COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR POLICY MAKING

ITS 832 Chapter 7

Comparative Analysis of Tools and Technologies for Policy Making

Information Technology in a Global Economy

Professor Miguel Buleje

Introduction

• Policy making

• Assessment methodology

• Tools summary

• Conclusion

Policy Making • Political visions  programs and actions

• Purpose is to change the real world

• Addresses political issues, any improvements and/or solutions, creating laws & regulations, monitoring & evaluation existent policies, and others.

• Multidisciplinary field

• Political, Social, Economics, Statistics, Information and Computer Sciences.

• ICT offers opportunities to modernize policy making

• Goals

• Better understand reality

• Increase stakeholder engagement

• Respond within tighter timeframes

• Provide higher quality deliverables

Assessment Methodology • Identification

• Initial search - targeted

• Expanded search - general

• Select and read scholarly papers

• Follow references from scholarly papers

• Categorization • 11 logical groups

• Comparative analysis

• Conceptualization

• Overall discussion of the presented tools & potential to enhance Policy Making

Tools Categories

• Visualization • Argumentation • eParticipation • Opinion mining • Simulation • Serious games • Tools specifically designed for policy makers • Persuasive • Social network analysis (SNA) • Big data analytics • Semantics and linked data

Summary

• Examined 75 tools grouped into 11 categories

• Focus on 3 main areas of policy making • Main activities

• Stage of the policy cycle

• Stakeholder types

• Appendix • Links to many tools discussed in the paper

• Takeaway • Research methods employed