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The Decalogue of Policy Making 2.0: Results from Analysis of Case Studies on the Impact of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling

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Despite the availability of a myriad of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based tools and methodologies for supporting governance and the formulation of policies, including modelling expected impacts, these have proved to be unable to cope with the dire challenges of the contemporary society. In this chapter we present the results of the analysis of a set of promising cases researched in order to understand the possible impact of what we define ‘Policy Making 2.0’, which refers to ‘a set of methodologies and technological solutions aimed at enabling better, timely and participative policy-making’. Based on the analysis of these cases we suggest a bouquet of (mostly ICT-related) practical and research recommendations that are relevant to researchers, practitioners and policy makers in order to guide the introduction and implementation of Policy Making 2.0 initiatives. We argue that this ‘decalogue’ of Policy Making 2.0 could be an operational checklist for future research and policy to further explore the potential of ICT tools for governance and policy modelling, so to make next generation policy making more ‘intelligent’ and hopefully able to solve or anticipate the societal challenges we are (and will be) confronted today and in the future.

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    http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html.

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    http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/CROSSROAD.html.

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    http://www.crossover-project.eu/.

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    http://www.gov.uk/2050-pathways-analysis.

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    http://www.gleamviz.org.

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    http://www.state.gov/opinionspace/.

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    http://www.urbansim.org.

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This chapter is based on the research titled “Researching and Drafting of Four Case Studies on Applications of ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling” that was commissioned by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, in the frame of the “CROSSOVER” project, a support action funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme.

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  1. Decision Support Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Iroon Polytechniou 9, 15780, Zografou, Greece

    Sotirios Koussouris, Fenareti Lampathaki, Panagiotis Kokkinakos & Dimitrios Askounis

  2. European Commission, JRC IPTS, C/Inca Garcilaso, 3-41092, Seville, Spain

    Gianluca Misuraca

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Koussouris, S., Lampathaki, F., Misuraca, G., Kokkinakos, P., Askounis, D. (2015). The Decalogue of Policy Making 2.0: Results from Analysis of Case Studies on the Impact of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling. In: Boughzala, I., Janssen, M., Assar, S. (eds) Case Studies in e-Government 2.0. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08081-9_10

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