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project is elaborating an updated version of the “International
Research Roadmap on ICT tools for Governance and Policy
Modelling”, initially designed as part of the CROSSROAD's
project in 2010.
As for the partial results of our exercise, on the one hand we
designed the research challenges in relation to specific needs of
the policy makers. For instance: systems of atomized models and
model validation are related to early detection and understanding
of problems; collaborative modelling and visual analytics are
related to generating high involvement of citizens; immersive
simulation is related to reducing the uncertainty on the possible
impacts of policies; opinion mining is related to the need of
identify “good ideas” and innovative solutions; and finally open
data is related to the need of detecting non-compliance and misspending,
as well as to understanding the impact of policies.
On the other hand we were able to connect the research challenges
to specific phases of the policy cycle:
o Agenda setting: in this phase take place the identification and
analysis of problem. Within this scope, visualization and
opinion mining can help to identify the problems at an early
stage, while advanced modelling techniques are used to
disentangle the casual relationships behind the problem as
well as to understand the causal roots that need to be
addressed by policy
o Policy design: on one side immersive simulations support
decision-makers by taking into account unexpected impacts
and relationships, in order to facilitate the choice of the most
effective option. On the other side collaborative governance
enables then to develop further and fine-tune the most
effective option, for example through commentable
documents
o Policy implementation: social network analysis,
crowdsourcing and serious gaming ensure awareness, buy-in
and collaboration from the widest range of stakeholders
o Monitoring and evaluation: Open data and sentiment
analysis, alongside advanced visualization techniques, allow
stakeholders and decision makers to better monitor execution
and can be used to evaluate the impact of the policy
As for future research, the roadmap is being published and
disseminated in commentable format in order to seek input and
validation from stakeholders (on the importance of the proposed
research challenges), researchers (on the actual research carried
out on the proposed challenges), and finally policy makers (on the
actual adoption of the proposed tools). Furthermore it is ongoing
an online survey of ICT needs and challenges of policy makers
which will inform the last version of the roadmap.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND DISCLAIMER
The research activity leading to this paper has been funded by the
European Commission under the activity ICT-7-5.6 – “ICT
Solutions for governance and policy modeling” within the
Coordination and Support Action (FP7-ICT-2011-7, No. 288828)
CROSSOVER project “Bridging Communities for Next
Generation Policy-Making”.
The views expressed in this paper are purely those of the authors
and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an
official position of the European Commission.
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