Wikirate presentation @ Sustainability Drinks Berlin

A Short Introduction

Sustainability Drinks Berlin, 30.10.2014

Making Companies Clearer

Product video

1 @wikirate Facebook.com/wikirate

What’s the problem?

Companies have a big impact on everyday lives

Affect politics, societies, environments and day to day living

But they are complicated, hard to understand;everything wants something different

What everyone does want though is access to information andclear transparent information about what companies do


The Wikirate Community

Wikirate is working to build a community of citizens united around better, clearer information about what companies are doing( “Making Companies Clearer”)

We call this transparency, building the windows to see what companies are doing and giving both you and companies themselves the tools to share information


Why Wiki?

As a user-powered platform, anyone can come and read about the company related issues they care most about

The first task of the Wikirate community is to build this knowledge base through describing the activities of companies relative to various topics in articles


Key concepts

Wikirate involves citizens like yourself contributing to articles which describe the activities of companies relative to various topics

You can browse the site by company, or by topic to view the existing articles and the articles that still need to be written


Why Rate?

The second part of Wikirate is about quantitative data. This information is vital to drill down and compare how different companies are performing in various ways.

This can be everything from simple numbers like ‘numbers of employees’ up to more complicated concepts like ‘climate change ratings’


Ensuring data quality

Everything on Wikirate must cite a source

Each source must be broken down into a simple claim, which can be easily verified and its importance is clear

People can discuss, defend and (very soon) vote on claims

Wikirate is not funded by companies (donations only)

Wikirate wants companies to contribute, but through disclosure not vandalism


How can you get involved?

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Journalists/InvestorsWatch this space;let us know what's

missing?

(Open) Data organisationsContact us,

let us help you sharethe open data you have

CompaniesGet in touch, out your info

out there; let us know how we can improve the

interface

Advocacy organisationsShare your research;

if it is public,upload as a source

on Wikirate.org

CitizensRead, vote, comment, browse, share and add content if you have it. Sign up get involved;

take part in hangouts, influence policy and growth of the site

StudentsWikirate x; start initiative

at your university

There are various

ways to get involved.

All which start with a

simple sign up at

Wikirate.org

@wikirate Facebook.com/wikirate

The Wikirate Project partners

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Project launch: October 2013Funding partners: European Commission (CAPS); until October 2016Consortium partners: 7 partners across Europe and the US


Sneak preview: Upcoming features

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• Improved user profile pages

Wikirate is not just an information platform, but is social:

See what content a user is following; has contributed; discuss something with a user and have a place for your profile and a brief bio



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• Up- and down voting of claims

Ensuring data quality, (poor quality/irrelevant) content is down-voted

Social, see how your content is doing, ‘recommend’ content for use in articles

Easy to get involved with and interact with existing content



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• Multi-lingual support

• Content and company ratings

Multiple language support is important as information doesn’t exist in just one language

For the pieces that do exist in one language (e.g. numbers/ quantitative data) these will be the same universally


The vision for the future is for the community to rate not just content, but also companies themselves

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Thank you for your attention! Questions?

Let’s keep in touch:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/wikirate

Twitter: @wikirate

E-mail: [email protected]@wikirate.org

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