Startup Manifesto Status Tracker

The Startup Manifesto launched by the members of the Leaders Club on 02 September 2013 in London is a compelling 5-point, 22-action plan aimed at giving European businesses the best chance of future success. This task will track the progress achieved in the realisation of the Startup Manifesto recommendations. We will employ a visual, web-based and open approach to monitoring policy progress. This tool will provide an easy-to-understand overview of how far each Member State is in implementing the 22 actions put forward. This has the potential to inform a wider group of people than would be the case with ordinary means, such as a report, but it also has the likely effect of initiating a healthy competition between Member States to improve their relative ranking. The tool will be based on the following elements: (1) a central website where information can be directly updated on the policy progress, and is immediately published; (2) an intelligently crafted crowdsourcing approach, where information is uploaded directly on the website by a limited set of appointed authors, either officials from Member States, or a set of appointed experts; (3) a checklist-based approach to policy monitoring. Each action point of the Manifesto is translated into 3-4 concrete measures with Yes or No answers, backed up by supporting text; (4) a real time visualisation of the policy progress through a traffic light system. This task will be sub-contracted to Open Evidence, developer of unique tools for monitoring other flagship EU programmes, such as the progress of the Digital Agenda in the Member States, the eGovernment Action Plan and the Pledge Tracker of the Grand Coalition for Growth and Jobs. Thus Open Evidence is well qualified and uniquely positioned to realise this task in the most efficient and effective way and deliver a product of the highest quality standards accessible to a wide audience