The Dashboard and the Competitive Culture

The dashboard discussion reminds me a lot of these kind of best of lists, like the economists most livable city. And i'm curious how the dashboard plays into cities need to be recognized with some sort of a data scoring system. The first thing that comes to my mind is thinking about platformrs, like an offshore platform, which is very extractedri tesawell. It's maybe colonialistic or extractive in a certain way,. more than maybe the proous idea about librariessteals.