The ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling Blog

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2010-02-02 11:48:46| No Replies

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS on “Future Research on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling”

The CROSSROAD project, a Support Action funded by the European Commission, aims to deliver a Research Roadmap on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling, which will be supported by the contribution ... [read more]
eGovernance, Policy Modelling, Call
2010-01-18 13:39:20| No Replies

CROSSROAD : The EU Roadmap on ICT research for Governance and POlicy Modelling

CROSSROAD is the FP7/Objective 7.3 Support Action, with the aim to develop a research roadmap for the domain. Started January 2010, CROSSROAD is already open for discussion at: bit.ly/5qUHg3 [read more]
governance, policy modelling, roadmap
2009-07-13 17:44:11| 1 replies

Comparing levels of internet access, internet use and e-government use by individuals and enterprises in the North Sea Region

As part of its work for the Smart Cities project, MEMORI has produced an analysis of Internet access, Internet usage and e-government usage by individuals and enterprises in the different SmartCities ... [read more]
e-government, internet, smart cities, e-gov, eurostat
2009-05-04 13:54:23| No Replies

Preliminary leading organisations list

The "ICT for Governance and policy modelling" Team has drawn up a list of organisations acting in areas relevant for the community. The list is available here. The Team invites you to revise the list ... [read more]
2009-04-28 13:29:36| 1 replies

THEME of the WEEK: which ICT architecture for an open and empowering public sphere

This week, the theme of discussion has been suggested by a member of our community, Mr. Michael Kaschesky. He observed that a sustainable ICT architecture for Europe will not establish itself per ... [read more]
2009-04-05 16:30:33| 1 replies

THEME of the WEEK: Web3.0 in eGovernment

Hi everybody, I am here again to encourage discussions about topics of interest for the "ICT for Governance and Policy modelling" community, hoping that, after the closure of the call, everyone is ... [read more]
web3.0 eGovernment
2009-03-23 17:49:04| No Replies

Using simulation models in modelling eGovernment

I am working on building a simulation model using System Dynamics methodology, aiming at enabling eGovernment decision‑makers/managers to examine the effects of their policies/decisions on the ... [read more]
2009-03-12 17:33:51| No Replies

THEME of the WEEK: “Virtual worlds for modelling citizens behaviours: pros and cons”

see the post at http://www.epractice.eu/en/blog/288058 [read more]
2009-02-22 14:19:13| 2 replies

THEME of the WEEK - GalazyZoo: a crowd sourcing experiment for the classification of huge amounts of data

We started last week from the clouds, now we are moving to the galaxies.... We have recently seen an interesting initiative that could be not at sidereal long distance from egovernment: ... [read more]
crowd classification opinion
2009-02-12 14:00:27| 1 replies

comuno - Internet-Enabled Deliberation and Collective Decision-Making

The comuno case http://www.epractice.eu/cases/comuno developed and tested a novel methodology and ICT-toolset for identifying and tracing processes of public opinion-forming and mobilization on the ... [read more]
participation innovation governance
2009-02-10 10:00:04| 1 replies

THEME of the WEEK: Public sector data available from the cloud

It's highly time to start using this community to launch debates on research topics falling in the scope of the Objective 7.3. Starting from today, the facilitator team will propose every week a new ... [read more]
cloud publicdata
2009-02-05 21:22:45| No Replies

Workshop on ICT for Governance & Policy Modelling, in Athens, Greece

This workshop in Athens (27/2/2009) will be a good opportunity to exchange ideas on the ICT Objective 7.3, interact with EC and continue working towards common goals. eGovernance practitioners and ... [read more]
egovernance, egovernment, policy modelling
2009-01-13 11:00:02| No Replies

Two opportunities for proposers

In the coming weeks, all those experts who are interested in submitting poroposals to FP7/Objective 7.3 can profit of two important meetings: - a consultation meeting next 21 January in Budapest ... [read more]
meeting Objective7.3
2008-12-19 11:32:34| 1 replies

Objective 7.3: discussion document for proposers

Dear experts, the facilitators team of this community has prepared a document containing some information and possible scenarios related to the Objective 7.3 'ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling' ... [read more]
objective7.3 scenarios
2008-09-24 20:59:04| 1 replies

User-centric perspective

How many different kinds of eGov user definitions can you identify?Have anyone categorised them? I use organisational structures as PAs, businesses, citizens, officials, etc etc. When making policy ... [read more]
2008-09-13 17:48:44| 2 replies

eParticipation for the "casual participants", not only for engaged citizens

One of my main concerns about current applications for collaborative governance and participation is their high costs of engagements, even for new web2 applications. They are still designed for ... [read more]
egov2research
2008-09-11 17:41:57| No Replies

another idea: “policyRovr”

Maybe you know BlogRovR.com. It’s a firefox plugin that scans the blog you read and shows entries related to pages you are browsing. So if you are checking websites about your dog’s ... [read more]
egov2research
2008-09-11 16:11:49| 1 replies

imagining future applications: Creating engagement by sharing mark-ups of a document.

This is a cross-posting from my personal blog egov20.wordpress.com I believe that the key challenges for public participation where ICT could help are: - lowering the cost of participation - ... [read more]
egov2research
2008-09-03 15:24:13| 1 replies

Panel discussion on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling at EGOV 2008

An interesting panel discussion organized by Maria Geronymaki took place today morning at EGOV 2008, the European scientific conference on electronic government and electronic participation ... [read more]
EGOV policy modelling stakeholders new governance models
2008-08-25 12:43:09| No Replies

Rate the networking session proposal for ICT 2008 Lyon

ICT 2008 in Lyon from 25-27 November 2008 is a must event. See http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm. 214 networking sessions are proposed. Please rate for the event ... [read more]
governance toolbox, participation toolbox, policy modelling
2008-08-22 13:14:00| No Replies

Just to introduce myself

Hi, everyone! I have worked as a policy analyst and modeller in the fields of eGov and eInclusion and eHealth for the last six years and I can say policy makers desperately need this type of support. ... [read more]
Policy Analysis, Policy Modeling & Simulation, Agent Based Modelling
2008-08-14 10:06:38| No Replies

Project EFFICIENT: A software toolset for modelling e-transaction requirements and training

Dear ICT for Governance Forum, Our public research center has just recently completed an R&D project and I am hoping that the members of this group could give me some feed back as to the usefulness ... [read more]
modelling etransactions training requirements
2008-08-12 11:26:15| No Replies

An interesting report of the workshop - exciting research themes with technological focus - join discussions

Let me try to start with a first comment. In my opinion those themes are very exciting and challenging. Already the report of the workshop (see URL in the introduction of the communtiy from Maria) ... [read more]
Policy Modelling toolbox, eParticipation toolbox, opinion mining