Hi Daniel, Thanks for pointing out to the link. We haven't thought through the entire process, but the epsiplatform scorecard is a useful departing point - I thought of at least including the legal framework in one of the subindices.
Once we have defined all the categories (I will write up a proposal and put this out for circulation and discussion) we can essentially crowd-source this, maybe first for the European countries. If we get good feedback, we can apply for funding to carry this out for the remaining 150+ countries, as well as extending the dataset back in time so we can look at the development over time. I believe crowd-sourcing would be useful. We could for example put out a Google Doc Spreadsheet where we ask people to fill in values (along the source) etc. Thanks again for feedback, glad to see that there is a lot of feedback on this idea :) Guo On 4 July 2011 13:21, Daniel Dietrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Guo > > This is an interesting proposal. epsiplatform has done something similar for > EU countries in 2009: http://www.epsiplatform.eu/examples/scorecard and is > about to carry the research out again soon. > > So apart from defining the criteria for the index the real challenge would be > to carry it out in as many countries as possible. Any idesas on this? > > > Daniel > > > > On 03.07.2011, at 03:21, 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > open-economics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-economics > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
