This is a presentation of research done within the EU Community project and its evaluation, combining reputation management and sentiment analysis techniques for policy modelling
Open Government Data Ecosystems: Linking Transparency for Innovation with Tra...Luigi Reggi
Presentation at IFIP EGOV 2016 Conference. September 5, 2016.
Abstract. The rhetoric of open government data (OGD) promises that data transparency will lead to multiple public benefits: economic and social innovation, civic participation, public-private collaboration, and public accountability. In reality much less has been accomplished in practice than advocates have hoped. OGD research to address this gap tends to fall into two streams – one that focuses on data publication and re-use for purposes of innovation, and one that views publication as a stimulus for civic participation and government accountability - with little attention to whether or how these two views interact. In this paper we use an ecosystem perspective to explore this question. Through an exploratory case study we show how two related cycles of influences can flow from open data publication. The first addresses transparency for innovation goals, the second addresses larger issues of data use for public engagement and greater government accountability. Together they help explain the potential and also the barriers to reaching both kinds of goals.
Policy Compass presented a scientific paper titled “Towards more factual, evidence-based, transparent and accountable policy evaluation and analysis: The Policy Compass approach“ in the context of the eChallenges 2014 conference.
Open Government Data Ecosystems: Linking Transparency for Innovation with Tra...Luigi Reggi
Presentation at IFIP EGOV 2016 Conference. September 5, 2016.
Abstract. The rhetoric of open government data (OGD) promises that data transparency will lead to multiple public benefits: economic and social innovation, civic participation, public-private collaboration, and public accountability. In reality much less has been accomplished in practice than advocates have hoped. OGD research to address this gap tends to fall into two streams – one that focuses on data publication and re-use for purposes of innovation, and one that views publication as a stimulus for civic participation and government accountability - with little attention to whether or how these two views interact. In this paper we use an ecosystem perspective to explore this question. Through an exploratory case study we show how two related cycles of influences can flow from open data publication. The first addresses transparency for innovation goals, the second addresses larger issues of data use for public engagement and greater government accountability. Together they help explain the potential and also the barriers to reaching both kinds of goals.
Policy Compass presented a scientific paper titled “Towards more factual, evidence-based, transparent and accountable policy evaluation and analysis: The Policy Compass approach“ in the context of the eChallenges 2014 conference.
WeGov was presented at the Samos 2010 Summit, “Declaration On the Future of ICT for Governance” in Samos, Greece, on the 8th July 2010. The presentation took place in Session V of the Summit. Session V focused on the subject "ICT Research meets practice". The session underlined the adoption of the research prototypes and ideas, as well as on the application of various innovative solutions in the Public Sector and the Local Administrations, with a view to achieve efficient services provision which will meet the administration needs with overall aim, to better serve the citizens.
E-Government as a New Studying Subject. Towards a Theoretical Integration Proposal. By Juan Ignacio Criado Grande, Mentxu Ramilo Araujo and Miquel Salvador i Serna
Smart Cities - Measuring levels of supply and demand for e-services and e-gov...Smart Cities Project
Most cities offer some kind of e-government services, from a simple e-mail form to the most sophisticated applications. Often this offer is mainly content- and technology driven, and not based on the needs and expectations of the different target groups. In order to develop a well balanced e-government vision and operation, it has to be more than a (re)organisation of technological platforms. It has to be founded on the relationship between a government and its different target groups: citizens, companies, associations.
The best way to map out this relationship is a well balanced survey that looks at the digital services and information from both a demand perspective (citizen, local companies and associations) and a supplier’s perspective (municipality and city services).
ODDC Context - An Investigation of the use of the Online National Budget of N...Open Data Research Network
Presentation in the first workshop of the Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries project. Looking at the context of open data, and the research case study planned for 2013 - 2014. See http://www.opendataresearch.org/project/2013/unilorin
WeGov was presented at the Samos 2010 Summit, “Declaration On the Future of ICT for Governance” in Samos, Greece, on the 8th July 2010. The presentation took place in Session V of the Summit. Session V focused on the subject "ICT Research meets practice". The session underlined the adoption of the research prototypes and ideas, as well as on the application of various innovative solutions in the Public Sector and the Local Administrations, with a view to achieve efficient services provision which will meet the administration needs with overall aim, to better serve the citizens.
