ICT Work Programme 2009-10

Objective 7.3 ICT for Governance and Policy

Modelling

Aniyan VargheseEuropean Commission

DG INFSOICT for Government & Public

Serviceshttp://ec.europa.eu/egovernance

2008 Conference – “Alliance with Users”, Slovenia

Reinforcing activities 2008-2010 launch Large Scale Pilots address burden reduction initiatives ICT eGovernment research in FP7, Obj.7.3

2009 Ministerial Conference (Sweden)

2001 Conference (Brussels)

2003 Conference (Como)

2005 Conference/Ministerial Declaration (Manchester)

2006 eGovernment Action Plan (Council)

2007 Conference / Ministerial Declaration (Lisbon) National Progress Report & Benchmarking Report good practice & community sharing

Decade of eGovernmenteEuro

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2010 Next phase of eGovernment 2010-2015 ?

Now

2008

When?

2015

Governance/Policy Domains

• Legislation/Decision-making• Political views & opinions

2010

Social Domain

• Wikipedia• Facebook• YouTube• …???

ICT for participative eGovernance

Professional Domain• ePractice• MyHealth• US Patent• … ???

• Continuous opinion stream• Simultaneous multi-lingual debate• Real-time policy modelling • Crowd-sourcing• Digital legitimacy• New governance models

Objective 7.3 – Call 4“ICT for governance and policy modeling”

a) governance and participation toolboxb) policy modelling, simulation and visualisation

STREPs: 14 million €

c) roadmapping and networking

Coordination Actions, Support Actions: 1 M€

a) Governance and participation toolbox

• advanced tools and new governance models to empower and engage individuals, societal groups and communities

• mass cooperation platforms

• facilitate transparency and tracking of inputs to the policy and decision making process

• enable creation, sharing and tracking of group knowledge

• security, identity and access controls

• safeguarding against misuse, ensuring privacy & providing feedback

Description

a) Governance and participation toolbox

Expected Impact

• improved empowerment and engagement of individuals, groups and communities in policy making processes.

• increased trust of the citizens through transparency and feedback of their contributions.

• more efficient collection of feedback to continuously improve governance.

b) Policy modelling, simulation and visualisation

• Real-time opinion visualisation based on modelling, societal simulation, gaming and mixed reality applications

• Policy modelling, based on the simulated behaviour and wishes of large numbers of people

• Next generation of public services as complex service systems in the environment of social networking and collaborative society, including the needs of the younger generation.

• Large-scale data analysis and cloud computing

Description

• Improved prediction of impacts of policy measures:

• with increased contribution and involvement of individuals and communities

• based on intelligent and optimised use of vast public sector knowledge resources.

• Strengthened competitive position of European industry in:

• cooperation platforms • optimisation tools• simulation tools• visualisation tools

b) Policy modelling, simulation and visualisation

Expected Impact

c) Roadmapping and Networking

• RTD roadmap to identify emerging technologies, research directions and potential applications. Insight into research activities undertaken in non-EU countries:

– Support Action(12 months).

• A dynamic 'Network' to encourage networking of relevant stakeholders and multidisciplinary constituency building:

– Coordination Action (24-36 months).

Description

Scenario 1a

Opinion visualisationCrowd-sourcing

SimulationMixed reality

Cloud computingSocial networking

Mass collaboration/innovation

Scenario 1b Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Scenario 4Scenario 5

Scenario 6

Scenarios

Scenario 1a Citizens’ stronger involvement

in policy issues

Description•A complex societal problem is to be solved

•Citizens can input solutions into a tool which is able to process them

•Among 10,000 suggestions analysed, the system identifies the best – or a combination of the best

•The solution chosen helps deal with the problem. Collaborative solution of a complex problem

Scenario 1bIssues of high concern to

government and citizens

Description•Emergency requiring mobilisation of volunteers

•Input received from large number of persons in real time

•Large-scale mobilisation helps to deal with the emergency

Scenarios 1a & 1bResearch solution:

Citizens-created servicesCrowdsourcing

Research• Multi-channel

platforms to process automatically large amounts of data, formulate sensible information and visualise outcome.

