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.
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.
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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.
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Meeting of the EU Public Administration Network (EUPAN)
Joint session on enhancing institutional and administrative capacity building
Rome, 16-17 October 2014
Presentation from Lubos Kuklis of ERGA (European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services).
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While the private sector has already discovered the wide set of benefits of web 2.0 technologies (McKinsey, 2009), the public sector is only beginning to use these tools. Especially the use of interactive and collaborative tools in FTA for priority setting has been rather limited until today. Examples in both a public and private sector environment suggest great potential for web 2.0 foresight in public organisations and policy-making, both in terms of advancing foresight methodologies and in terms of increasing transparency. This paper develops a framework for designing a web 2.0 foresight exercise, building on the For-Learn Foresight Cycle, experiences from other disciplines such as market research with web 2.0 research, and hands-on project experience from JRC-IPTS. It applies the framework to the design and implementation of a foresight case of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), where a web 2.0 ideation platform was used to collect ideas from research and development communities across the globe for world leading innovation that integrate education, business and research with a specific thematic focus. It is concluded that key elements in the design are clarity about process and outcome objectives, a systematic approach to tool selection, the organisation of a pilot before the launch, a clear view on sense-making from the data collected, and a certain degree of autonomy in the management of the foresight process.
Presentation at COMPACT Project event in Riga - Disinformation, Media literac...Oles Kulchytskyy
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A presentation from Urska Umek at the Council of Europe on the Online and offline threats to media pluralism. Presented at the 2018 CMPF conference, Measuring Media Pluralism in Europe - Between Old Risks and New Threats.
How transboundary learning occurs: Case Study of the ASEAN Smart Cities Netwo...Araz Taeihagh
While policy study of smart city developments is gaining traction, it falls short of understanding and explaining knowledge transfers across national borders and cities. This article investigates how transboundary learning occurs through the initiation and development of a regional smart cities network: the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN). The article conducts an in-depth case study from data collected through key informant interviews and document analysis. Spearheaded by Singapore in 2017, ASCN is seen as a soft power extension for Singapore, a branding tool for ASEAN, and a symbiotic platform between the private sector and governments in the region. Most transboundary knowledge transfers within the ASCN are voluntary transfers of policy ideas. Effective branding, demand for knowledge, availability of alternative funding options, enthusiasm from the private actors, and heightened interest from other major economies are highlighted as facilitators of knowledge transfer. However, the complexity of governance structures, lack of political will and resources, limited policy capacity, and lack of explicit operational and regulatory mechanisms hinder transboundary learning. The article concludes that transboundary learning should go beyond exchanges of ideas and recommends promoting facilitators of knowledge transfer, building local policy capacity, encouraging collaborative policy transfer, and transiting from an information-sharing platform to tool/instrument-based transfer.
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.
Capacity building via OpenCoesione, the Italian open strategy on cohesion po...carloamati
Meeting of the EU Public Administration Network (EUPAN)
Joint session on enhancing institutional and administrative capacity building
Rome, 16-17 October 2014
Presentation from Lubos Kuklis of ERGA (European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services).
Presented at the 2018 CMPF Conference "Monitoring Media Pluralism - Between Old Risks and New Threats,"
UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators - A Framework for Assessing Internet Development.
Presented by Adeline Hulin at 2018 CMPF conference, Measuring Media Pluralism in Europe - Between on Risks and New Threats
WEB 2.0 FOR FORESIGHT: EXPERIENCES ON AN INNOVATION PLATFORM IN EUROPEAN AGEN...Totti Könnölä
While the private sector has already discovered the wide set of benefits of web 2.0 technologies (McKinsey, 2009), the public sector is only beginning to use these tools. Especially the use of interactive and collaborative tools in FTA for priority setting has been rather limited until today. Examples in both a public and private sector environment suggest great potential for web 2.0 foresight in public organisations and policy-making, both in terms of advancing foresight methodologies and in terms of increasing transparency. This paper develops a framework for designing a web 2.0 foresight exercise, building on the For-Learn Foresight Cycle, experiences from other disciplines such as market research with web 2.0 research, and hands-on project experience from JRC-IPTS. It applies the framework to the design and implementation of a foresight case of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), where a web 2.0 ideation platform was used to collect ideas from research and development communities across the globe for world leading innovation that integrate education, business and research with a specific thematic focus. It is concluded that key elements in the design are clarity about process and outcome objectives, a systematic approach to tool selection, the organisation of a pilot before the launch, a clear view on sense-making from the data collected, and a certain degree of autonomy in the management of the foresight process.
Presentation at COMPACT Project event in Riga - Disinformation, Media literac...Oles Kulchytskyy
The symposium was organized by the University of Latvia Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) on the 10th of December. Latvian researchers and opinion leaders, together with European partners,
presented the latest findings in the disinformation and media literacy field as well as discussed the futur challenges that the digital media landscape presents for scientists, decision-makers as well as every media user.
A presentation from Urska Umek at the Council of Europe on the Online and offline threats to media pluralism. Presented at the 2018 CMPF conference, Measuring Media Pluralism in Europe - Between Old Risks and New Threats.
