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2016 Community of Practice

The first edition of the Community of Practice counted with the participation of a wide range of international organisations, EU institutions and universities which addressed the uses and misuses of indices and scoreboards, online tools and a close-up on the different methods used to build these measures.

29 September 2016

Panel I

Indices & Scoreboards for Policy - Uses and Misuses

Digital Economy & Society Index (DESI)  Balazs Zorenyi, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology

Macroeconomic Imbalances Scoreboard - Jonas Fischer, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs

Gender Equality Index (GEI) - Marre Karu, European Institute for Gender Equality

Panel II

Indices & Scoreboards for Policy - Tools and Platforms

Visualizing Quality: Towards Tangible Urban Processes - Ariel Noyman, Research Scientist, M.I.T Media Lab

European Digital City Index (EDCI) - Siddharth Bannerjee, NESTA

Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) - Markus Meinzer, Tax Justice Network

Better Life Index - Elena Tosetto, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Panel III

Indices & Scoreboards for Science - Methods & Insights

Universities as Celebrities - Andrea Bonaccorsi, Pisa University 

Civic Competence of Youth in Europe: Measuring Cross National variation through the Creation of a Composite Indicator - Bryony Hoskins, University of Roehampton

Dimensions of Well-Being and Their Statistical Measurements - Maurizio Vichi, University of Rome La Sapienza

Geometric Mean Quantity Index Numbers with Benefit-of-the-Doubt Weights - Tom Van Puyenbroeck, KU Leuven, Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles

Panel III - A new approach to the QS university ranking using the composite I-distance indicator: Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses - Veljko Jeremic, University of Belgrade