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The ProjectIntroduction Page 3Mission Statement Page 6Who’s Behind this and Why? Page 7Why Will People Participate? Page 14What are We Building? Page 18

The WorkDefinitions/Direction Page 22The Timeline Page 26

Join Us. Get H(app)y Page 29

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What’s the H(app)athon Project?

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The H(app)athon Project is a fifteen month initiative comprised of surveys, awareness-building events and hackathons with a goal of building technology that can improve people’s well-being and the way the world measures value.

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Mission Statement

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To utilize emerging technology to improve human well-being and drive positive social change.

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Who’s Behind This and Why?

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WHO. Our Committee is made up of Experts focused on well-being, Big Data, Quantified Self, Internet of Things, Emerging Media and policy creation. We work at a lot of different organizations but are aligned on one purpose: to guide the open-source creation of an ethically based mobile tool that teaches people how to optimize their lives and help others.

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The Committee

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Full Committee listing at happathon.com

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WHY. We’re doing this Project because we believe, as RFK pointed out over 40 years ago, that GDP is not a sufficient measure of holistic value of well-being for individuals, countries or the world.

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GDP Counts• Air pollution• Cigarette advertising• Locks for our doors• Jails for people who break them• Destruction of the redwoods• Napalm• Nuclear warheads• Armored police cars to fight riots

GDP Doesn’t Count• The health of our children• Quality of their education• Joy of their play• Beauty of our poetry• Integrity of our public officials• Our wit• Our courage• Our compassion

WHY. These are the factors that GDP does and doesn’t measure, according to RFK from his speech delivered to the University of Kansas, 3/18/1968.

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CrowdSource Global Well-Being Indicator Address Ethics

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WHY.

Our Project also utilizes the wisdom of the crowd to define a global well-being Indicator guided by Participant’s feedback. Along the way, we’ll address/inform Participants around the issues of ethics concerning data collection in the digital arena.

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WHY.

We love data. Mike Tully created a progressive series of graphs for his work called Visualizing the World’s Well-Being. Like Mike, we believe that once you shape and analyze data you have the opportunity to mine informed insights. We’re creating an app that will feature this kind of visual data for users.

Why Will People Participate?

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People Want to Live an Examined Life. Our lives and actions are being tracked by technology. We want to give individuals the tools to make the best use of their data to improve their overall well-being.

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People Want Big Data to Have Direction. People are worried about their identity being absorbed by modern technology. We’re providing an ethically directed, holistic sense of value as a framework for Big Data that guides people to improve their well-being and the world at large.

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1) Live an Examined Life.We’re creating three unique Mobile Happiness Indicator Surveys (mHIS) over the course of the Project:

• Designed by multiple well-being (happiness) experts

• Crowdsources a well-being Index (think Gross National Happiness)

• Advanced mobile/sensor tech (third survey) gauges action as well as words for robust and unique study measurement

• Participants improve their well-being by comparing their data with others and via resources recommended by Committee and other participants

2) Learn How to Improve/Optimize.Survey participants (project community members) improve their well-being (happiness) via:

• H(app)athons – Multiple awareness building events

• Project website/blog – Expert contributions on well-being, Big Data, mobile technology

• Project wiki – community speaks for itself

• Hackathons – caffeine and tech builds, x3

• Conference – March, 2014 in NYC reveals our findings and our technology

3) Help Others.Spread the love. Save the world.

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What are We Building?

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Our Product is our Process. We want to help people see how their well-being is measured by data and provide them with resources to help them optimize their lives. In this way, our “product” is the process that includes their voices and victories as part of our Vision.

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Our Product is also Tangible. We’re building technology (probably an App) to release on 3.20.2014 with an open API for developers/anyone to use.

What It Will Do:

• Personal decisions and policy creation can be guide by crowdsourced, open data

• Provide data (opt-in) that can form a picture of global, holistic, well-being that acts as “mood ring for the planet”

• Provide an individual with resources (links, content, videos, community) to help optimize areas they wish to address

• Help an individual see how their well-being compares to others (in their social graph/other countries around the world)

• Help an individual understand the areas of their life where they lack well-being (in 10-12 areas we identify that correspond with a global Happiness Indicator framework)

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The Work

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The Committee. About thirty experts guiding the Project.

Mobile Happiness Indicator Survey (mHIS). Where we crowdsource/discover h(app)iness.

The H(app)athons. Awareness building events, playful in nature (“Toolkits” let people do their own).

The Hackathons. Events where we build our Technology Platform.

The Tech. App we release on 3.20.2014.

The Conference. Where we share our progress/technology on 3.20.2014.

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A New Kind of Survey.

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The Mobile Happiness Indicator Survey (mHIS).2-week’s worth of questions and insights delivered on your phone. Compare your answers with global peers, optimize – then amplify your positive change to the world.

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Gather. Mince. Repeat.

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1) Gather. We ask questions via our Mobile Happiness Indicator Survey (mHIS) to create a crowdsourced well-being Indicator/feedback loop.

2) Mince. Results of our survey are posted publicly and used as the basis to build technology at our hackathons.

3) RepeatWe’re running this cycle three times over the course of the Project to be as inclusive/conclusive as possible.

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The Three Cycles.

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1) Get Aware.Happathons and Hackathons in Cycle One are focused on education and awareness around the issues of well-being and emerging technology.

2) Get Civic. Next we invite communities and policy makers to come and play by helping us refine our crowdsourced well-being Indicators.

3) Get it Together. The Committee guided by community builds the App and plans the Conference.

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The Timeline.

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12.28.2012Public Launch -Press Release-Newsletter CTA -Mashable Article

2.11.2013mHIS Launch -First Survey released-Data for Hackathons

Fall, 2013Third Cycle Launch-Details TBD

3.20.2014Public Launch -Details TBD

Summer, 2013Second Cycle Launch -Details TBD

3.20.2013First Cycle Launch-Happathons in London, NYC-”Toolkit” Events-Hackathons

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Thank You.

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Help us Hack H(app)iness. Take the survey. Run your own H(app)athon. Sponsor a hackathon

or our conference. Come to an event or write on our wiki.

And be h(app)y.

More info and newsletter/survey sign-up at happathon.com

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