E-Government as a New Studying Subject. Towards a Theoretical Integration Proposal. By Juan Ignacio Criado Grande, Mentxu Ramilo Araujo and Miquel Salvador i Serna
Smart Cities - Measuring levels of supply and demand for e-services and e-gov...Smart Cities Project
Most cities offer some kind of e-government services, from a simple e-mail form to the most sophisticated applications. Often this offer is mainly content- and technology driven, and not based on the needs and expectations of the different target groups. In order to develop a well balanced e-government vision and operation, it has to be more than a (re)organisation of technological platforms. It has to be founded on the relationship between a government and its different target groups: citizens, companies, associations.
The best way to map out this relationship is a well balanced survey that looks at the digital services and information from both a demand perspective (citizen, local companies and associations) and a supplier’s perspective (municipality and city services).
ODDC Context - An Investigation of the use of the Online National Budget of N...Open Data Research Network
Presentation in the first workshop of the Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries project. Looking at the context of open data, and the research case study planned for 2013 - 2014. See http://www.opendataresearch.org/project/2013/unilorin
Smart Cities - Η τρέχουσα κατάσταση στους Δήμους της Ελλάδας Yannis Charalabidis
Ερευνα στους Δήμους της Ελλάδας για την τρέχουσα κατάσταση και τον σχεδιασμό δράσεων Smart City / έξυπνων πόλεων, από το Κέντρο Έρευνας για την Ηλεκτρονική Διακυβέρνηση του Παν. Αιγαίου, όπως παρουσιάστηκε στην ημερίδα της ΚΕΔΕ, Κεφαλλονιά, Ιούλιος 2016
Data ecosystems: turning data into public valueSlim Turki, Dr.
Africa Information Highway Live Exchange #Session 7
8 October 2021
The AIH Live Exchange between the Africa Information Highway Team, partners and countries is a free monthly webinar hosted by the African Development Bank to discuss topics related to government data and statistics. This webinar series is the main platform for countries to share their experiences and best practices around open data including using their Open Data Platform of the AIH.
This session is co-organized with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) which is a mission-driven Research and Technology Organization (RTO) that develops advanced technologies and delivers innovative products and services to industry and society. These innovations can also be used to solve several societal challenges, particularly in the areas of the environment, security, education and culture, sustainable development, as well as the efficient use of resources.
Official statistical data are recognized as high-value datasets for the society and economy, to enrich research, inform decision making or develop new products and services. The use of these authoritative data sources contributes to building a society with more empowered people, better policies, more effective and accountable decision-making, greater participation and stronger democratic mechanisms.
Official statistics are produced to be used and re-used to make an impact on society through a higher degree of openness and transparency while ensuring confidentiality and, at the same time, providing equal access to information to citizens.
The value of data lies in its use and re-use. In this interactive webinar, you will learn new techniques to improve the use and re-use of your statistical data, going beyond the provision logic and adopting the ecosystem mindset. You will:
● Sharpen your capacity at identifying and engaging users and re-users and stakeholders (data ecosystem mapping)?
● Effectively tackle technical and organizational barriers to stimulate data use and re-use?
● Smartly orchestrate a self-sustainable data ecosystem to increase the impact of statistical data.
