Rotterdam Index

www.rotterdamindex.nl

De Rotterdam Index (RIX) is a online games about Rotterdam neighbourhoods. The idea behind it is that people who subscribe receive a virtual budjet. With this budjet they can invest in Rotterdam neighbourhoods. By playing, trading in stocks of specific neighbourhoods, players show their opinions on these neighbourhoods. The game registrates the sentiments in the city. RIX shows the ‘state of sentiment’ of the city. This effect is intensified by news messages about the city. These messages are weighed and considered in the currency of the neighbourhoods. This way RIX offers a double information market; it gives an insight in the running opinion on several developments in the city and it is a growing databank of rural news.

Final products

RIX has the goal to enlarge the participation of citizens with their city and the involvement of local politicans with their civilians. RIX hopes to be able to put ‘district informants’ and columnists to work as journalists for the website and also to promote the use of RIX in education.

Contact

Stichting Stedelijke Informatiemarkt
Joost van Eeden
www.rotterdamindex.nl