About Wikirate.org
Wikirate is an independent wiki platform launched in 2014. Its mission is to create a clearer picture on what companies do, through collaborative editing.
Working together, individuals like yourself editing and contributing to the platform will help companies and their stakeholders see what is being done well and badly.
Stakeholders, ranging from journalists to employees, consumers to suppliers; can discover, share and react to information on the platform
This transparency and accessibility of information gives a real basis to incentivise more sustainable company behaviour.
9. But: with innovations beyond a traditional wiki
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Claims are ‘tagged’ with relevant
topics and companies
Double clicking allows for fast, in
place editing of an article
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= a free, open and trustworthy
source of information about
what companies are really doing;
governed by its community
Editor's Notes
Who we are:
1)
Wikirate + partners…
The go to place for information on companies (and their sustainable activities)
2)
Donation funded by EU
Totally independent, non-profit
Based in Berlin: Lucia, Sara and myself
Team of 13 across 5 countries: Greece, Italy, UK, USA, Germany
The Problem we are trying to solve:
companies affect everyone! in great ways and bad ways.
But it’s not clear how this affect plays out.
Opacity of information/ information asymmetry between companies and their stakeholders
The information is highly distributed and hard to access. Everyone knows something, no-one knows everything
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journalists, consumers, suppliers, employees (or even academics, investors)
Helping a consumer tell the difference in their purchases!
i) Media [Helping other stakeholders too…] Employees; Suppliers
ii) And many more: activists, institutions, investors, governments
iii) local communities like you
Opacity of information/ information asymmetry between companies and their stakeholders
The information is highly distributed and hard to access. Everyone knows something, no-one knows everything
-
journalists, consumers, suppliers, employees (or even academics, investors)
Helping a consumer tell the difference in their purchases!
i) Media [Helping other stakeholders too…] Employees; Suppliers
ii) And many more: activists, institutions, investors, governments
iii) local communities like you
Opacity of information/ information asymmetry between companies and their stakeholders
The information is highly distributed and hard to access. Everyone knows something, no-one knows everything
-
journalists, consumers, suppliers, employees (or even academics, investors)
Helping a consumer tell the difference in their purchases!
i) Media [Helping other stakeholders too…] Employees; Suppliers
ii) And many more: activists, institutions, investors, governments
iii) local communities like you