This session is an opportunity for Regional members countries to '' Sharpen their skills in making data used and re-used by developing an ecosystem mindset to effectively build sustainable community of users around their Open Data Platform thus promoting transparency and better decision-making”
Call for papers - ICPP6 T07P01 - EXPLORING TECHNOLOGIES FOR POLICY ADVICE.docxAraz Taeihagh
CALL FOR PAPERS
T07P01 - EXPLORING TECHNOLOGIES FOR POLICY ADVICE
https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/panel-list/17/panel/exploring-technologies-for-policy-advice/1295
Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2023
GENERAL OBJECTIVES, RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND SCIENTIFIC RELEVANCE
Knowledge and expertise are key components of policy-making and policy design, and many institutions and processes exist – universities, professional policy analysts, think tanks, policy labs, etc. – to generate and mobilize knowledge for effective policies and policy-making. Despite many years of research, however. many critical ssues remain unexplored, including the nature of knowledge and non-knowledge, how policy advice is organized into advisory systems or regimes, and when and how specific types of knowledge or evidence are transmitted and influence policy development and implementation. These long-standing issues have been joined recently by use of Artificial Intelligence and Big data, and other kinds of technological developments – such as crowdsourcing through open collaboration platforms, virtual labour markets, and tournaments – which hold out the promise of automating, enhancing. or expanding policy advisory activities in government. This panel seeks to explore all aspects of the application of current and future technologies to policy advice, including case studies of its deployment as well as theoretical and conceptual studies dealing with moral, epistemological and other issues surrounding its use.
Presentation of the Sense4us project at the 2nd European TA Conference - Berlin, 26 February 2015
"Policy Making in a Complex World:
The Opportunities and Risks Presented
by New Technologies"
Turning FAIR into Reality: Briefing on the EC’s report on FAIR datadri_ireland
DRI Director Natalie Harrower, a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) data, delivered a lunchtime briefing on the recently published 'Turning FAIR into Reality' report on Tuesday 26 February in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
In 2016 the FAIR Data Principles were developed to support the position that effective research data management is ‘not a goal in itself but rather is the key conduit leading to knowledge discovery and innovation’. The new publication is both a report and an action plan for turning FAIR into reality. It offers a survey and analysis of what is needed to implement FAIR and it provides a set of concrete recommendations and actions for stakeholders in Europe and beyond.
The briefing provided an overview of the contents of the report, which include the principles of FAIR, as well as the elements required to implement FAIR data.
OpenCoesione Promoting transparency and civic monitoring on Cohesion PolicyLuigi Reggi
OpenCoesione
Promoting transparency and civic monitoring on Cohesion Policy
Carlo Amati, Simona De Luca, Aline Pennisi, Luigi Reggi
Center for Technology in Government State University of New York at Albany 23rd September 2014
BDVe Webinar Series - Big Data for Public Policy, the state of play - Roadmap...Big Data Value Association
Do you know how data-driven approaches can influence the policy cycle and the benefits derived from this? Have you ever participated in a policy-lab, collaborating with other stakeholders to develop and test a policy? In this session, Anne Fleur van Veenstra from TNO will delve into current practices, insights and lessons learnt from current policy-lab projects, followed by Francesco Mureddu, from the Lisbon Council, who will look ahead and identify the main challenges and opportunities by presenting and discussing a roadmap for Future Research Directions in data-driven Policy Making.
THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYMPOSIUM MoreenMbogo
THEME: New Developments and Challenges in Monitoring and Evaluation.
Capacity Africa will host its 3rd International Monitoring and Evaluation Symposium from the 14th to 16th November 2018 at the Hilton Hotel Nairobi-Kenya. The three day symposium will bring together M&E practitioners from public, private, academic and development spheres to highlight developments, challenges, contributions, best practices and lessons learnt in use of M&E Data for program design and implementation. The use of M&E can play a significant role in strengthening national programs, reduce costs and provide information and evidence for policy and decision making by leveraging key decision makers to improve the availability and use of information.
The Symposium is the 3rd since its inception. Capacity Africa has had successful symposiums since 2015 hosting hundreds of delegates and key speakers to discuss processes, practices and milestones achieved within the broad theme in Monitoring and Evaluation.
The 3rd M&E Symposium aims at strengthening the capacity of individual organizations to improve data quality,and to use high-quality data for efficient, evidence-based decision making. The theme of the symposium is "New developments and challenges in Monitoring and Evaluation" The Symposium comes in time when the world has made significant strides in Monitoring and Evaluation within organizations. The Symposium intends to stimulate such discussions.
A CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Capacity Africa invites all M&E practitioners from the public, private, academic and developents to submit papers, round table discussion topics, posters and abstracts representing M&E systems, processes and practices within the broad theme of the symposium.
We invite submission of proposals for the symposium workshops on contemporary M&E paradigms, methods and tools.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
350 USD (Ksh. 35,000) per person
Presentation outlining the UnBias project, an EPSRC funded project about transparency of biases in algorithm behaviour, often due to unavoidable implicit choices that had to be made.
This presentation was given at the DASTS16 conference in Aarhus Denmark on June 3rd 2016.
THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYMPOSIUMMoreenMbogo
THEME: New Developments and Challenges in Monitoring and Evaluation.
Capacity Africa will host its 3rd International Monitoring and Evaluation Symposium from the 4th to 6th December 2018 at the Hilton Hotel Nairobi-Kenya. The three day symposium will bring together M&E practitioners from public, private, academic and development spheres to highlight developments, challenges, contributions, best practices and lessons learnt in use of M&E Data for program design and implementation. The use of M&E can play a significant role in strengthening national programs, reduce costs and provide information and evidence for policy and decision making by leveraging key decision makers to improve the availability and use of information.
The Symposium is the 3rd since its inception. Capacity Africa has had successful symposiums since 2015 hosting hundreds of delegates and key speakers to discuss processes, practices and milestones achieved within the broad theme in Monitoring and Evaluation.
The 3rd M&E Symposium aims at strengthening the capacity of individual organizations to improve data quality,and to use high-quality data for efficient, evidence-based decision making. The theme of the symposium is "New developments and challenges in Monitoring and Evaluation" The Symposium comes in time when the world has made significant strides in Monitoring and Evaluation within organizations. The Symposium intends to stimulate such discussions.
A CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Capacity Africa invites all M&E practitioners from the public, private, academic and developents to submit papers, round table discussion topics, posters and abstracts representing M&E systems, processes and practices within the broad theme of the symposium.
We invite submission of proposals for the symposium workshops on contemporary M&E paradigms, methods and tools.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
350 USD (Ksh. 35,000) per person
Trigger.eu: Cocteau game for policy making - introduction and demoMarco Brambilla
COCTEAU stands for "Co-Creating the European Union".
It's a project supported by the European Union whose objective is to involve citizens to cooperate alongside policy makers, contributing to build a better future.
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This is a lecture I gave in Thapar University in Patiala, India on Entrepreneuship. I try to demistify the terms of scalability, explain why you can become extremely rich by running a business on intangible products and services. Also I try to dive into understanding hw to develop new ideas for startups. Enjoy !
Συνοπτική παρουσίαση της μελέτης των διαδικτυακών τόπων των δήμων της Ελλάδας, που υλοποιήθηκε το 2022 και παρουσιάστηκε στο Regional Growth Conference, στην Πάτρα, στις 9 Ιουνίου 2022.
H μελέτη περιλαμβάνει την αποτύπωση της κατάστασης (τέλη 2021) στις δράσεις έξυπνων πόλεων και σχετικών υποδομών ψηφιακής διακυβέρνησης στους δήμους της Ελλάδας.
After analysing the key AI technologies that can be applied in the public sector, the course gives an overview of potential applications (e.g. chatbots, intelligent agents, decision making algorithms, machine learning systems, etc) in various European countries and sectors of the economy. Furthermore, the aims, the benefits and the possible challenges and risks of such applications are being presented, together with the means for risk mitigation. The course also presents the main initiatives for promoting , monitoring and regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector, in Europe and the world.
The Generations of Digital governance : From Paper to RobotsYannis Charalabidis
Digital or Electronic Governance relates to the utilisation of Information and Communication Technologies for achieving better digital services to citizens, enhance transparency and collaboration, and promote evidence-based decision making in the public sector. Along these directions, the talk presents the methods, the tools and the solutions that structure the main generations of Digital Governance. Starting from the introduction of computers in the public sector and reaching the emerging applications of artificial intelligence and other exponential technologies, the talk covers the benefits and the challenges for decision makers, from a technical and administrative viewpoint.
