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1. Making Companies Clearer
A Short Introduction
Sustainability Drinks Berlin, 30.10.2014

2. Product video
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3. 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 and
clear transparent information about what companies do
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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’
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8. 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
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9. How can you get involved?
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(Open) Data organisations
Contact us,
let us help you share
the open data you have
Journalists/Investors
Watch this space;
let us know what's
missing?
Companies
Get in touch, out your info
out there; let us know
how we can improve the
interface
Advocacy organisations
Share your research;
if it is public,
upload as a source
on Wikirate.org
Citizens
Read, 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
Students
Wikirate x; start initiative
at your university
There are various
ways to get involved.
All which start with a
simple sign up at
Wikirate.org
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10. The Wikirate Project partners
Project launch: October 2013
Funding partners: European Commission (CAPS); until October 2016
Consortium partners: 7 partners across Europe and the US
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11. Sneak preview: Upcoming features
• Improved user profile pages
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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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12. Sneak preview: Upcoming features
• Up- and down voting of claims
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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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13. Sneak preview: Upcoming features
• Multi-lingual support
• Content and company ratings
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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
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The vision for the future
is for the community to
rate not just content,
but also companies
themselves

14. Product demo
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15. Thank you for your attention! Questions?
Let’s keep in touch:
 Facebook: www.facebook.com/wikirate
 Twitter: @wikirate
 E-mail: Vishal@wikirate.org
Lucia@wikirate.org
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