World Social Capital Monitor

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Global-Innovation

Global-Innovation Exchange

Project start date: 1/1/2016

World Social Capital Monitor

Switzerland

For the first time in history, in order to accelerate the SDGs people can score on eight crucial local social goods by open access and in 46 languages yet.

Scaling

1 - 6 months

$100,000.00

Last update: October 05, 2023

OverviewContributors

Challenge

According to our studies on achieving and financing the SDGs, they entirely depend on public goods. To providing public goods at the size of $3 trillion per year - that includes stopping Climate Change and as well SDG 10 and SDG 16 - social goods such as trust, solidarity and the willingness to co-finance public goods are hardly needed. Unfortunately these goods are no indicators in the SDGs process.

Description

The World Social Capital Monitor is an instrument for measuring social goods and social capital created by the United Nations Sustainable Development Group in partnership with civil society actors. The project identifies social values such as trust, solidarity, helpfulness, friendliness, hospitality and the willingness to finance public goods with the help of anonymous surveys. The surveys started in 2016 and so far 30,000 participants from 141 countries participated in the World Social Capital Monitor. The software for the World Social Capital Monitor was developed by the sociologist Alexander Dill of the Basel Institute of Commons and Economics and the computer scientist Nazmus Saquib of the Technical University of Munich. The findings are expected to provide new insights into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and provide an alternative to traditional indices such as the Human Development Index, as they take into account intangible assets.

Methodology

The monitor is using eight questions who can be rated on a scale from 1 to 10. 1 is the worst possible value (like lowest friendliness) and 10 represents the best possible value (like highest confidence).[2]

  • Climate (Please characterize the Social Climate of your place?)

  • Trust (Trust among the people?)

  • Measures (Will the people accept personal austerity measures in order to finance public goods like security, healthcare, education, environmental issues, infrastructure, social aid, public media, arts ?)

  • Taxes (Will the people accept taxes and contributions to finance public goods like security, healthcare, education, environmental issues, infrastructure, social aid, public media, arts ?)

  • Local invest (Are people willing to invest in national and regional assets like shares in cooperatives, national and local stocks, shares in SME (small and medium enterprises), own or family business ?)

  • Helpfulness (Helpfulness across the people?)

  • Friendliness (Friendliness of the people?)

  • Hospitality (Hospitality of the people?)

SDGs

NO POVERTYZERO HUNGERGOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEINGQUALITY EDUCATIONGENDER EQUALITYCLEAN WATER AND SANITATIONAFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGYDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTHINDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTUREREDUCED INEQUALITIESSUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIESRESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTIONCLIMATE ACTIONLIFE BELOW WATERLIFE ON LANDPEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONSPARTNERSHIP FOR THE GOALS

Outcomes

Enabled the assessment and enhancement of social goods such as trust, solidarity, and willingness to co-finance public goods; available in 46 languages; impacted 200,000 lives in 29 countries.