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What is the Readers' Choice Awards?
The inaugural GRI Readers' Choice Awards Survey of 2008 was designed to give all sustainability report readers worldwide the opportunity to shape the future of best practice in sustainability reporting by voicing their opinions on the state of reporting today.
The following questions were in need of an answer:
Thousands of companies issue sustainability reports each year, but who reads them? What do the readers think of reports? Do reports meet the needs of the audiences they are intended for: communities, investors, employees, customers, journalists, and non-governmental organizations?
GRI and its partners developed the GRI Readers' Choice Awards concept as a way to capture the preferences of readers, but also as a way to alert potential new readers to the value of sustainability information available to them today.
Readers’ Choice Awards 2010: What’s New?
The preparation for Readers’ Choice Awards 2010 has already begun with the original team, comprising KPMG, Tata Consultancy Services, ACCA, SustainAbility and GRI, being joined by a welcome addition - Futerra Communications.
The team was enthusiastic about the idea of repeating the Readers’ Choice Awards that was so successful in 2008, but this year have taken a fresh view on the earlier methodology. We call it learning by doing.
As with last time, there will be a Readers’ Survey and a Scoring Module created to capture readers’ opinions on sustainability reports. However, this time the two will be integrated into one user-friendly system. In addition, for the first time, there will be a survey asking report makers what their objectives are in reporting.
The combined survey and scoring will gauge whether sustainability reports are meeting the needs of their intended audiences, and most importantly, ask the question: do reports really effect change in terms of readers’ views and behavior?
Find out more on the Readers’ Choice Award website.
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