• Tools to test out and measure the efficacy of the platform

• Is it generic or too specific?

DescriptionA municipality wants to set up a collaborative system where problems noticed by citizens can be voiced (by sms or voice mail or e-mail)

Problems could bebad lighting in a street; pollution level high; rubbish not collected; dangerous school premises....

whatever of citizen concern

Scenario 2Urban problems

Government – Citizens

Scenario 2Urban problems

Government – Citizens

ResearchHow can problems be managedand solution found andcitizens informed of theaction taken?

What tool to bedeveloped to deal withthis? Can a simulation ofthe process be doneto see if it works?

Can this policy be simulated to predict its impact?

Scenario 3 Scientific approach to social networking

for governanceDescription/Research

Scientific evidence of social networking

Simulate social networking process

How could it evolve in the future?

How could it improve or fail? ?

2015

2008

Description how mash up can come up with intelligent solutions and representations

analysis of demographic features and merging them to know the best action to take

Scenario 4 Cloud computing

in government services

Research

Analysis of large amounts of multi-source and multi-layer data

Continuous improvement of results using self- learning and validation algorithms

Tool for intelligent mashups

Scenario 4 Cloud computing

in government services

Scenario 5younger generation for mass

cooperation/innovation

Description•youngsters have very strong social network•they innovate fast•they put it out with no hierarchy•some becomes an instant success.

•world of youngsters in innovation and also to give the opportunity for contributing to policy making; •how can it work in world of inflexible institutions and bureaucracy?

Scenario 5younger generation for mass

cooperation/innovation

Research

•How to capitalise the strong presence and hectic activity of young people in social networks and use it in policy-making

•How to make the youngsters’ arguments understandable to government so as to realise the big impact of this process

Scenario 6 financial crisis

?

Scenario 6 financial crisis

Research• how modelling, transparency and impact assessment of risks could have avoided the situation

• at present: lack of transparency of risks and financial systems, hence one failure leads to another as a pack of cards.

• future - IT for financial modelling, risk analysis, and transparency; thus possible avoidance of a similar situation in the future.

Previous consultations on ICT for Governance &

Policy Modelling

Stockholm, eChallenges 23/10/08

Workshop

Torino eGov 20081/09/08

Discussion Panel

Berlin04/07/08

Conference on Policy Modelling

Budapest22/01/2009

Infoday

More infodays if demand

Jan-Feb 2009

Brussels, EC 28/05/08

Consultation

Networking Sessions

1. Policy Modelling & Simulation 25 November 2008Session organiser: Jeremy Millard

2. Governance & Participation toolbox 27 November 2008, 11:00-12:30 Room Saint Clair 1Session organiser: Maria Wimmer

Roadmap for projects’ launch

• November 08: ICT Call 4 launch

• 1 April 09: Closing deadline of Call 4

• May 09: Evaluation

• July 09: Negotiations

• Sept/Oct 09: Launch of projects

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What will you gain:

Budapest 22 January 2009

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• Meet researchers with similar or complementary research interests

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• Follow-up of the ICT Event in Lyon

FP7 – ICT Proposers’ Day

Obtain information

• Challenges and objectives of the Work Programme

• Instruments, contracts, rules for participation

• Around 100 Commission officials present

FP7 – ICT Proposers’ Day22 January 2009 - Budapest

Structure of the one day event:

• organised as networking forum with no formal agenda • 8 scenes dedicated to the challenges of ICT WP 2009-2010 to share information on proposal ideas• series of ‘networking booths’

Prepare in advance starting from NOW!

• meet your future partners virtually on the internet site through an on-line communication forum• leave your comments and express your interest• present your proposal idea - submit a presentation until the 19th of January at 12:00

Register on http://ec.europa.eu/ictproposersday free of charge!

Contact: INFSO-ICTPROPOSERSDAY@ec.europa.eu Alessandro.Barbagli@ec.europa.eu

Proposers' Day

Budapest22 January 2009