policy compass project presentation
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PROJECT PRESENTATION
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Project Overview
Policy CompassPolicy Compasshttp://policycompass.eu/
•STREP Project, co-funded by the European Union under the “ICT for Governance and Policy Making” theme (ICT-2013.5.4, Grant Agreement No: 612133)
•Project start: 1 October 2013•Duration: 36 months•Project Coordinator: Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)•Consortium: 7 organizations from 5 different countries
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Policy Compass Consortium
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The Problem
• Difficulty of objectively assessing the impact of government policies
• Poor use of available open data resources on the internet
• Lack of consensus about a suitable metric for measuring progress
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)• Human Development Index (HDI)• Genuine Progress Index (GPI)
The Opportunity
Context
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easy-to-use tools for both the lay public and professional policy makers to improve the quality and transparency of the policy analysis and monitoring phases of the policy life-cycle.
open public data open public data
socialsocial
mediamedia
fuzzy fuzzy
cognitive cognitive
maps maps
e-participatione-participation platformsplatforms & & argumentation technologyargumentation technology
Contribution & Objectives
• More factual, evidence-based, transparent and accountable policy analysis and impact evaluation.
• Exploitation of Europe’s vast amount of open public data.
• Integration with eParticipation platforms, social networks and argumentation technology.
• Design and implementation of prosperity indices using open data sources.
• Development and evaluation of causal models or theories using FCMs.
• Evaluation of the approach on the basis of two trials, organized in UK (Cambridgeshire) and Russia (St. Petersburg).
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The Policy Compass Promise
• 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• Constructing 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
using delegated voting via the Adhocracy platform.
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• The Policy Compass will be realized as an online Web platform integrating the tools developed in the project.
• The platform will provide an open API for integrating its datastore and services into external platforms, and widgets for integrating its user interfaces into selected eParticipation platforms and social networks.
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Technical Approach
Strategy & Workplan
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WP1: Requirements, Methods and Tools
- Study of State of the art- Policy Compass Methodology & User Requirements
- Prosperity Metrics and Open Data Sources
WP2: Design- Policy Compass Architecture
- Tools and Services Specifications
WP3: Implementation- Development, Integration and Testing of the
Policy Compass Platform
WP4: Evaluation-Community Building
-Trials Preparation, Execution and Evaluation
WP6: Exploitation- Market Analysis
- Exploitation Scenarios Definition
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Expected Impact (1/2)
• Simplify the way to utilize, interact, mash-up, visualize and interpret the increasing amount of international open economic data and wealth indicators.
• Improve the analysis and evaluation of policies• Broaden the use of open data by citizens to support and improve
policy making.• Raise and objectify the European public discourse on how
• to measure growth in the economy and society• to develop holistic prosperity and progress indices
• Facilitate more objective, evidence-based and transparent policy deliberations.
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Expected Impact (2/2)
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• Visualize the effects of their politics• Communicate policy outcomes to citizens clearer• Stimulate public debate• Build confidence in progress towards societal goals• Create their own prosperity /community development indices
• Monitor and control the indicator modeling process• Leverage open statistical data• Monitor and critically discuss the quality of public policies• Explore the effects and costs of policies
• Engage in the development of prosperity indices• Participate in on-line debates• Improve the objectivity and evidential basis of their
arguments• Learn about the social and economic consequences of
policies
Decision Makers
Civil Society
Citizens and especially
the Younger Generation
www.PolicyCompass.eu
www.twitter.com/PolicyCompassEU
www.facebook.com/PolicyCompass
PolicyCompass
Thank you!