Policy Compass FP7 Project Presentation

1. PROJECT PRESENTATION
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2. Project Overview
Policy CompassPolicy Compass
http://policycompass.eu/
•STREP Project, co-funded by the European Union under the “ICT for
Governance and Policy Making” theme (ICT-2013.5.4, Grant
Agreement No: 612133)
•Project start: 1 October 2013
•Duration: 36 months
•Project Coordinator: Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
•Consortium: 7 organizations from 5 different countries
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3. Policy Compass Consortium
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4. The Problem
• Difficulty of objectively assessing
the impact of government policies
• Poor use of available open data
resources on the internet
• Lack of consensus about a suitable
metric for measuring progress
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Human Development Index (HDI)
• Genuine Progress Index (GPI)
The Opportunity
Context
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easy-to-use tools for both the lay public and
professional policy makers to improve the
quality and transparency of the policy analysis
and monitoring phases of the policy life-cycle.
open public dataopen public data
socialsocial
mediamedia
fuzzyfuzzy
cognitivecognitive
mapsmaps
e-participatione-participation platformsplatforms &&
argumentation technologyargumentation technology

5. Contribution & Objectives
• More factual, evidence-based, transparent and accountable policy analysis
and impact evaluation.
• Exploitation of Europe’s vast amount of open public data.
• Integration with eParticipation platforms, social networks and
argumentation technology.
• Design and implementation of prosperity indices using open data sources.
• Development and evaluation of causal models or theories using FCMs.
• Evaluation of the approach on the basis of two trials, organized in UK
(Cambridgeshire) and Russia (St. Petersburg).
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6. The Policy Compass Promise
• A research prototype of an easy-to-use, highly visual and intuitive tool for:
• Constructing prosperity and other policy metrics with an easy-to-use visual
language for defining variables and functions over open data sources.
• Constructing graphs and charts visualizing metrics for selected
geographical regions and time periods.
• Annotating graphs and charts with political or policy events
• Constructing causal models with an easy-to-use visual tool for Fuzzy
Cognitive Maps (FCM).
• Sharing and debating prosperity graphs and FCM across popular social
media platforms.
• Summarizing and visualizing the debates in argument maps and
conducting structured surveys about policy issues
• Aggregating opinions on policy issues, to formulate a common position
using delegated voting via the Adhocracy platform.
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7. • The Policy Compass will be
realized as an online Web
platform integrating the tools
developed in the project.
• The platform will provide an
open API for integrating its
datastore and services into
external platforms, and
widgets for integrating its user
interfaces into selected
eParticipation platforms and
social networks.
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Technical Approach

8. Strategy & Workplan
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WP1: Requirements, Methods and Tools
- Study of State of the art
- Policy Compass Methodology & User Requirements
- Prosperity Metrics and Open Data Sources
WP2: Design
- Policy Compass Architecture
- Tools and Services Specifications
WP3: Implementation
- Development, Integration and Testing of the
Policy Compass Platform
WP4: Evaluation
-Community Building
-Trials Preparation, Execution and Evaluation
WP6: Exploitation
- Market Analysis
- Exploitation Scenarios Definition
WP5:Dissemination
-DisseminationandAwarenessCreation
-WorkshopsOrganization

9. Expected Impact (1/2)
• Simplify the way to utilize, interact, mash-up, visualize and interpret
the increasing amount of international open economic data and
wealth indicators.
• Improve the analysis and evaluation of policies
• Broaden the use of open data by citizens to support and improve
policy making.
• Raise and objectify the European public discourse on how
• to measure growth in the economy and society
• to develop holistic prosperity and progress indices
• Facilitate more objective, evidence-based and transparent policy
deliberations.
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10. Expected Impact (2/2)
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• Visualize the effects of their politics
• Communicate policy outcomes to citizens clearer
• Stimulate public debate
• Build confidence in progress towards societal goals
• Create their own prosperity /community development indices
• Monitor and control the indicator modeling process
• Leverage open statistical data
• Monitor and critically discuss the quality of public policies
• Explore the effects and costs of policies
• Engage in the development of prosperity indices
• Participate in on-line debates
• Improve the objectivity and evidential basis of their
arguments
• Learn about the social and economic consequences of
policies
Decision
Makers
Civil Society
Citizens
and especially
the Younger
Generation

11. www.PolicyCompass.eu
www.twitter.com/PolicyCompassEU
www.facebook.com/PolicyCompass
PolicyCompass
Thank you!