“World Survey of Mental Illness Stigma” in the Journal of Affective Disorders

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 […]

“Reaching New Voices With New Technologies” RIWI in Aptivate

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 […]

“Truly game changing” report by RIWI Corp. Questions quality and reliability of massive body of traditional online survey research

“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 […]

Quirk’s Nov 2014 | MR’s data innovation: working beyond the buzzwords

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 at IIeX Amsterdam 2015: “Who in the world are we talking to?”

Who in the world are we talking to? Why and how are RIWI’s respondents characteristically different from traditional survey takers? In this year’s GRIT Consumer Participation in Research report, set for release in April, RIWI compares fresh and frequent respondents by various attributes. With over 50,000 respondents from 56 countries, we breakdown the data by […]

Independent Security Expert for Sony: “North Koreans were there”

By Bob Seeman At the annual Wall Street Journal invitation-only CIO Network Conference yesterday in San Diego, Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Strategist of FireEye and Shuman Ghosemajumder of Shape Security discussed what have we learned about cybersecurity from hacks into Sony, Target and the federal government. In response to the Sony hack, Bejtlich became an […]

Live from San Diego, Craig Venter: “Are we all just software?”

By Bob Seeman (This conference is an annual invitation-only Wall Street Journal CIO Network in San Diego.) Today, J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., known for first sequencing the entire DNA code of a human, gave a speech entitled “Are we all just software?” The talk took place at the annual invitation-only Wall Street Journal CIO Network […]