The use of technology to engage citizens with well-being statistics is a relatively new area, and the purpose of this workshop is to explore experiences and best practices from national statistics offices and governments. This is the second of two…
Presentations Available: Using Technology to Engage Citizens with Well-being Statistics – Workshop
Presentations are now available (see below) in relation to the workshop “Using Technology to Engage Citizens with Well-being Statistics – Perspectives from Civil Society”. The workshop explored in further detail, the role of digital technologies in engaging citizens with ‘beyond…
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…
Using Technology to Engage Citizens with Well-being Statistics – Workshop
Following on from the recent online discussions on Wikiprogress: i) Making data more accessible for society at large and ii) Engaging citizens in well-being and progress statistics, we would like to inform you about a workshop that will build upon…
CAPS2014 OFF and CAPS2014 Conference held in Brussels
On 1-2 July 2014 the CAPS2014 OFF and the CAPS2014 Conference were held in Brussels. The CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation) projects are those selected in the call for proposals under objective 5.5 of work programme…
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…
Web-COSI Webinar hosted by Lunaria
Video Introduction to the Web-COSI webinar: civil society engagment in well-being statistics: good practices from Italy. Hosted by Duccio Zola, Web-COSI Researcher, Lunaria. To view videos on YouTube: Click here! Presentations Civil society engagement in well-being statistics: good practices…
Making data more accessible for society at large: the role of open data, communication and technology
Making data more accessible for society at large: the role of open data, communication and technology From 11 June 09:00 (GMT) until 24 June 2014! CIVICUS, Data-Pop Alliance, Partnership for Open Data, PARIS21, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Ushahidi, Web-COSI…
Webinar: Civil society engagement in well-being statistics: good practices from Italy
On Friday, June 20th, a webinar aimed at promoting and disseminating the most incisive contents and methods implemented by civil society actors for societal innovation in the field of collecting statistics on well-being The webinar (online seminar) “Civil society…
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…