Share PSI 2.0

Share-PSI is the pan European network offering advice on implementation of the (Revised) PSI Directive, formally the European Directive on the Public Sector Information. It comprises many of the government departments responsible for implementing the (Revised) PSI Directive across Europe along with standards bodies, academic institutions, commercial organisations, trade associations and interest groups. A series of workshops in 2014 and 2015 identified what does and doesn’t work, what is and isn’t practical, what can and can’t be expected of different stakeholders. Advice is offered as a set of Best Practices. Each of these is a stand alone document that is based on one or more case studies presented during the workshop series. Best Practices are supported by evidence of their implementation, details of which are provided in one or more guidance documents that are produced by EU Member States.

Website: https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/

EU Community

EU Community merges ICT and Social Media networking with established online media and stakeholder groups to cultivate transparency, enhance efficiency and stimulate fresh ideas for EU policy making. EU Community lays foundations for a better EU policy-making by providing tools that identify credible stakeholders and relevant documents. It provides decision makers with better policy options by combining social media interactions, qualified contributors, document curation, visual analysis plus online and offline trust-building tools.

Website: http://project.eucommunity.eu

NOMAD

Collaboration and crowdsourcing are the realities of today’s public Internet. The so-called “Web2.0” provides the ability to leverage the vast amount of user-generated content for supporting governments in their political decisions. This ability requires new ICT tools that will be able to analyze and classify the opinions expressed on the informal Web, or stimulate responses, as well as to put data from sources as diverse as blogs, online opinion polls and government reports to an effective use. NOMAD aims to introduce new dimensions into the experience of policy making by providing decision-makers with fully automated solutions for content search, selection acquisition, categorization and visualization that work in a collaborative form in the policy-making arena.

Website: http://www.nomad-project.eu/

ENGAGE

Information and Communication Technologies have an unprecedented potential to improve the responsiveness of governments to the needs of citizens and have long been recognized as a key strategic tool to enable reforms in the public sector. During the last years, this potential of ICT has started to be dealt with in a multi-disciplinary way, giving bearth to new research communities dealing with governance and policy modelling, modelling and simulation of complex systems, public administration information systems, open governance and social media. However, this potential is to this day non-systematically exploited, as there are significant barriers that hinder the effective exploration, management and distribution of the vast amounts of available public sector data towards the research communities. The main goal of ENGAGE project is the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastucture, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation, semantic annotation and visualization tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and governance-related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens.

Project Website: https://www.engage-eu.eu/

PADGETS

PADGETS aims at bringing together two well established domains, the mashup architectural approach of web 2.0 for creating web applications (gadgets) and the methodology of system dynamics in analyzing complex system behaviour. The objective is to design, develop and deploy a prototype toolset that will allow policy makers to graphically create web applications that will be deployed in the environment of underlying knowledge in Web 2.0 media.

For this reason, the project introduces the concept of Policy Gadget (Padget)- similarly to the approach of gadget applications in web 2.0- to represent a micro web application that combines a policy message wirth underlying group knowledge in social media (in the form of content and user activities) and interacts with end users in popular locations (such as social networks, blogs, forums, news, sites etc) in order to get and convey their input to policy makers.

Through the PADGETS platform any policy can become a reusable and communicable web application to be used in relation to underlying content and social activities over the web. Policy makers will be able to set up such applications on their own and use them to communicate their policies to the public. People can use these applications as they use everyday services and policy makers can track the results of this interaction back to their policy making process to assist them in reaching solid decisions that represent society’s input and aspirations.

Website: http://www.padgets.eu/

NET-EUCEN

The NET-EUCEN project creates, animates and manages a working network of stakeholders in the Governance and Policy Modelling domains belonging to all the European countries and with relevant knowledge of massive on-line service fruition and eInclusion policies and interests, thus covering the whole supply chain of the Service for Users (S4U).

The project addresses the following specific objectives:

1) to set-up a network composed by experienced S4U European stakeholders, sharing common practices, objectives and work methods;

2) assess new and innovative application scenarios and foster their industrialization, set-up all over Europe by supporting the multidisciplinary approach to the finding of innovative ICT solutions for citizens, public administrations and large communities.

 

Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/999928478/project/250522/program/31005240/details

DEMO-net

DEMO-net, short for The Democracy network is a Network of Excellence research project funded by the European Commission’s sixth framework programme. The overarching objective from DEMO-net.org is to strengthen scientific, technological and social research excellence in eParticipation by integrating the research capacities of individuals and organizations spread across Europe. A more detailed definition of e-participation is “the use of information and communication technologies to broaden and deepen political participation by enabling citizens to connect with one another and with their elected representatives” (Macintosh 2004). This research will help coordinate the framework involved in eParticipitation by connecting leading European organizations to pool together research regarding current political practices.

 

Project Website: https://participedia.net/organization/316

ICTE-PAN

ICTE-PAN developed an innovative technology for modelling public administration operations and tools for transforming these models into design specifications for e-Government environments automating and simulating complex bureucratic processes. Furthermore, meta-tools and peripheral software components have been developed for implementing the design specifications into interactive and intelligent web-enabled portal environments that improve user access to information and facilitate contacts, exchanges and feedback within administrations. ICTE-PAN has drawn on existed collaboration / communication procedures and practices in Public Administrations, and on bulding blocks of currently operating software platforms, and has carried out research and development on innovative web-enabled models and methods for the civil servants, to effectively collaborate and transact within public administrations.

 

Website: http://ictepan.eurodyn.com/edos/