Financial Times Chart of the Day: RIWI Trade Data

RIWI’s latest data on American perceptions of national trade policy was featured as the chat of the day by Financial Times. RIWI’s stable signal reiterates the sentiment that we may be in for a trade war that will last longer than most expect. Read the FT charticle here.

Peace Perceptions Poll Featured in Peace News Net Op-Ed

The inaugural Peace Perceptions Poll established by International Alert, The British Council, and RIWI was featured in an op-ed piece written by International Alert CEO Harriet Lamb. Read her take on the recently released findings from the first ever global public perceptions study on the topic of peace and conflict, here. To learn more about […]

RIWI Trade War Data in Globe & Mail

RIWI’s Head of Global Research, Danielle Goldfarb highlights RIWI’s latest data on the uncertainty caused by the current US trade war, and what that means for Canadian policymakers and investors in a recent Globe & Mail article. For this study, RIWI randomly engaged 10,000 American Web-users and asked questions about their perceptions of trade with […]

Engaging the Malian Electorate

In advance of the upcoming Malian presidential elections, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) commissioned RIWI Corp. to conduct a survey of 2,000 randomly engaged citizens across 10 regions in Mali and the district of Bamako. An innovative methodology was essential to this project in order to gather data NDI used these data to develop a […]

Redefining Health Care: Mining Unstructured Data to Improve Health Care Transitions

In this feature in the sem​iannual publication of the Ontario Hospital Association – Redefining Health Care: A Dialogue on Health Policy – RIWI CEO and Founder Neil Seeman explains applied privacy-sensitive approaches to leveraging different types of data sets to improve patient experiences in healthcare transitions. The examples and applications are global. Mr. Seeman introduces […]

2017-2018 Iranian Protests: Capturing the True Voice of the People

New RIWI data on the 2017-2018 Iranian protests were released on January 26, 2018 by the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, shedding light on the true reasons behind the citizen uprising. University of Toronto researchers examined the levels of confidence for the current government and for Iran’s ‘supreme leader’, Ayatollah […]

World Economic Forum: LGBT+ City Ratings Including RIWI Data

RIWI’s global LGBT+ data were released at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as part of the annual Open for Business report, which focuses on business and development around the world, demonstrating that open, inclusive, and diverse societies are better for economic growth. In addition to the overall report’s Global Situation analysis, RIWI […]

World Economic Forum: Oxfam/RIWI Income Inequality Data Released

RIWI data were released by Oxfam at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland on January 22nd. Data commissioned by Oxfam regarding attitudes towards inequality across multiple middle and high-income countries were released as part of the report Reward Work, Not Wealth which highlights the facts and figures of the ongoing global income inequality crisis. […]

RIWI Predicts the 2017 Australian Same-Sex Marriage Referendum

  RIWI successfully predicted the outcome of the Australian same-sex marriage referendum based on a Viacom / RIWI survey which revealed 60% support for same-sex marriage in Australia – nearly matching the 61.6% result of the public referendum in Australia (conducted officially in Australia via the country’s postal service between September 12 and November 7 […]

Foreign Mining in Ecuador: A Net Positive Effect on the Community and the Economy

Public policy economist Patrick Luciani of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto highlighted RIWI data streams about foreign mining projects in Ecuador in the December 2017 issue of the Canadian Mining Journal. The data suggest that the people of Ecuador share mixed views toward foreign mining; the author’s interpretation suggests there may […]

Data Driven Policy Development Using Citizen Voice

In this webinar, RIWI’s Global Head, Citizen Engagement, Eric Meerkamper, discusses how RIWI technology is used to gather citizen opinion data for data-driven policy development and program initiatives, highlighting examples of RIWI’s applications in global monitoring and evaluation. RIWI has collected opinion data on topics such as food security, gender equality, and public support for […]

RIWI profiled in Fall 2017 Issue of MicroCap Review

RIWI was featured as a Cover Story Company Profile in Fall 2017 Issue of MicroCap Review: “Ever since my graduate work at Harvard studying the misery after a pandemic or terrorist attack, I’ve been fixated on one problem: How do you obtain scientifically reliable, random and predictive data about people’s true fears, actions and behavior from anywhere in the […]