The two-year Web-COSI project has officially come to a close, but the initiative does not stop there! Now is the time to get involved by updating your initiatives, data and statistics to the Web-COSI data portal. The Web-COSI data portal (hosted…
Multimedia Available: EU Policy Seminar on the Usage of Data for Driving Social Entrepreneurship
Multimedia (presentations and photos) are now available (see below) in relation to the EU Policy Seminar on the Usage of Data for Driving Social Entrepreneurship. The seminar was held in Brussels in line with the CAPS2015 Conference on Tuesday, 7th…
European Union Web-COSI Social Entrepreneurship Survey
Web-COSI is a European Union project designed to improve people’s engagement with data and statistics. The EU project is delivered by Istat, OECD, Lunaria and i-genius, which seeks to improve the way society engages with statistics beyond GDP – ‘statistics…
Get Involved with Web-COSI
Relationship between Social Entrepreneurship and Data and Statistics Web-COSI is an EU project delivered by Istat, OECD, Lunaria and i-genius, which seeks to improve the way society engages with statistics beyond GDP – ‘statistics for everyone’. In 2014, the official…
Advisory Board Meeting
On 18th November 2014 the first meeting of the WEB-COSI Advisory Board took place in Rome, at Istat premises. The meeting was chaired by Enrico Giovannini with the participation of Tony Bradley, Filomena Maggino, Martin O’Connor and Marina Signore as…
Bologna Seminar held on Web-COSI Project
On 27 November 2014 the Web-COSI project scientific coordinator, Ms Donatella Fazio, together with Ms Arianna Carciotto from Istat, Web-COSI team, held a seminar on “The R&D projects funded by the European Union.The recent experience of the Web-COSI project at…
ESS Big Data in Official Statistics, Rome, Technical Workshop Report Released
Eurostat have released the Technical Report on the ESS Big Data Workshop in Official Statistics. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions that took place during the 2014 ESS Big Data in Official Statistics event organized by Eurostat in Rome…
Statistics for society
Donatella Fazio, from Istat, co-ordinator of Web-COSI project explains how it is designed to increase the engagement of society at large for better statistics beyond GDP. The two-year EU FP7 Web-COSI (Web-Communities for Statistics for Social Innovation) project officially began…
Busy start to Web-COSI Project
The Web-COSI project has got off to a busy start with interest quickly growing throughout Europe and beyond. The project consortium has been working hard in the background building networks and collecting data. Web-COSI’s online discussion on ‘Engaging citizens in…