Boosting higher education innovation and entrepreneurship in the areas of Digital Transformation, Circular Economy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
Digital government Challanges for Greece (slides in Greek)Yannis Charalabidis
Από την παρουσίασή μου στη διαδικτακή εκδήλωση της KPMG για την Ψηφιακή Διακυβέρνηση. Πως τα κινητά, το πλαίσιο διαλειτουργικοτητας και τεχνητή νοημοσύνη μπορούν να βοηθήσουν την Ελλάδα να μη χάσει πάλι το τρένο ...
This is my presentation on the Workshop on Digital Governance Science Base at the ICEGOV 2020 Conference. It includes the proposals for the structure, the neighboring domains, the assessment frameworks and problem space systemetisation,
Ψηφιακός Μετασχηματισμός και Διακυβέρνηση: Διεθνείς Πολιτικές και Νέες Τεχνολ...Yannis Charalabidis
Ψηφιακός Μετασχηματισμός και Διακυβέρνηση: Διεθνείς Πολιτικές και Νέες Τεχνολογίες
(ή τι μπορούν οι επιχειρήσεις να μάθουν από τα Κράτη)
Ομιλία στο KPMG CFO Forum
The presentation at MCIS Corfu (look for the title in AIS library, for the full paper). "EU-Wide Legal Text Mining using Big Data Processsing Infrastructures"
To Κέντρο Έρευνας για την Ηλεκτρονική Διακυβέρνηση (ΚΕΗΔ) είναι ένας φορέας μελέτης, εκπαίδευσης, σχεδιασμού και υποστήριξης της εφαρμογής σύγχρονων προσεγγίσεων και μεθοδολογιών για τη διακυβέρνηση, σε τοπικό, εθνικό και διεθνές επίπεδο. Το κέντρο, μέσα από την συνεχή συγκέντρωση της διεθνούς αλλά και της ελληνικής εμπειρίας πάνω σε κρίσιμες εφαρμογές και υπηρεσίες προς τους πολίτες και τις επιχειρήσεις στοχεύει αφενός στην όσο το δυνατόν πιο άμεση και ολοκληρωμένη διάδοση των κανόνων και μεθόδων που προσφέρει η Ηλεκτρονική Διακυβέρνηση και αφετέρου στην ευέλικτη εφαρμογή του πλήθους των δυνατοτήτων της στις εκάστοτε ανάγκες της Δημόσιας Διοίκησης.
Το ΚΕΗΔ αποτελεί πρωτοβουλία πανεπιστημιακών εργαστηρίων και ερευνητικών κέντρων, φορέων της Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, επιχειρήσεων και οργανισμών πολιτών, υπό το συντονισμό του Εργαστηρίου Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων του Τμήματος Μηχανικών Πληροφοριακών και Επικοινωνιακών Συστημάτων του Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου. Στην επιστημονική επιτροπή διοίκησης του ΚΕΗΔ συμμετέχουν καθηγητές ΑΕΙ, ερευνητές και στελέχη από Ελληνικά Πανεπιστήμια, Ερευνητικά Κέντρα και Φορείς με αποδεδειγμένη εθνική και διεθνή εμπειρία και εξειδίκευση στο πεδίο της Ηλεκτρονικής Διακυβέρνησης. Το ΚΕΗΔ προφέρει στην Ελληνική κοινωνία και αγορά πρόσβαση σε περισσότερα από 100 εξειδικευμένα στελέχη – ερευνητές από Ελλάδα και εξωτερικό, ικανά να συμβάλλουν στην ανάλυση, στο σχεδιασμό, στην υλοποίηση και στην διάδοση καινοτομικών λύσεων Ηλεκτρονικής Διακυβέρνησης με υψηλή προστιθέμενη αξία για τον Ελληνικό Δημόσιο Τομέα, την επιχειρηματική κοινότητα και την κοινωνία.
