policymaking20

Example of big data analysis.

Tool for visualizing networks, very promising,

A case study of the impact of public participation on technology policy: xenotransplantation. In a nutshell: no impact detectable, the field was dominated by civil servants and experts.

A Euro project looking at the impact of citizen participation in a knowledge-intensive policy field.

A Euro project looking at the impact of citizen participation in a knowledge-intensive policy field.

Attempt at massive online deliberation, now defunct. Non-mathematically fair, but it seems to have mapped the civil society's priorities somewhat. 

Clean economy via a non profit organization of local governments.

A new principle for calculation; can we apply it to social simulation? The video of the robot course is quite impressive.

To introduce myself in the group: what I study and I teach, related to a new perspective in economic modeling.

What people think about politics through what they read. Unfortunately, only for the US, but quite interesting. It looks by reading material, that the Democrats will have a hard time this November.

A new generation of Collective Intelligence (CI) technologies, adopted by public and private sector organizations, offers "the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate and invent".

Uh... collective intelligence in organizations sounds a bit creepy, like "We are the Borg".

About the project The USA Today/ Twitter Election meter is a graphic representation of the Twitter Political Index, a daily number produced by Twitter in partnership with Topsy labs and polling firms The Mellman Group and North Star Opinion Research.

Report on the first Corssover Project workshop: "Report on Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism" (aka PMOD)

The UK Government is improving the way it consults by adopting a more proportionate and targeted approach, so that the type and scale of engagement is proportional to the potential impacts of the proposal. The emphasis is on understanding the effects of a proposal and focussing on real engagement with key groups rather than following a set process.

Last night the ARG:dundee team conducted close argument analysis on a live 45 minute broadcast of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze, using our Argument AnalysisWall. We aimed to make debates available on the Argument Web for all the different compatible online tools to access.

The Social Simulator is a hands-on, private environment to practice using the language, tools and norms of the social web for social media PR and crisis response

BudgIT is creative start-up driven to retell the Nigerian budget and public data  in a finer detail across every literacy span.  We aim to stimulate citizens interests around public data and hence trigger  discussions towards better governance. We are committed to principles of open data & governance, citizen participation and data transparency.