2 hours ago Esha Reddy Pulakurthi  Week 8 COLLAPSE Top of Form Tools and Technologies for Making Policies. With the current technologies advancement in the field of information and communication policy making processes is faced with numerous opportunities to make it look modern to enhance efficiency and help develop great policies that can help optimize and minimize waiting time for passengers.             With the help of enhanced data collection and processing capabilitiesin train environment, there will be reduced time taken in working on and interpreting data related to passenger and train movement. Data mining technologies will be used to process passenger information and provide timely schedules using computer aided decisions. With increased human resource coordination, higher technology in data collection and processing strategies, there will be timely schedule and in the smart city environment (Kamateri, Panopoulou, Tambouris, Tarabanis, Ojo, Lee, & Price, 2015). The provision of education, training and outcome hearing is a major factor that need consideration in reducing train waiting time and improve time scheduling. This way will reduce energy wastage and also make a great contribution to the success of all other tools and technologies. These all are procedural tools that follow each other where understanding and proper implementing them will yield great results. Incorporating the above two tools and technologies in the smart environment, there will be vast movement of information a prompt passenger movement schedule that is timely and energy saving (Rowlands, 1996). References Kamateri, E., Panopoulou, E., Tambouris, E., Tarabanis, K., Ojo, A., Lee, D., & Price, D. (2015). A comparative analysis of tools and technologies for policy making. In Policy practice and digital science (pp. 125-156). Springer, Cham. Rowlands, I. (1996). Understanding information policy: concepts, frameworks and research tools. Journal of information Science, 22(1), 13-25. Bottom of Form 2 days ago Shravani Kasturi  Discussion COLLAPSE Top of Form Useful Tools in Policy Making             Policy-making involves effective decision-making. Various techniques and tools are applied in organizing thoughts towards making and implementing working policies. In policy-making, long-term decisions have to be made in order to avoid fallacies that can fail big projects. For instance, the transport industry serves a lot of people every day. The industry needs policies that can help in improving their services. Train and bus services need to be time conscience by working with policies that favor the movement schedules of most of their clients. People living within SmartCity environments depend highly on technology to access information and communicate. This means planners and policy makers have to create an effective transport network to make life manageable for city inhabitants.             Local administrations in various developed nations lack enough competen ...

1. 2 hours ago
Esha Reddy Pulakurthi
Week 8
COLLAPSE
Top of Form
Tools and Technologies for Making Policies.
With the current technologies advancement in the field of
information and communication policy making processes is
faced with numerous opportunities to make it look modern to
enhance efficiency and help develop great policies that can help
optimize and minimize waiting time for passengers.
With the help of enhanced data collection and
processing capabilitiesin train environment, there will be
reduced time taken in working on and interpreting data related
to passenger and train movement. Data mining technologies will
be used to process passenger information and provide timely
schedules using computer aided decisions. With increased
human resource coordination, higher technology in data
collection and processing strategies, there will be timely
schedule and in the smart city environment (Kamateri,
Panopoulou, Tambouris, Tarabanis, Ojo, Lee, & Price, 2015).
The provision of education, training and outcome hearing is a
major factor that need consideration in reducing train waiting
time and improve time scheduling. This way will reduce energy
wastage and also make a great contribution to the success of all
other tools and technologies. These all are procedural tools that
follow each other where understanding and proper implementing
them will yield great results. Incorporating the above two tools
and technologies in the smart environment, there will be vast
movement of information a prompt passenger movement
schedule that is timely and energy saving (Rowlands, 1996).

2. References
Kamateri, E., Panopoulou, E., Tambouris, E., Tarabanis, K.,
Ojo, A., Lee, D., & Price, D. (2015). A comparative analysis of
tools and technologies for policy making. In Policy practice and
digital science (pp. 125-156). Springer, Cham.
Rowlands, I. (1996). Understanding information policy:
concepts, frameworks and research tools. Journal of information
Science, 22(1), 13-25.
Bottom of Form
2 days ago
Shravani Kasturi
Discussion
COLLAPSE
Top of Form
Useful Tools in Policy Making
Policy-making involves effective decision-making.
Various techniques and tools are applied in organizing thoughts
towards making and implementing working policies. In policy-
making, long-term decisions have to be made in order to avoid
fallacies that can fail big projects. For instance, the transport
industry serves a lot of people every day. The industry needs
policies that can help in improving their services. Train and bus
services need to be time conscience by working with policies
that favor the movement schedules of most of their clients.
People living within SmartCity environments depend highly on
technology to access information and communicate. This means
planners and policy makers have to create an effective transport
network to make life manageable for city inhabitants.
Local administrations in various developed nations lack

