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The author analyses the dominant discourses on the evolution of policymaking in the era of the Industrial Internet. By focusing on the topics and related narratives that derive from both societal and communicational issues in the light of the digital transformation, the author provides a sound overview on the current technology-driven evolution of policymaking and gives an outlook on future tasks that derive from related mechanisms within the political sphere. By contextualising developments associated with the Internet of Things and corresponding political outcomes in the shape of regulatory frameworks, it is outlined how the availability of data changes the way policies are made and furthermore demonstrated how influencers can guide the process of policymaking by providing data-oriented communicational services. This dialectic shift from political ideology towards evidence-based or data-driven policies accordingly would not only affect the nature of public discourse but be furthermore amplified by the Industrial Internet and associated outfits.
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IDC’s Worldwide Internet of Things Spending Guide examines the Internet of Things (IoT) opportunity from a country, industry, use case and technology perspective and is published every 6 months on the IDC website http://www.idc.com.
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The European Commission's Digital Agenda forms one of the seven pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy, which sets objectives for the growth of the European Union (EU) by 2020.
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Evidence-based policy is supposed to be a public policy informed by rigorously established objective evidence. An important aspect of evidence-based policy is the use of scientifically rigorous studies such as randomised controlled trials to identify programmes and practices capable of improving policy-relevant outcomes.
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Liquid democracy defined as “a democratic system in which most issues are decided by direct referendum. However, since no one has time for this, you can delegate your votes. Here’s the cool part; you can delegate your votes on a certain topic to one person, and then delegate your votes on another topic to someone else. And delegations are transitive; you can delegate to someone who delegates to someone else, etc, in which case your votes will flow to whoever is at the end of the line. Of course, you can un-delegate’ at any time” David Cary on January 29, 2007 https://communitywiki.org/LiquidDemocracy.
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Porcaro, G. (2017). Policy and Politics in the Era of the Industrial Internet: How the Digital Transformation Will Change the Political Arena. In: Klewes, J., Popp, D., Rost-Hein, M. (eds) Out-thinking Organizational Communications. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41845-2_4
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