounds.

How does Wikiprogress determine its success?

• The interactivity of the community, the articles produced and the stories created from the data with wikiprogress.stat
• The number of new articles, number of edits, number of hits, time spent on the site, discussed articles (via Google analytics)
• Media coverage and feedback from progress community
• Interaction with the community via social media (number of fans/followers/friends on facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr etc)
  
  

See also

About the Global Project
GP newsletter
What is Progress?
Database of Progress Indicators
What is wikiprogress.stat?
Upload data
Create an account
Community Portal
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

• Get started
• Guidelines for content on wikiprogress
  
• The Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"
• Progress
• Wikiprogress.stat
• Associates
• Correspondents
• Wiki

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Occupy Movement Article Draft

Overview

Occupy is a global protest movement that began in New York City on the 17th of September 2011. Currently, there are over 95 cities across 82 countries with around 600 communities in the United States protesting primarily against economic and social inequality. According to Occupy Meetup there are 21,789 occupiers in over 2556 cities worldwide. The movement claims to be inspired by the Arab Spring, in particular, the protests against the Mubarak regime in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The movement has been described as a ‘democratic awakening’ and uses the slogan ‘we are the 99%’.

Background In May 2011 Spandish Indignants movement called for a worldwide protest on the 15th of October 2011; a Canadian based group, Adbusters Media Foundation, proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street to protest income inequality and the corporate influence Wall Street has on democracy, which is largely attributed to the absence of legal repercussions in the recent financial crisis. An internet group called ‘Anonymous’ then encouraged people to take part in the occupy protests, calling for protesters to ‘flood lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and Occupy Wall Street.’

We are the 99% The political slogan ‘we are the 99%’ has been used by occupy protesters across the world; it refers to the concentration of wealth in the top 1% of income earners compared to the remaining 99%. According to the Congressional Budget Office Report between 1979 and2007 the incomes of the top 1% of Americans grew by approximately 275%. In 2007 the richest 1% of the American population owned 34.6% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 50.5%. Thus, the top 20% of Americans owned 85% of the country's wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 15% —an example of the Pareto principle.

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Global Progress Indices

Human Development Index

Better Life Index

SIGI

Global Peace Index

Legatum Prosperity Index

Failed States Index

Happy Planet Index

Environmental Performance Index

Worldwide Governance Index

Corruption Perceptions Index

Progress Reports

Development

Africa Development Indicators 2011 (World Bank)

Human Development Report (UNDP)

World Development Report (World Bank)

Doing Business (World Bank)

Governance

Failed States

Millennium Development Goals Report

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