[okfn-discuss] [open-economics] Open Knowledge Index

Wed Aug 24 15:16:32 UTC 2011

Hi Guo,

This is brilliant -- well done to you and everyone else and sorry I
only caught the very end of this. Strongly suggest you put up a blog
post on http://blog.okfn.org about the hack-day and the results and
look forward to taking this further ...

Rufus

On 23 August 2011 19:47, Guo Xu <digitalepourpre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list(s),
>
> Seven of us from the Open Economics team sat together (virtually)
> today to create a prototype index for the Open Knowledge Index we
> discussed previously. The preliminary results are here:
>
> http://openeconomics.net/open-knowledge-indicator/
>
> We are still working on the visualization where people will be able to
> choose their own weighting, so this is only a crude version. We would
> be very happy to receive some feedback and comments from you - both on
> how to improve the index (are there better data sources?) and whether
> the results make sense at all (Iceland ranked top 1). We would also
> like to invite you to interpret the results in a brief blog posts. It
> would be great if the results could be explained a bit more in detail
> so we do not only display the table + simple visualization on our
> page.
>
> Thanks a lot and looking forward to comments!
>
> Guo
>
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