[open-economics] open-economics Digest, Vol 44, Issue 8

Tue Feb 10 22:14:15 UTC 2015

Hi Samira,

I would like to express my happiness to finally have someone interested in
pushing this project forward. I almost lost hope! :)

Well, did you read the thread
<https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-economics/2015-February/000530.html>
in regard to this project? Could you please specify where would you like to
contribute in that same thread? Just to get things more organized.

Really glad to have you on board.

2015-02-10 21:43 GMT+00:00 Samira Niknami <samiraster at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get involved in this project.
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>>    1. [Project-discussion] Wiki Rating (Gustavo Silva)
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>> Hi all,
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>> I have been in touch with Marc, from Wiki Rating
>> <http://www.wikirating.org/> project. Since we are looking for some
>> projects to get the work group started again, I have proposed a few topics
>> and Marc found an interesting opportunity to let us know about Wiki
>> Rating.
>>
>> *?"Wikirating is a worldwide independent, transparent and collaborative
>> > organization for credit ratings. It offers an open, editable centralized
>> > place for all credit rating related topics, and credit ratings for
>> > countries, corporations and other financial products. Wikirating unites
>> > rating experts, economists and normal people, similar to Wikipedia, but
>> > with a stronger and stricter peer review concept."*
>>
>>
>> It is a very interesting topic of research and it is something I believe
>> we
>> can make an impact on Economics, by changing the rating standards
>> worldwide. This project can close the gap between academics, researchers,
>> passionates and investors.
>> Marc has discussed with Dorian Crede, the founder of Wiki Rating, about
>> the
>> possibility of getting OE involved. Dorian has kindly replied with some
>> suggestions for us to get involved. These are not the only ways of getting
>> involved, but they are for an initial phase, since we are still trying to
>> get the group active again.
>>
>> Their proposal:
>> ?"?
>> We also agree that there should be a relatively narrow focus at first and
>> would like to suggest sovereign ratings as a starting point.  Would you
>> like to take over the sovereign rating methodology (SWI)?  We believe it
>> needs two types of improvements:  (1) more frequent updates through the
>> use
>> of crowdsourcing and automated data loading and (2) model recalibration
>> (changing factor weighting and possibly the factors themselves to derive
>> index implied ratings that are more intuitive and credible.
>> ?"
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>> I will supervise this project, even though I can't contribute alone to it.
>> I'm particularly interested in proposal #2, but I will get means to fulfil
>> #1. Nevertheless, I believe this is a team job that requires tones of
>> research and contributions for a lot of areas.
>>
>> Please let us know your interest to get involved in this project. I will
>> list the people interested in doing so. I have one week to let Wiki Rating
>> know if OE can, or cannot, contribute to the project.
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
>> Gustavo
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Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
Gustavo
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