Wikiprogress.org:About
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Overview
Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate societal progress. It is a place to find information and statistics to facilitate the exchange of ideas, initiatives and knowledge on “measuring the progress of societies”. 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”.
Wikiprogress is the main platform for the OECD-hosted Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies”. For more information on the contributing organisations to the Global Project and Wikiprogress, see Correspondents.
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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. Wikiprogress aims to provide a health check for all societies that enables every citizen to better understand the economic, social and environmental factors that determine whether or not their lives are getting better.
Wikiprogress is...
- a global platform for sharing, measuring and evaluating social, economic and environmental progress.
- the sharing of worldwide initiatives on the measurement of progress, as well as their use for raising awareness amongst stakeholders, informing them of key economic, social and environmental trends and allowing them to discuss relevant issues based on solid evidence and statistics on an interesting and wide range of topics.
- the best place to find answers the following questions:
- who is developing initiatives on measuring progress (well-being, quality of life, freedom, etc.)?
- what type of taxonomy does this initiative use?
- which indicators are being used to measure the different dimensions of progress?
- how are countries (or regions/communities) achieving progress over time and in comparison to other similar territories?
- the focal point where both experts and practitioners share practices on indicators design, calculation and dissemination. Stakeholders interested in developing initiatives in this field can find reference documents and assistance on how to establish measuring progress initiatives.
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.
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
What is the goal of the Wikiprogress community?
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.
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.
What do I gain by participating?
Wikiprogress
- 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.
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)
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 communication tool for the The 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.
See also
- Get started
- Guidelines for content on wikiprogress
- The Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"
- Progress
- Wikiprogress.stat
- Associates
- Correspondents
- Wiki
