World’s
Most Positive Countries initiative is back!
The
2012 event to reveal the list of top 10 World’s Most Positive Countries will
recognize countries around the globe with most positive initiatives and
actions. Following last year’s grand introduction of the list, this year it is
back with more enthusiasm and excitement.
The
list is generated based on a pre-defined Positivity Index. The Positivity Index
quantifies positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each
country of the world. According to the index, each country is assigned a score
based on the followings:
- External expert panel rating. These panel members do not work for D+ in any form and are selected based on their individual expertise from around the world. Each panel member will select ten countries. The top most country in each list will score 10 points and the last country in each list will score 1 point. Apart from that these panel lists will also work as benchmark to ensure that our social media fan rating is not biased.
- Internal D+ volunteer-journalist panel rating. Like the external panel this panel members will also select ten countries individually. The top most country in each list will score 10 points and the last country in each list will score 1 point.
- D+ social media fan rating. Each vote will carry 1 point. Anyone can vote with a valid email address. In case of multiple votes from same email address only the first vote will be retained.
- The Country pages on D+ with most number of positive news from 2012 will score higher points. Each published news that took place in 2012 will carry 10 points.
Each
country will score a total from each of the above categories which will then be
added together to compute the final results. The country with the highest total
points is considered the most positive country. Ten countries in all will be
ranked - the most to the tenth most positive countries.
The
list will be revealed on 1 November 2012 and the award ceremony will be held on
25 November 2012 at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Everyone
can participate in the initiative and vote for their positive-country. The
details can be found on D+ Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive
or Click Here to participate.
Last
year Australia topped the list of most positive countries. Other countries in
the list were the United States of America, England, China, Germany, Japan,
France, Canada, New Zealand and India.
For
more information on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2012 initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries
