1. Ubiquitous Participation Platform for Policy Making UbiPOL Karim AL-YAFI RA, ISEing Research group Brunel Business School, Brunel University Building Perfect Council Websites ‘10

5. Project Aims 1- UbiPOL aims to provide a ubiquitous participation platform that allows citizens to participate in the policy making process during their everyday life through providing relevant policies and others opinions that affect their life wherever they are located 2- To provide policy makers with the necessary intelligent tools to observe citizens’ reactions and behaviours through the policy making life cycle

7. Opinion / Policy Base Opin/Pol Mining Engine PLM Instances Process Engine UbiPOL Backend Components & Elements Identity Mgt External POI base Interface v UbiPOL Server v

9. WP3 (PDMFC) Ubiquitous Participation Platform WP4 (BASA) UbiPOL services and applications CORV BRUNEL EASYC TURKSAT SU PDMFC BASAR Tracking svc. Authentication svc. Retrieval/notifi. svc. Knowldg sharing svc. WP5 (EASY) Concept Evaluation Evaluation metrics Evaluation Applications Ontology & repository Security &identity Mobile computing Scalable server Map data processing WP2 (BRUNEL) PMWF Model WF Modeling Validation FOKUS IPASA Privacy/ data mining Tracking engine

10. Impact of UbiPOL Improved empowerment and engagement in policy making processes Increased trust of citizens through transparency and feedback More efficient collection of feedback to continuously improve governance UbiPOL Increased awareness of policies via penetration into citizen’s usual life Increased transparency via tracking service (opinion tag) Fresh opinion collection (No loss as it is captured when it is created)

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