3. enough competency to manage various areas of development in
smart cities. Coordination between national, regional and local
authorities in charge of roads and public transport using trains
is challenging. This leaves issues like traffic flow and managing
times schedules in bus and train stations difficult. E-
participation and opinion mining are among the tools that can
be used in effective policy-making to control this menace in
smart cities. Eparticpation involves civic engagement and open
government participatory in through Information
Communication Technologies. Eparticipation can potentially
improve collaboration among various levels of administration
and citizens. This policy-making tool improves access to
information and public services like transport. Additionally, it
ensures that citizens take part in the policy-making process.
Eparticipation will provide the government with the information
they need on how they can improve train and bus schedules.
Citizens will also get informed on the set schedule to avoid
waiting for long hours. Opinion mining is another tool that can
be used for effective policy formulation in the smart city
transport sector. Opinion mining is the analysis of natural
language to identify the emotions behind the boy text (Kumar
and Reddy, 2016). Opinion mining helps in getting opinions
about products and services. Authorities can use opinion mining
to categorize opinions from the public as they wait in public
transport stations. Opinion mining can also help the government
in gathering insights from online sources like emails since they
are the primary form of communication in smart cities.
References
Kumar, BS. And Reddy, DB. 2016. An Analysis on Opinion
Mining: Techniques and Tools.
Indian Journal of Research. Vol 5(8).
Public Institutions and Digital Government Department of
Economic and Social Affairs. United
Nations on E-participation.

4. Bottom of Form
Policy Making Tools
There are various tools used by policy makers in their attempt
to develop and achieve their set goals. Policy analytics tool is a
great tool that addresses various tasks such as accessing the
current or future policy problems for any environment, the tool
also is used to make an estimate of change and the responses
related to it and need to be viewed like the contributing factors
to success of any policy. Policy analytics tool can be used in
minimizing energy and passenger waiting time as it has methods
of utilizing passenger’s information and can perform an analysis
and prediction of all possible outcomes making it more relevant.
The tool can perfectly be used in making local train schedules,
with its capability to make analysis and forecast, timely
schedules can be prepared (Janssen, & Helbig, 2018).
The implementation of opinion mining tools together with other
e participation tools to collect passenger ideas and opinions and
weighing their view on a policy making is useful, using this tool
passenger will air their views and this will be used to implement
a less time taking policy and will reduce energy and waiting
time for the passengers. This tool can be used to nearly every
stage and will predict the expectation of passengers incase of
any grievances on how their services and time taken to process
their request and booking time together with the acceptance of
the technology and policy implemented (Gilliland, 2019).
References
Gilliland, M. (2019). Energy analysis: a new public policy tool.
Routledge.
Janssen, M., & Helbig, N. (2018). Innovating and changing the
policy-cycle: Policy-makers be prepared!. Government
Information Quarterly, 35(4), S99-S105.

5. ITS 832
Chapter 7
• ComparativeAnalysis ofTools and Technologies
forPolicyMaking
• Information Technology in a Global Economy
Introduction
• Policy making
• Assessment methodology
• Tools summary
• Conclusion
Policy Making
• Political visions → programs and actions
• Purpose is to change the real world
• Multidisciplinary field
• ICT offers opportunities to modernize policy making

6. • Goals
• Better understand reality
• Increase stakeholderengagement
• Respond within tighter timeframes
• Provide higherquality deliverables
Assessment Methodology
• Identification
• Initial search - targeted
• Expanded search - general
• Select and read scholarly papers
• Follow references from scholarly papers
• Categorization
• 11 logical groups
• Comparative analysis
• Conceptualization
Tools Categories
• Visualization
• Argumentation

7. • eParticipation
• Opinion mining
• Simulation
• Serious games
• Tools specifically designed for policy makers
• Persuasive
• Social network analysis (SNA)
• Big dataanalytics
• Semantics and linked data
Summary
• Examined 75 tools grouped into 11 categories
• Focus on 3 main areas of policy making
• Main activities
• Stage of the policy cycle
• Stakeholder types
• Appendix
• Links to many tools discussed in the paper
• Takeaway
• Research methods employed