Yourtopia 2 - Dirk Heine
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Development beyond GDP Gregor Aisch, Hannes Bredschneider, Rosamaria Bitetti, Velichka Dimitrova, Dirk Heine, Guo Xu, Friedrich Lindenberg, Giacomo Luchetta, Rufus Pollock, Marian Steinbach, Stefan Wehrmeyer OpenEconomics.Net
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Dirk Heine speaks about the Yourtopia 2 project at the "Open Data for Measurement of Social Progress" Session at the OKFestival 2012 Helsinki
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Development beyond GDP
Gregor Aisch, Hannes Bredschneider, Rosamaria Bitetti, Velichka Dimitrova, Dirk Heine, Guo Xu, Friedrich Lindenberg, Giacomo Luchetta, Rufus Pollock, Marian Steinbach, Stefan Wehrmeyer
OpenEconomics.Net
Need indicesNeed indices to mainstreamdevelopment concern:
EU & OECD (JCR), UNDP (MPI)
Mashups = arbitrary assumptions!Mashups = arbitrary assumptions!(Ravallion 2010, Stiglitz et al 2009)
● Categories of progress● Proxies for those categories
● Weighting ● Shadow-pricing
● Discounting
User determinesUser determines weightscategories, indicators, shadow prices; etc.
Society-driven, non-arbitary, Participatory → interest-generating
Vision
1. Mainstream awareness of complexity of development → why specific targets, not just GDP.
2. Make progress measurement indices accessible - Game approach- Build your own index- Don't know good index? – And 5k friends jointly?
Engaging citizens in a
dialogue on the drivers and
seriousness of intra-regional
divides
Engaging citizens in a
dialogue on the drivers and
seriousness of intra-regional
divides
Medium-term objective: Participative index to complement high-frequency indicators
↪ wiki.okfn.org/ProgressVote
We hope you will join us!
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