Good morning Guo, thank you very much for your project initiative, my congratulations
am I getting you correctly that such an index should address open government data in particular? if yes, I would like to suggest not to call it something as general as "Open Knowledge Index" since "Knowledge" to my mind is much more than just government data... so while I think that such a project has an interesting rationale, for its index name, "Open Government Data Index" would seem more suitable please pass this mail on to [email protected] [email protected] thanks, looking forward to seeing many more answers on Guo's suggestions cheers, Claudia On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 03:21:56 +0200, Guo Xu wrote > Dear list(s), > > The OKCon has passed and generated many ideas for exciting future projects. > > One of the promising ideas I discussed with several participants was > to compile an index to track progress in opening data - both over time > and across countries. This would serve several purposes: > > 1) Enable the public to make cross-country comparisons (i.e. which > country performs well?) and track longitudinal developments (i.e. > which country has improved on opening data?) > 2) Serve as a useful tool for conducting open knowledge research (e.g. > correlating the index with socio-economic variables - does open > knowledge really foster innovation and growth?) > 3) Ideally, increase impact of OKF in public - making the "Open > Knowledge Index" a citable measure of open government > > There are many indices out there - for tracking democracy, corruption, > innovation and human development - so why not a measure to track > progress in opening government? Such an index (leaving aside > methodological problems for now) could greatly increase visibility of > OKF's work: A success case here is Transparency International - before > Ti published its corruption index, journalists had a hard time reading > and understanding all the reports - with the creation of the > Corruption Perception Index, Ti has become one of the most known NGOs > in fighting corruption. > > So why not have an Open Knowledge Index, released annually in a report > and during the OKCon? This would greatly increase media attention! > > I have some professional experience in creating indices (my research > institute has been compiling the German innovation index for a while > and we are currently drafting the funding proposal for an index of IT > infrastructure resilience). The Open Economics WG itself has developed > some experience with creating composite indices with the Yourtopia app > we submitted previously at the Apps4Development competition. I would > therefore volunteer to coordinate such an index within the Open > Economics group, mainly as an open academic project. The first step > would be to construct a prototype; in the longer run, we might also > consider applying for research grants in order to create the index > annually. > > Just wanted to start a discussion and see who would be interested - we > are planning to discuss this in greater detail during our regular > Skype meetups. > > Guo > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
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