IRSPM Conference - Panel "Supporting Public Policy and Governance: The Emerging Role of Policy Informatics"
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Apr 10, 2013 03:40 PM
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Apr 12, 2013 03:40 PM |
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| Where | Top Hotel Prague, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Contact Name | Natalie Helbig |
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PANEL DESCRIPTION
Open data strategies are being adopted worldwide as part of national and international reforms that focus on the intensive and creative use of information and technology to improve policy-making and governance. These efforts cross various policy areas including education, public health, transportation, environmental stewardship, economic development, and many other areas. The explosive growth in data, computational power, and technological capabilities has created both new challenges for practice and new tools for research. Policy informatics is an emerging area that explores how information technologies and computational modeling techniques (such as agent-based, system dynamics, data visualization or social network modeling) can support policy making and governance. A basic assumption in policy informatics is that more intensive and creative use of information and technology can improve policy-making processes and lead to better policy choices, especially under conditions of high complexity.
The complexity of public problems has not changed, what has changed is our ability to obtain information, to manipulate it, and to disseminate it. This panel welcomes contributions that use tools and techniques that investigate the non-linear relationships and complexity inherent in intractable public policy issues and management dilemmas to better understand the impacts and consequences of technological, political, policy, and managerial choices.
Link to Panel Sessions on: Supporting Public Policy and Governance: The Emerging Role of Policy Informatics
http://www.irspm2013.com/sites/default/files/panely/P47_-_SupportingPublicPolicyandGovernance-TheEmergingRoleofPolicyInformatics.pdf