Yourtopia
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The project is looking for new colleagues for design, coding (python or javascript), and writing. Furthermore, suggestions and critique are highly welcome. | The project is looking for new colleagues for design, coding (python or javascript), and writing. Furthermore, suggestions and critique are highly welcome. | ||
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Context
The last months saw a surge of the debate on the weighting-problems of composite development-indices and the potential for researcher bias through the choice of proxies [1][2][3][4]. This is related to the wider debate how public interest in social progress indicators may be raised.
The open-source project called Yourtopia is trying a new pathway for circumventing these three issues (weighting, proxy-choices, public engagement). It is a collaborative project looking for contributors.
Project Summary
The project is based on the following simple ideas:
- Researcher bias regarding the weighting and choice of indicators disappears if these factors of composite indices are determined by the person viewing the index.
- Public interest in alternative measures of social progress increases if the public is allowed to participate in the construction of indices through voting.
- Trust in official indicators of “development beyond GDP” increases if the public has easy ways to see how sensitive for example country-rankings are to changes in the assumptions.
- Presenting “social-progress”-issues in the form of a game might mainstream interest in the debate.
Yourtopia addresses these ideas as follows:
- Users play a quiz in which they describe firstly which dimensions of development are most important to them (by weighing the classical HDI categories here and by choosing between categories of development identified in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report here) and secondly their mix of proxies.
- Users see different evaluations of human development based on their personal composite index.
- Users do not just "consume" an index, but participate in its construction and analysis.
Participation
The project is looking for new colleagues for design, coding (python or javascript), and writing. Furthermore, suggestions and critique are highly welcome.
See also
- The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies
- The Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
- Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
External Links
- Public website
- List of issues in Yourtopia
- Email list for joining project (hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation)
Notes
- ↑ J. E Stiglitz et al., “Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress,” Paris (FR): Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (2009).
- ↑ Franco-German Ministerial Council, Monitoring economic performance, quality of life and sustainability (Berlin and Paris: German Council of Economic Experts and Conseil d'Analyse Économique, 2010).
- ↑ M. Ravallion, “Mashup indices of development,” Policy Research Working Paper 5432 (2010).
- ↑ Also various posts in this community, including Johannes Jütting und Christ Garroway de Coninck, “Mashed-up Indexes: nonsense or enlightenment?,” Prog Blog, November 16, 2010, http://theblogprogress.blogspot.com/2010/11/mashed-up-indexes-nonsense-or.html
