WP2013 Objective 5.4 “ICT for Governance and Policy

Modelling”

ICT Proposers' Day 2012Warsaw 26 & 27 September 2012FP7 Work Programme 2013

Thanassis ChrissafisThanassis ChrissafisAthanassios.Chrissafis@ec.europa.euAthanassios.Chrissafis@ec.europa.eu

DGCNECT-C3DGCNECT-C3Digital ScienceDigital Science

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

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

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 €

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

Objective 5.4 ICT for Governance and Policy

Modelling: Funding schemes

• Total Funding: 19 M€

• STREPs

• Co-ordination and Support Actions

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

Towards a 'Global Systems Science' (GSS)

Scientific evidence-based policies in an interconnected worldto 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

Two pillars for research and practice for GSS

1. 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.

2. 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.

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-makingExamples:

• 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

FP7 WP2013 a) 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

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

FP7 WP2013 a) ICT for Governance

and Policy Modelling (2)

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.

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.

Examples of fields of application

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?

Research to explore policy models and policy impacts on society

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.

Key stakeholders

Industry incl. SMEs

Academic partners

International organisations

International technology leaders

Policy Institutes

Public administrations

Civil society / Citizens/ NGOs/ Youth Organisations

Thank you

for your attention!