RIWI is honoured to have its RDIT technology recognized as a leading innovative approach to engaging citizens globally, and particularly in otherwise hard-to-reach countries and regions. The full guide is now live and free to download on the World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository. Photo: Africa Media Online/Antony Kaminju
As the Zika virus continues to spread rapidly through the Americas, RIWI conducted a survey in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela to track people’s varying levels of confidence in government and public health authorities. Read more on this exclusive data RIWI shared with The Guardian. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Following the ISIS attack in Paris and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane, Russia ramped up its bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria while the United States did not make any significant strategic changes. RIWI began tracking citizen attitudes in Russia and the United States towards their respective governments’ responses to the ISIS threat. […]
In the ten days prior to the elections in Turkey on November 1, 2015, Turkish in-market data companies are prohibited from publishing their poll results. RIWI’s virtual survey from thousands of miles away continued, and its data published in a Special Edition of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs on October 28, 2015 showed increasing […]
RIWI is excited to have conducted a study on youth mental health for Headspace, the National Youth Mental Health Foundation, earlier this year. The study gathered data from over 2,000 respondents in each of the following countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and USA. The results were presented by Debra Rickwood, […]
RIWI’s CEO, CTO and colleagues at the University of Toronto have published “World Survey of Mental Illness Stigma” in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The study’s objective was to obtain rapid and reproducible opinions that address mental illness stigma around the world. “We know from many international leaders in the mental health policy community that […]
In Canada’s National Post and Huffington Post, Patrick Luciani highlights data from a recent RIWI study among Mexicans of different socio-economic groups. Mexicans report that they have not been drinking fewer sugary drinks since the tax was imposed, nor do they support higher taxes as a way to reduce obesity. See full results here. Image […]
Originally posted on the GreenBook Blog By Allan Fromen It’s a really fun time to be in market research. As June’s IIeX conference demonstrated, there is a plethora of innovative start-ups shaking up the industry. I had the pleasure of introducing Jeff Bander from Sticky, a company that aims to bring the previously expensive methodology […]
A recent article by Aengus Carroll and George Robotham examines RIWI data and why the Irish same-sex marriage referendum was not a surprise. Through data collected using RDIT, experts are now able to address several core challenges to data collection amongst LGBTI populations, especially those in hostile states, in terms of cost, reach, security, and […]
Aptivate, a UK based non-profit that builds websites and databases for communities in developing countries came into contact with RIWI when both companies worked with the World Bank to create the “World Bank’s Guide to Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement”. Aptivate invited RIWI to share the innovative process and uses of RDIT on their blog, co-authored by […]
“We have relied too heavily on the same respondents for too long, and we need to embrace innovative and new ways to understand people.” – Dan Foreman, Past President of European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR) Mexico City and Toronto, April 14, 2015 − Can decision-makers trust surveys that rely on frequent survey-takers […]
By Neil Seeman for Quirk’s Marketing Research Review At the time of writing, there are roughly 500,000 hits on Google to the search string “market research” and “disruptive.” There are hundreds of company-sponsored blog posts about supposedly disruptive trends in market research, notably the hackneyed Silicon Valley slogan SoLoMo (social local mobile), online communities, big data, neuroscience or text analytics. Depending […]
RIWI is pleased to announce that it has acquired CoolTool – a leading platform for conscious and nonconscious insights!