what research is needed for eGov 2.0?

The European Commission (DG INFSO) is holding a consultation event (Brussels, May 28th) on the research needs in the domain “ICT for governance”. The proposed priorities are very related to web2.0 development. If you are interested, e-mail them.

If you can’t go but would like to contribute, let’s discuss it here!
In particular, what innovative ICT tools have been/could be developed for:
- opinion mining, aggregation (I think of BBC white spectrum; the DowJones presidential candidates; debategraph …
- visualization (gapminder.com, several tools from Cairns blog, see all my bookmarks here )
- policy modelling (… predictive markets? )
- mass collaborative platform (katrinaList etc…)
- large scale societal simulation (like in secondlife?)

The way I approach this question is: think of state-of-the-art e-projects in this field, and think what innovation could be implemented there.
Look forward to your input!

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4 Responses to “what research is needed for eGov 2.0?”

  1. David Says:
    May 16, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Hi David,

    Thanks for placing Debategraph in such illustrious company. For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, I have set out some of the background to our thinking about the use of collaborative, web-based debate maps to mediate public policy here.

    In response to your question in the blog post title, we are also collaborating with an expanding group of researchers in Europe and the US on the application of new types of semantic tools to complex global public policy problems; starting with climate change.

    Anyone who is interested in finding out more about, and/or participating in, the latter is welcome to join us at globalsensemaking.net.

    David

  2. osimod Says:
    May 18, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Hello David, this is great stuff, thanks a lot. i joind the group and will study it so that I have something interesting to say at the consultation meeting :)
    let´s keep in touch!
    david

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