Στόχοι και δράσεις για καλύτερη διακυβέρνηση, με αξιοποίηση της πληροφορικής, με βάση τη διεθνή εμπειρία. Απο το Κένυρο Έρευνας για την Ηλεκτρονική Διακυβέρνηση (www.dgrc.gr)
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
Donate Us
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
PNRR MADRID GREENTECH FOR BROWN NETWORKS NETWORKS MUR_MUSA_TEBALDI.pdf
Passive expert - sourcing, for policy making in the EU
1. Aggeliki Androutsopoulou, Francesco Mureddu,
Euripidis Loukis, Yannis Charalabidis
PASSIVE EXPERT-SOURCING FOR POLICY
MAKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
15th IFIP Electronic Government (EGOV) and
8th Electronic Participation (ePart) Conference 2016
5th - 8th September 2016 Guimarães, Portugal
2. Introduction
• Crowd-sourcing: a web-based business model that harnesses
the creative solutions of a distributed network of individuals’, in
order to exploit ‘collective wisdom’ and mine fresh ideas from
large numbers of individuals (Brabham, 2012)
• Citizen-sourcing: Application of the crowdsourcing ideas by
the public sector, the politicians and the citizens, during a policy
making process
• Further research required on public sector citizen-sourcing, to
develop a considerable knowledge base, comparable to private
sector crowd-sourcing
3. Introduction
• Citizen-sourcing initiatives provide valuable insights into the
perceptions of the general public, concerning important social
problems and government activities for addressing them
• Targeting to more knowledgeable communities having strong
interest and good expertise on the particular topic/policy under
discussion to collect information and knowledge of higher
quality
4. Public Sector Citizen-Sourcing
• Active citizen-sourcing: use of government agencies’
web-sites or social media accounts, in order to pose a
particular social problem or public policy direction, and
solicit relevant information, knowledge, opinions and
ideas from citizens.
• Challenge.gov initiative, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
• The PADGETS project, EU
• Passive citizen-sourcing: exploit political content that
has been developed by citizens freely, without any direct
stimulation or direction by government, in various external
web-sites or social media
• The NOMAD project, EU
5. Democracy vs Technocracy in Public Policy Making
• Increased complexity of social problems leads to the
establishment of expert bodies to support policy formulation
• Two fundamental bases of public policy making:
• Democracy - political consultation with stakeholder groups (diverse
values and concerns, perspectives and ideologies )
• Technocracy - knowledge of experts
• Necessity of combined and balanced input and knowledge
exchange between the two, which, luckily, can be supported
by ICT
6. Research Objectives
• ICT-based method for ‘passive expert-sourcing’, which allows the
collection of high quality policy relevant information, knowledge and
ideas from knowledgeable experts with the in order to support policy
making by the EU by leveraging its large policy community, based on:
• EU policy experts’ profiling and reputation management,
• relevant documents’ opinion mining and relevance rating,
• Several means of visualisation
• Theoretical foundation:
• relationships between democracy and technocracy
• policy networks in public policy making
7. Policy Networks
• Sets of formal and informal institutional linkages between
governmental actors and non-government actors associations,
professions, labor unions and interest groups) around shared
interests in public policy-making
• Non-state actors provide to state actors information,
knowledge, expertise and support for the formulation and
implementation of public policies. In return they have the
opportunity to influence the public policies
• ICT increases density of policy networks interactions and
supports the exchange of diverse expertise and knowledge
among participants
8. Design and Evaluation Methodology
13 workshops (EurActiv)
• EU policy stakeholders
and thematic experts
• Understanding the EU
policy community
structure
• Requirements
Elicitation
Evaluation Session
• Usage scenarios
execution
• Questionnaires on the
evaluation framework
• Qualitative discussion
on questions
9. Passive Expert-sourcing Method
• Automatic retrieval of information
from various sources concerning
policy experts and content generated
by them
• Opinion mining and sentiment
classification of content to identify
subjectivity, opinions and their
polarity, relevance to a policy topic
• Digital Reputation Management to
asses the credibility of experts
• Modelling of policy processes (EU
legislative procedures or complex
political debates)
• Interconnection and structured
visual presentation of all relevant
information
10. ICT Platform - EurActory
• Maintains a directory of profiles of people
having an active role in EU policy making
• Crawls at regular time intervals external
sources and SM and stores information in
CurActory DB
• Provides ranking of expert profiles per topic
through Reputation Management
• Provides capabilities of searching, filtering,
curation and activation of user profile
11. Digital Reputation Criteria
1. Self-evaluation: direct input from the user on his/her own area of
expertise.
