GOALS: provide ideas, inspiration and answers to communities, cities, campuses and companies pursuing happiness, sustainability and resilience for all. It answers the question “now what?” for those who have used the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index for their groups.

The Happiness Data Collaboratory is a project designed to produce the Happiness Data Playbook, scheduled for issuance on December 21, 2014 as part of the Terzo Paradiso (terzoparadiso.org) annual event. Last year. The Happiness Alliance issued the Personal Happiness Handbook as part of the Terzo Paradiso 2013 project.

The Happiness Data Playbook is a guide for community, city, campus and company happiness, sustainability and resilience. It answers the question “now what?” for those who have used the GNH Index for their groups. It is divided into four sections: community, city, campus and company. For each section, it provides up to five policies, projects and programs for each domain. Each policy, program or project will be described in 200 words or less and there will be resources for each. Explanations in the form of description, example and citations with, where possible, links. They will be simple, clear and concise, and written in non-technical English.

Example policies and programs in the domain of governance are:
Community: Corporations Are Not People initiative filing and signature collecting
City: Political festival modeled after a Danish program – a three day public meeting with policy makers, the public, media and NGOs
Company: Worker councils modeled after EU
Campus: Happiness Proclamation/Resolution with model language modeled after UN’s resolution and Happiness Alliance’s proclamation

The Happiness Data Playbook will be issued in the form of a presentation, report and, potentially, interactive website designed to address a group’s GNH scores. The policies, projects and programs are sourced from the Happiness Alliance board members, GNHUSA and their constituency, happiness initiative leaders, and via social media and one-on-one invitations. Anyone can submit an idea through a google form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19iqxtHy7AtsB4Ih2wfYfPzRv9r5AbiscqcjcQT5UBjw/viewform?usp=send_form