WP2013 Objective 5.4 “ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling”

1. ICT Proposers' Day 2012 Warsaw 26 & 27 September 2012 FP7 Work Programme 2013 WP2013 Objective 5.4 “ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling” Thanassis ChrissafisAthanassios.Chrissafis@ec.europa.eu DGCNECT-C3 Digital Science

2. Challenges • Lack of effective tools for • Understanding complex environment • Stimulating sustainable economic growth • Addressing financial crisis • Active involvement of citizens, in particular younger generation in decision making • Policy design • Governance

3. Main drivers • Societal • Behavioural/societal aspects taken into account in policy design • Lack of transparency in corporate and public governance entails low trust by society • Citizens and young people's involvement in decision-making proceses • Technological • Expansion of social networking, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 • Complex systems can force new attitudes in governments response to citizens’ needs: close the gap in technology use • Economic factors • Need for stimulating sustainable economic growth • Increased risks and economic/financial crisis

4. Continuity in ICT research for governance & policy modelling and Global Systems Science • FP7 WP2009-10 • 8 projects (STREPs - CSA), total funding 15M€ • FP7 WP2011-12 • One IP, 6 Streps, 2 CSA started between Aug and Dec 2011, total funding of 26M€ • FP7 WP2011-12 Call 8 9.14 and call FET-OPEN: • 6 STREPS and 2 CSA. Total funding 16M €

5. FP7 WP2013 Objective 5.4: Paving the way towards H2020 • Building on the previous calls • Continuity to reinforce research in the domain • Public sector role in stimulating sustainable economic growth • Innovation in public services • Stakeholders: citizens and younger generation • Contributing to the H2020 challenges on social innovation

6. Objective 5.4 ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling: Funding schemes • Total Funding: 19 M€ • STREPs • Co-ordination and Support Actions

7. The DIGITAL SCIENCE unit (DGCNECT-C3) • The priorities of Unit C3.Digital Science are: • 1. Open access and seamless Digital ERA • 2. Citizen engagement and digital science practices • 3. Coordination of the ICT dimension of the Excellence pillar of H2020 • 4. Global Systems Science will engage research in relevant models of highly interconnected global systems and use of Big Data directly with policy and societal responses to global challenges

8. Towards a 'Global Systems Science' (GSS) Scientific evidence-based policies in an interconnected world to face global challenges like financial crisis, climate change or food security Objectives of GSS: • Best scientific evidence available on global challenges • Stimulate societal and policy action in response to these challenges • Options for decision makers significantly better suited to anticipating impacts of decisions in a highly connected world ICT Drivers of GSS • Powerful computing platforms to simulate highly interconnected systems • Data analytics to use of abundance of data on socio-economic, financial and ecological systems • Collaborative platforms and social media for stakeholder engagement Focus on selected policy areas: • dynamics of financial markets • urban systems dynamics • climate change impact

9. Two pillars for research and practice for GSS • Policy informatics: support of evidence-based policies in highly connected systems • Advanced simulation of interconnected systems • Big Data on interlinked social, economic and ecological systems. • Societal informatics: support of policy action and societal change - From models to action • Social media and participatory ICT to encourage participation of stakeholders in acquiring/analysis of scientific evidence and thereby creating trust in scientific evidence.

10. Overall scope of Objective 5.4 • A growing need for research and innovation for future public services that will be a catalyst for growth and sustainability • ICT tools for collaborative governance and policy modeling show great opportunities for empowerment of citizens and increased transparency in decision-making Examples: • System Models addressing  decisions  in a global networked context. • To better understand interdependencies between economic, social, and ecological systems in order to allow coherent decisions across different domain • To improve the interface/link between modellers and societal stakeholders. • ICT tools that allow engagement of stakeholders in the process of gathering data and analysing impact of models on policy decisions

11. FP7 WP2013a) ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling (1) Policy Modelling and Simulation • Evidence-based policies for growth and investment strategies.E.g: next generation of economic models that take into account linkage of economic, social and ecological issues, in particular in view of the current financial crisis and need for action in climate change. • Innovation in public service through the use of ICT • Build on web2.0/web3.0, social networking, crowd sourcing, collaborative technologies • Solve complex large scale policy problems in a distributed fashion

12. FP7 WP2013a) ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling (2) ICT tools for: • Innovative data mining functionalities to identify the emerging societal trends as a result of the economic environment, • E.g. Big data for social use • Further advance crowd-sourcing techniques to engage citizens in sharing knowledge and expertise to collectively solve complex, large-scale problems in a distributed fashion. • E.g.: tools to allow new forms of interaction between stakeholders and modellers; validation of models, visualisation of model results.... • Exploit the vast reserves of public sector data for new services

13. Co-ordination and support actions (1) b1) Road-mapping of research on the use of ICT for innovative public services and governance Need: a roadmap of uptake of system models and 'Big Data' in policy areas and the bottlenecks to do so (in research, in models and data but also in the way research/models are presented to stakeholders) Example of relevant topic:empowerment of the younger generations through ICT tools. Roadmap results point to implementation under Horizon 2020.

14. Co-ordination and Support Action (2) b2) Collaboration, on Electronic Identification and Authentication - dialogue with countries that have activities on eID and authentication, in particular with the USA and Asia -ensuring data protection for the citizens. -exchange good practices - leverage for European solutions worldwide and spearhead European solutions for mutual benefit.

15. Examples of fields of application Research to explore policy models and policy impacts on society • urban planning policy • social and economic policies • role of younger generation in policy making • climate change • mobility • tax policy • demographics/immigration, mobility • sustainable recovery from the financial crisis • others?

16. WP2013 Objective 5.4Expected impact • Improved take up of policy making tools by decision makers in public administrations • Improved validation of the potential impacts of policies through evidence • Stronger evidence of productivity gains and reduction of costs in the provision of public services • Evidence of the younger generation contributing to policy formation/development through social media • Increased take up of open and public data for provision of public services.

17. Key stakeholders • Industry incl. SMEs • Academic partners • International organisations • International technology leaders • Policy Institutes • Public administrations • Civil society / Citizens/ NGOs/ Youth Organisations

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