How transboundary learning occurs: Case Study of the ASEAN Smart Cities Netwo...Araz Taeihagh
While policy study of smart city developments is gaining traction, it falls short of understanding and explaining knowledge transfers across national borders and cities. This article investigates how transboundary learning occurs through the initiation and development of a regional smart cities network: the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN). The article conducts an in-depth case study from data collected through key informant interviews and document analysis. Spearheaded by Singapore in 2017, ASCN is seen as a soft power extension for Singapore, a branding tool for ASEAN, and a symbiotic platform between the private sector and governments in the region. Most transboundary knowledge transfers within the ASCN are voluntary transfers of policy ideas. Effective branding, demand for knowledge, availability of alternative funding options, enthusiasm from the private actors, and heightened interest from other major economies are highlighted as facilitators of knowledge transfer. However, the complexity of governance structures, lack of political will and resources, limited policy capacity, and lack of explicit operational and regulatory mechanisms hinder transboundary learning. The article concludes that transboundary learning should go beyond exchanges of ideas and recommends promoting facilitators of knowledge transfer, building local policy capacity, encouraging collaborative policy transfer, and transiting from an information-sharing platform to tool/instrument-based transfer.
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"
WeGov Generic presentation at the 1st Crossroad WorkshopWeGov project
WeGov participated at the 1st workshop of the Crossroad project (http://crossroad.epu.ntua.gr) entitled State of Play & Visionary Scenario Design Validation Workshop, on the 29th -30th April 2010, in Seville. The Workshop convened experts from several research areas, policy makers and practitioners in order to discuss and validate the results of the first phase of the project, namely the Analysis of the State of Play of Research in the domain of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling and the Visionary Scenarios designed to explore how governance and policy modelling could develop at the horizon 2030.
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.
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Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
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In this book, we use conservation of energy techniques on a fluid element to derive the Modified Bernoulli equation of flow with viscous or friction effects. We derive the general equation of flow/ velocity and then from this we derive the Pouiselle flow equation, the transition flow equation and the turbulent flow equation. In the situations where there are no viscous effects , the equation reduces to the Bernoulli equation. From experimental results, we are able to include other terms in the Bernoulli equation. We also look at cases where pressure gradients exist. We use the Modified Bernoulli equation to derive equations of flow rate for pipes of different cross sectional areas connected together. We also extend our techniques of energy conservation to a sphere falling in a viscous medium under the effect of gravity. We demonstrate Stokes equation of terminal velocity and turbulent flow equation. We look at a way of calculating the time taken for a body to fall in a viscous medium. We also look at the general equation of terminal velocity.
ISI 2024: Application Form (Extended), Exam Date (Out), EligibilitySciAstra
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The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
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Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
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Policy Compass at eChallenges 2014
1. Towards more factual, evidence-based, transparent and
accountable policy evaluation and analysis:
The Policy Compass approach
Dr. Sotiris Koussouris
DSSlab – NTUA
Greece
Session 4d, 29 October 2014 eChallenges e-2014 Copyright 2014 - Policy Compass
2. Problem, Motivation and Approach
The Problems
1. Internet has evolved into a rich
source for information but also to
an instrument of spreading
misinformation and propaganda
2. Lack of consensus about a
suitable metric for measuring
progress
3. Difficulty of objectively assessing
the impacts of government policies
The Proposed Approach
I. Open Public Data
II. Prosperity Indicators
III. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
IV. Argumentation Technology
V. Deliberation Platforms and
Social Media
Improve the quality and
transparency of the policy
analysis and evaluation phases
of the policy cycle for a variety
of stakeholders, ranging from
citizens to policy makers
Analysis
Policy
cycle
Implementation
/Monitoring
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3. The Policy Compass Approach
• A research prototype of an easy-to-use, highly visual and intuitive tool for:
– Constructing prosperity and other policy metrics with an easy-to-use
visual language for defining variables and functions over open data sources.
– Constructing graphs and charts visualizing metrics for selected
geographical regions and time periods.
– Annotating graphs and charts with political or policy events.
– Building causal models with an easy-to-use visual tool for Fuzzy Cognitive
Maps (FCM).
– Sharing and debating prosperity graphs and FCM across popular social
media platforms.
– Summarizing and visualizing the debates in argument maps and
conducting structured surveys about policy issues
– Aggregating opinions on policy issues, to formulate a common position in a
party or interest group.
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4. Pillar I: Prosperity Indexes
• Prosperity metrics capture the level of welfare and quality of life in a
given region or society.
• Prosperity is a vague and subjective concept with essential
psychological, social and economic aspects.
• There is no consensus about how to objectively measure prosperity
• Indicators of economic growth:
– Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
– Genuine Progress Index (GPI)
– Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
– GINI Index
• Alternatives:
– Human Development Index (HDI)
– Legatum Prosperity Index
– “Healthy life years statistics” by Eurostat
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5. Pillar II: Open Public Data
• Open and unrestricted access to large scale data sets is essential for
political engagement and scientific research
• Available large scale data sets have nowadays their own self-contained
existence rules.
