TY - GEN
T1 - WikiRate.org - leveraging collective awareness to understand companies' environmental, social and governance performance
AU - Mills, Richard
AU - De Paoli, Stefano
AU - Diplaris, Sotiris
AU - Gkatziaki, Vasiliki
AU - Papadopoulos, Symeon
AU - Prasad, Srivigneshwar R.
AU - McCutchen, Ethan
AU - Kapadia, Vishal
AU - Hirche, Philipp
PY - 2016/8/25
Y1 - 2016/8/25
N2 - Abstract. WikiRate is a Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) project with the aim of \crowdsourcing better companies" through analysis of their Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) performance. Research to inform the design of the platform involved surveying the current corporate ESG information
landscape, and identifying ways in which an open approach and peer production ethos could be e ffectively mobilised to improve this landscape's fertility. The key requirement identi ed is for an open public repository of data tracking companies' ESG performance. Corporate Social Responsibility reporting is conducted in public, but there are barriers to accessing
the information in a standardised analysable format. Analyses of and ratings built upon this data can exert power over companies' behaviour in certain circumstances, but the public at large have no access to the data or the most infuential ratings that utilise it. WikiRate aims to build an open repository for this data along with tools for analysis, to increase
public demand for the data, allow a broader range of stakeholders to participate in its interpretation, and in turn drive companies to behave in a more ethical manner. This paper describes the quantitative Metrics system that has been designed to meet those objectives and some early examples of its use.
AB - Abstract. WikiRate is a Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) project with the aim of \crowdsourcing better companies" through analysis of their Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) performance. Research to inform the design of the platform involved surveying the current corporate ESG information
landscape, and identifying ways in which an open approach and peer production ethos could be e ffectively mobilised to improve this landscape's fertility. The key requirement identi ed is for an open public repository of data tracking companies' ESG performance. Corporate Social Responsibility reporting is conducted in public, but there are barriers to accessing
the information in a standardised analysable format. Analyses of and ratings built upon this data can exert power over companies' behaviour in certain circumstances, but the public at large have no access to the data or the most infuential ratings that utilise it. WikiRate aims to build an open repository for this data along with tools for analysis, to increase
public demand for the data, allow a broader range of stakeholders to participate in its interpretation, and in turn drive companies to behave in a more ethical manner. This paper describes the quantitative Metrics system that has been designed to meet those objectives and some early examples of its use.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_7
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319459813
SN - 9783319459820
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 74
EP - 88
BT - Internet Science, INSCI2016
A2 - Bagnoli, Franco
A2 - Satsiou, Anna
A2 - Stavrakakis, Ioannis
A2 - Nesi, Paolo
A2 - Pacini, Giovanna
A2 - Welp, Yanina
A2 - Tiropan, Thanassis
A2 - DiFranzo, Dominic
PB - Springer
CY - Chambray
ER -
