I want to measure societal impacts of my initiative…
...by assessing capacity building and education

Information

Access to dependable and complete information

Society

Quantitative & qualitative

Primary and Secondary data 

Primary: Project partners, participants
Secondary: Project documentations (reports, information on websites, publications etc.); Online repositories (e.g. Science Direct, Google Scholar, etc.)

Yes, ex ante and ex post 

Absolute values & nominal

Governance

Context, input, process, output, outcome, impact

N/A

Interviews with citizen observatory members and non-members stakeholders; review of project documentations (reports, log-books, etc.); analysis of the initiative tools (platforms, Apps, etc.); literature review 

8-10 questions are available for each topic in the indicator building - too elaborate to include here

Shared stories
• Diversity of the opinions about the topic of the observatory: level of consensus on implications, causes, etc.
• The awareness or urgency for the topic of the observatory among the involved community members
• Intensity of social conflicts (excluding conflicts relating to land)

Trusted sources
• The awareness of residents of the available official information sources (about the issue of the observatory).
• The amount and distribution of other (non-)trustworthy information sources.
• The information that community members use to base their opinions on.
• People reporting to be not at all interested in politics

Timely and accurate information
• The location-specificity of the available information on the observatory topic
• The time intervals in which is the available information is being distributed. The correlation of that with the speed at which reality changes.
• The channels through which the information is shared with the public and the part of the community that is reached.
• Internet use by type of activity Individuals using the Internet from any location

Low

Resource demanding

 Resource demanding

Wehn et al. (2017, 2019, 2020)