• Micro-data can be used to construct new indicators of multifaceted
nature.
• Sources of micro-data:
– Eurobarometer surveys
– European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) by
Eurostat
– Urban Audit (the European cities Eurostat)
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6. Pillar III: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
• A well-founded, general-purpose and intuitive method for modelling and
simulating relationships between variables.
• Introduced by B. Kosko (1986) as a fuzzified version of Cognitive Maps,
originally introduced by political scientist R. Axelrod (1976).
• A fuzzy directed graph of nodes and edges, where nodes represent fuzzy
concepts, describing behavioral characteristics of a system that occur to some
degree, and directed edges represent the causal relationships among these
concepts.
• The graph edges are weighted by a real
value from the interval [-1, 1], which
expresses the strength of the relation
between two concepts.
• FCMs have been widely used to model
and simulate policies and their effects.
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7. Pillar IV: Argumentation Technology
• Argumentation support systems are computer software for helping people
participate in various kinds of goal-directed dialogues in which arguments are
exchanged.
• The idea of using argumentation support systems for eParticipation can be
traced back at least to Horst Rittel’s pioneering work in the early 1970s who
used visual maps of arguments, to help people collaborate and find solutions to
what he called “wicked problems”.
• “Wicked problems” have no algorithmic, scientific or objectively optimal
solutions for a variety of reasons, including the lack of consensus among
stakeholders about utilities and values.
• Typically, eParticipation projects make use of generic groupware systems (e.g.
discussion fora, online surveys, etc.) not providing though specific technical
support for argumentation.
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8. Pillar V: Deliberation Platforms and Social
Media
• Deliberation platforms incarnate the efforts taken by government
agencies, to increase citizens’ engagement in their decision and policy
making processes.
• The first wave of deliberation platforms has witnessed extensive
information on government activities, decisions, plans and policies, the
proliferation of e-voting and e-consultation spaces, along with various
types of e-fora.
• Still, the first generation of deliberation platforms did not meet the
original expectations.
• The advent of Web 2.0 tools has created a more vivid environment and
the popularity of the social media has set a new battlefield for the
concept of e-Participation.
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9. Policy Compass Pillars’ Relations
Pillar I:
Prosperity
Indexes
Pillar II: Open
Public Data
Pillar III: Fuzzy
Cognitive Maps
Pillar IV:
Argumentation
Pillar V:
Deliberation
Platforms &
Social Media
Pillar I:
Prosperity
Indexes
Pillar II: Open
Public Data
Pillar III: Fuzzy
Cognitive Maps
Pillar IV:
Argumentation
Pillar V:
Deliberation
Platforms &
Social Media
Define higher
level metrics
from lower level
Define higher
level metrics
from lower level
ones
ones
Construct
metrics by
operationalizing
open data
sources
Use historical
events to
annotate metric
visualizations
Access open data
Access open data
sources,
sources,
Publish data sets
& their metadata
Publish data sets
& their metadata
Develop ideas on
the correlations
among policies and
prosperity
fluctuations
Simulate causal
policy models
based on open
data sets
Debate on
prosperity
metrics
Reuse
argumentation
outcomes as
structured open
data
Share own
developed
prosperity
metrics
Predict the
evolution of
prosperity
indicators by
applying causal
policy models
Use historical
data to validate
causal policy
models
Weigh prosperity
aspects
according to the
opinions
expressed
Use open public
data to bolster
one’s opinion
Develop and
apply own causal
policy models
Develop and
apply own causal
policy models
Define the
strength of
correlations
according to the
opinions
expressed
Debate on
causal models
underlying
policies
Summarize and
visualize debates
in argument
Summarize and
visualize debates
in argument
maps
maps
Share own
developed causal
policy models
Poll public
opinion on policy
issues
Define prosperity
metrics
collectively
Define policy
impact models
collectively
Aggregate poll
outcomes to
formulate a
common position
Ensure citizens’
Ensure citizens’
wide
wide
participation
participation
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10. Use Case Walkthrough
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11. Discussion and Conclusions
• A framework for empowering citizens and policy makers to better
assess government policies.
• Benefits of the approach:
Decision makers:
• Visualize the effects of their politics
• Stimulate public debate
• Communicate policy outcomes to
citizens clearer
• Build confidence in progress
towards societal goals
Citizens:
• Engage in the development of
prosperity indices
• Monitor and critically discuss the
quality of public policies
• Learn about the multiple
dimensions and social and
economic consequences of policies
• Improve the objectivity and
evidential basis of their arguments
• Assessment and validation in real case pilots (UK and Russia).
• Are user-generated metrics trustworthy?
• How is prosperity measured?
• Can prosperity be measured in the same way for all?
• …..?
Session 4d, 29 October 2014 eChallenges e-2014 Copyright 2014 - Policy Compass
12. Thank you
Dr. Sotiris Koussouris
skous@me.com
DSSLab - NTUA
Policy Compass received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration
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