Overcoming online information overload
Using systematically defined #tags and wikis on the available social media platforms will yield significant benefits in fighting online information overload as it allows users to indicate online that a post, article or message has been catagorized in one or more "topic dimensions".
Topic dimensions
For these topic dimensions, the Actor Atlas defines hashtags that cover it for 360°.topic dimension | hashtag type |
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major languages | Languages: codes and countries |
products and services | #CPC hashtags |
(sustainable development) goals and targets such as reducing poverty | #SDGs hashtags |
economic activities such as transportation and construction | #isicWW hashtags |
functions of government such as in education and environmental protection | #cofogWW hashtags |
local territories: a country, state, city | Country hashtags and #WWlgu tags |
codes for reporting about the destination of aid contributions | DAC 5 and CRS Codes (OECD DAC) |
Action and initiative dimensions
- There is a #udhr hashtag for each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- There is a #a4a2030 hashtag for each article of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda
- There is a #pacc hashtag for each article of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change(December 2015).
- There is a #nua2030 hashtag for each article of the New Urban Agenda (under construction).
Benefits of using systematically defined hashtags
Search for a #tag brings the content together, as in a tiny globally shared public drawer, a micro-commons, supporting the public discourse about the specific topic.
This micro-commons is open 24/7 to anyone (with access to the internet). All can use the #tag, either for looking up for a topic how the "status including brainstorm" has evolved, or for contributing genuine new content.
Moreover, the #tag timeline will expose "repeated" content and thus counter the familiar "repeater" attitude that currently pollutes media and debates. Liking, plussing, or reposting are encouraged of course. While public meetings and initiatives will continue to matter, absent parties will not be "left out" - simply looking up tagged content brings them up-to-date.
A citizen who likes to verify - transparency -, engage in, or contribute to an exchange of ideas, should find in seconds the #tag corresponding to a topic.
Tools
To find out which hashtag to use for your content, check out the tools listed at #tag guidelines (atria.us).
The backlinks below usually do not include the child and sibling items, nor the pages in the breadcrumbs.
- Central Product Classification v. 2.1
- Civic participation at level 1 - Follow
- Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG)
- #cofog011 - Executive and legislative organs, financial and fiscal affairs, external affairs
- #cofog012 - Foreign economic aid
- #cofog013 - General services
- #cofog014 - Basic research
- #cofog015 - R&D General public services
- #cofog017 - Public debt transactions
- #cofog018 - Transfers of a general character between different levels of government
- #cofog021 - Military defence
- #cofog022 - Civil defence
- #cofog023 - Foreign military aid
- #cofog024 - R&D Defence
- #cofog025 - Defence n.e.c.
- #cofog031 - Police services
- #cofog032 - Fire-protection services
- #cofog033 - Law courts
- #cofog034 - Prisons
- #cofog035 - R&D Public order and safety
- #cofog036 - Public order and safety n.e.c.
- #cofog041 - General economic, commercial and labour affairs
- #cofog042 - Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- #cofog043 - Fuel and energy
- #cofog044 - Mining, manufacturing and construction
- #cofog045 - Transport
- #cofog046 - Communication
- #cofog047 - Other industries
- #cofog048 - R&D Economic affairs
- #cofog049 - Economic affairs n.e.c.
- #cofog051 - Waste management (CS)
- #cofog052 - Waste water management (CS)
- #cofog053 - Pollution abatement (CS)
- #cofog054 - Protection of biodiversity and landscape (CS)
- #cofog055 - R&D Environmental protection (CS)
- #cofog056 - Environmental protection n.e.c. (CS)
- #cofog061 - Housing development (CS)
- #cofog062 - Community development (CS)
- #cofog063 - Water supply (CS)
- #cofog064 - Street lighting (CS)
- #cofog065 - R&D Housing and community amenities (CS)
- #cofog066 - Housing and community amenities n.e.c. (CS)
- #cofog071 - Medical products, appliances and equipment
- #cofog072 - Outpatient services
- #cofog073 - Hospital services
- #cofog074 - Public health services
- #cofog075 - R&D Health
- #cofog076 - Health n.e.c.
- #cofog081 - Recreational and sporting services (IS)
- #cofog082 - Cultural services (IS)
- #cofog083 - Broadcasting and publishing services (CS)
- #cofog084 - Religious and other community services (CS)
- #cofog085 - R&D Recreation, culture and religion (CS)
- #cofog086 - Recreation, culture and religion n.e.c. (CS)
- #cofog091 - Pre-primary and primary education
- #cofog092 - Secondary education
- #cofog093 - Post-secondary non-tertiary education
- #cofog094 - Tertiary education
- #cofog095 - Education not definable by level
- #cofog096 - Subsidiary services to education
- #cofog097 - R&D Education
- #cofog098 - Education n.e.c.
- #cofog101 - Sickness and disability
- #cofog102 - Old age
- #cofog103 - Survivors
- #cofog104 - Family and children
- #cofog105 - Unemployment
- #cofog106 - Housing
- #cofog107 - Social exclusion n.e.c.
- #cofog108 - R&D Social protection
- #cofog109 - Social protection n.e.c.
- Country
- #covid19lgu
- #CPC hashtags
- #digicoop - Declaration of Digital Interdependence
- #election_lgu
- Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS, Harmonized System)
- International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Rev. 4
- #isicWW hashtags
- ISO 3166 - Country codes
- Language (pdf/print friendly)
- Languages: codes and countries
- Macro journey
- Meso journey
- Micro journey
- Pico journey
- #SDGs hashtags
- Side
- Social architecture
- #Tagcoding
- Topic dimension
- US congressional hashtags
- #WWlgu hashtags
#tagcoding tags for goods, services and bads