policy compass egose 2014 presentation

Grant Agreement 612133

Assessing Governmental Policies

Impact through Prosperity Indicators

and Open Data

Policy Compass Project

St Petersburg, EGOSE 2014 Conference

20 November 2014 First Policy Compass Review

INTRODUCTION

• Social indicators- statistics, statistical series and all other forms of

evidence that enable us to assess where we stand and are going with

respect to our values and goals, and to valuate specific programs and

determine their impact (Bauer, 1966)

• 3 steps to define indicators for policy monitoring and evaluation:

• 1. measure police impacts in relation to the environmental issue

(indicators for issue identification);

• 2. measure the investment leveraged (indicators for policy

formulation);

• 3. measure impacts across sectors and on the overall well-being of

the population (indicators for policy assessment).

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The objective of Policy Compass Project

• Policy Compass is EU co-funded project, started at 2013.

• aims to address is whether and how open data, social media, e-

participation platforms and fuzzy cognitive maps and argumentation

technology can be integrated and applied to provide better tools on

the www for constructing, sharing and visualizing prosperity metrics

and casual models for policies.

The objectives:

• To provide an overview of prosperity indicators for assessing the

impact of governmental policies

• To provide the data sources associated to their calculation (Open data

included)


Methodology for Defining the Scenarios and Deriving the

Evaluation Metrics


Identification of Scenarios for Field Trials

UK Scenario: Cambridgeshire

• Scenario based decision making problem surrounding

Adult Learning Fund allocation for Community Learning &

Skills Partnerships (CLAS) who are managed by the Adult

Learning & Skills team (ALS)

Russia Scenario: Leningrad (Leningradskaya oblast’)

• Scenario based on Information Society policy-making

problem in the Leningrad Region


Leningrad region: Russia Scenario (ITMO)


• The focus of field trial will be on the Regional program "Development of

the Information Society in Leningrad region in 2014-2018“ developed

and managed by the Committee for Telecommunications and

Informatization of the Leningrad Region (the Committee).

• This program is very important for the socio-economic development of

the region and is in the spotlight both the administration and the residents

of the region

• The Committee is the most concerned organization in assessing the

effectiveness of their projects as well as in the prediction of their results

• The Committee is also responsible for implementing the governmental

Open Data program realization

• eGov Center of ITMO University has a long and fruitful relationship with

the Committee and its interest in cooperation on the PolicyCompass

project confirmed by special letter of support

The main problems to be solved

• The deteriorating socio-economic situation in the region

requires a radical change in management practices that

currently have the following properties:

• Lack of analytical support of policy-making, which is due to

absence of need for the application of analytical tools in previous

years

• Specific traditional management style, which requires certain

actions, but does not require any practical results or impact

• Lack of motivation of civil servants to meet the real needs of the

population and business

• Political passivity of citizens who understand the lack of attention to

their needs as well as the lack of factual information and tools to

analyse it

Goals, Metrics and Data Sources

• Regional program "Development of the Information Society in Leningrad region in 2014-2018“ is the basic source of development goals, projects and Key Goal Indicators

• Additional data sets:• Quality of life

• Level of citizens satisfaction with the activities of the authorities

• Regional GDP and Government spending

• Spending on regional economic development and social protection

• Level of public services accessibility

• Historical Information

• Etc.

• Data sources:• Open data sets (available at the time of Field Trial)

• Departmental databases (will be recommended for immediate conversion to open data)

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Very simplified example for scenarios


Initiative1

e-workflow introduction

Quality of state

functions

performance

Initiative 2

Broadband nets

expansion

Initiative 3

citizen’s e-skills

improvement

Level of public

services

accessibility

Quality

of lifeQuality of

public services

delivery

+0.5

+0.6

+0.1

+0.4

+0.4

+0.6

+0.3

+0.4

+0.4

+0.5

Expected Impact of Policy Compass platform to Leningrad Region

• Increase in quality of analytical support of policy-making

• Change the management style in favour of more attention

to practical results and positive impact of planned and

implemented actions.

• Growth of civil servants motivation to meet the needs of

the population and business

• Increasing political activity of citizens, informed and able

to actively influence the formation of regional policies.


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www.twitter.com/PolicyCompassEU

www.facebook.com/PolicyCompass

PolicyCompass

Thank you!

Grant Agreement 612133

Lyudmila Vidyasova

ITMO University

[email protected]

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