http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/many-thanks-jochen/ Digital business strategies Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/many-thanks-jochen/#comment-474 Jochen Thu, 17 May 2007 09:20:44 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/many-thanks-jochen/#comment-474 Dear Carla, Over here in Italy, at the EC's Joint Research Centre, we (the crew of Andrea Saltelli) are trying to organise the jungle of the information society by aggregating complex indicator systems to something more digestible. We are grateful that the EIU has done pioneer work on organising the sub-jungle of e-readiness - congratulations for the good job, and thanks for giving us permission to use your indicators as a good example! Eurostat and OECD have roughly 200 "key" indicators in their databases. Users may be overwhelmed by so many indicators, but this abundance is just proof that policy-making in Europe has become very complex. In democratic societies, ordinary citizens should have the right to understand what's going on - and cautious aggregation is the only way to prevent that citizens give up too early in front of a battery of 200 indicators. "E-readiness" is something everybody can understand - and if a strong institution such as the Economist guarantees that the underlying methodology and data are OK, then citizens are enabled to draw conclusions about their governments' e-readiness performance. We need more of such commitments, for example in areas like gender equality, active citizenship, education and health systems, or how we perform in tackling immigration and the ageing society. Thanks for giving us a good example... Dear Carla,
Over here in Italy, at the EC’s Joint Research Centre, we (the crew of Andrea Saltelli) are trying to organise the jungle of the information society by aggregating complex indicator systems to something more digestible. We are grateful that the EIU has done pioneer work on organising the sub-jungle of e-readiness - congratulations for the good job, and thanks for giving us permission to use your indicators as a good example!
Eurostat and OECD have roughly 200 “key” indicators in their databases. Users may be overwhelmed by so many indicators, but this abundance is just proof that policy-making in Europe has become very complex. In democratic societies, ordinary citizens should have the right to understand what’s going on - and cautious aggregation is the only way to prevent that citizens give up too early in front of a battery of 200 indicators. “E-readiness” is something everybody can understand - and if a strong institution such as the Economist guarantees that the underlying methodology and data are OK, then citizens are enabled to draw conclusions about their governments’ e-readiness performance. We need more of such commitments, for example in areas like gender equality, active citizenship, education and health systems, or how we perform in tackling immigration and the ageing society. Thanks for giving us a good example…

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