Web-COSI

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Web-COSI is a grassroots co-ordination action project with the general objective to improve the engagement of citizens and society at large with statistics in the area of new measures of societal progress and well-being. Under the mantra ‘Statistics for Everyone’, Web-COSI explores innovative ways to bring the production, promotion, access and engagement with statistics to life.

Web COmmunities for Statistics for Social Innovation (Web-COSI) is based on a four-partner consortium that sees the collaboration among two powerful Institutions (Istat – the Italian National Statistical Institute (the coordinator of the consortium) and OECD – the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), characterized by a historical top-down approach, and two young civil society Organisations (Lunaria – the Italian Promotion Association and i-genius – the Social Entrepreneur Business and Enterprise Community), representing society at large pushing for a bottom-up approach. The consortium is multidisciplinary and well-balanced to work creating synergies in order to impact towards a growing integration of the different approaches. The partners are linked by complementing expertise and each one represents a strategic actor within the target domain.

Web-COSI was designed to improve people’s engagement with statistics beyond GDP. It aimed to:

+ increase trust in collectively generated statistics
+ encourage the use of both official and non-official statistics
+ improve the collection, production and visualisation of data related to societal progress and well-being
+ facilitate access, uploading and use of data produced by grassroots civil society organisations
+ promote the use of a broader range of statistics to inform the development of new indicators


The project improved citizen access and use of statistics beyond GDP by:

+ mapping existing measurement initiatives in Europe and around the world
+ involving communities to foster the use of locally generated grassroots data (bottom up)
+ distilling best practice from civil society initiatives supporting the need for official and non-official statistics in debating policy issues
+ investigating the experiences of social entrepreneurs; highlighting their involvement in measuring well-being and progress to steer socially sustainable and innovative initiatives.


i-genius Reports

Deliverable report on “The four focus groups of social entrepreneurs in four EU locations to gain a sample perspective on how data can be best utilised in their locality.”
Vilnius, Riga, Amsterdam, Ljubljana, September 2015
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EU Seminar comprising social entrepreneurs and EU policy makers to explore the findings of the data and consultations in order to explore implications for policy
Belgium, July 2015
To view presentations and photos on Web-COSI: click here!
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Report on better practice models in a variety of areas related to social entrepreneurship (e.g. health, education, community cohesion) and on the mapping exercise
European Union, May 2015
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Workshop to create new methods and develop existing methods on creating critical mass on the usage of data for driving social entrepreneurship initiatives
UK, February 2015
To view presentations and watch web-cast videos on Web-COSI: click here!
To view deliverable report: click here!


Find out more visit: http://www.webcosi.eu

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