2. Peer-assessment: based on endorsements from other users made
through EurActory
3. Business Card Reputation: based on the reputation ranking of the
organization and the user’s position in the organization’s hierarchy
4. Document Assessment: results of authored documents’
assessment by their readers
5. Network Value: level of influence as the sum of network
connections
6. Proximity trust: level of connection in social media
7. Past Measurements: taking into account reputation in previous
months (its stability means credibility).
8. Offline Reputation: manually added for persons with no online
presence
12. ICT Platform - PolicyLine
• Timeline visualisation of main
documents (based on
relevance and author’s
reputation) per policy process
• Clusters documents under user
defined stages of the policy
process
• Classifies documents per
authorship (sub)categories
• Provides sentiment
classification results and users’
feedback per document
• Provides statistical Information
for each policy process
14. Evaluation Results – EurActory
Ease of Use
EurActory can be easily used without assistance
Creating a profile is easy
It is easy to access topic listings
It is easy to rate peers
Using EurActory has been a positive experience
3.46
4.08
4.15
3.75
4.08
Usefulness
EurActory puts together information not found or collected under one roof elsewhere
EurActory allows me to be more productive
EurActory improves the quality of my work
EurActory assists me in identifying relevant experts
EurActory provides me with all the needed information on relevant experts
EurActory enables me to reinforce my expert positioning
3.15
3.38
3.46
3.85
3.54
3.54
Intention to Use
I expect to use EurActory on a regular basis in the future
I will advise colleagues to use EurActory
3.85
3.62
15. Evaluation Results – PolicyLine
Ease of Use
PolicyLine can be easily used without assistance
I can easily create a ‘policy process’
I can easily add a document in the ‘policy process’
I can easily rate/comment a document
I can easily get an overview of the process
Using PolicyLine has been a positive experience
3.64
3.69
3.79
3.5
3.73
3.71
Usefulness
PolicyLine puts together information not found or collected under one roof elsewhere
PolicyLine allows me to be more productive
PolicyLine improves the quality of my work
3.29
3.29
3.43
Intention to Use
I expect to use EurActory on a regular basis in the future
I will advise colleagues to use EurActory
4.14
3.71
16. Conclusions
• Passive expert-sourcing, combined with automated reputation
management and opinion mining can assist the public debate and
policy making.
• Two tools were developed: Euractory and PolicyLine, for finding high
quality information and opinions on important policy-related topics and
policy formulation processes in European Commission and European
Parliament
• The users (politicians, experts, citizens) had an initial positive
response towards the provided tools, in many different occasions.
• Promotes the debate and communication among EU policy
stakeholders, allowing expression of opinions and criticism on EU
policy initiatives
• Future improvements on the ICT platform concerning the graphical
interface and timeline visualisation are now being
17. Further Research
• Further evaluation on realistic pilot applications
• to what extent it enables and supports the transfer of information, knowledge and
proposals from experts to the participants in the democratic processes of modern
policy making, and under what conditions?
• to what extent it can enable and support the exchange of information, knowledge
and proposals among the participants in public policy networks, and under what
conditions ?
• to what extent can this method can assist the EU institutions to collect high quality
information, knowledge, opinions and proposals from their policy networks
• Further research concerning the reverse transfer of knowledge, from
the democratic process to experts, towards more multi-dimensional
comprehensive experts’ analysis and plans on social problems and
public policies
18. The research presented in this paper has been conducted as part of
the European research project ‘EU-Community’, partially funded
by the ‘ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling’ research
programme of the EU
http://project.eucommunity.eu/
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