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Shravani Kasturi 

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Useful Tools in Policy Making

            Policy-making involves effective decision-making. Various techniques and tools are applied in organizing thoughts towards making and implementing working policies. In policy-making, long-term decisions have to be made in order to avoid fallacies that can fail big projects. For instance, the transport industry serves a lot of people every day. The industry needs policies that can help in improving their services. Train and bus services need to be time conscience by working with policies that favor the movement schedules of most of their clients. People living within SmartCity environments depend highly on technology to access information and communicate. This means planners and policy makers have to create an effective transport network to make life manageable for city inhabitants.

            Local administrations in various developed nations lack enough competency to manage various areas of development in smart cities. Coordination between national, regional and local authorities in charge of roads and public transport using trains is challenging. This leaves issues like traffic flow and managing times schedules in bus and train stations difficult. E-participation and opinion mining are among the tools that can be used in effective policy-making to control this menace in smart cities. Eparticpation involves civic engagement and open government participatory in through Information Communication Technologies. Eparticipation can potentially improve collaboration among various levels of administration and citizens. This policy-making tool improves access to information and public services like transport. Additionally, it ensures that citizens take part in the policy-making process. Eparticipation will provide the government with the information they need on how they can improve train and bus schedules. Citizens will also get informed on the set schedule to avoid waiting for long hours. Opinion mining is another tool that can be used for effective policy formulation in the smart city transport sector. Opinion mining is the analysis of natural language to identify the emotions behind the boy text (Kumar and Reddy, 2016). Opinion mining helps in getting opinions about products and services. Authorities can use opinion mining to categorize opinions from the public as they wait in public transport stations. Opinion mining can also help the government in gathering insights from online sources like emails since they are the primary form of communication in smart cities.

 

References

Kumar, BS. And Reddy, DB. 2016. An Analysis on Opinion Mining: Techniques and Tools.

Indian Journal of Research. Vol 5(8).

Public Institutions and Digital Government Department of Economic and Social Affairs. United

Nations on E-participation.

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