Aggeliki Androutsopoulou

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Associate at University of the Aegean

European Union and governments of the member states are striving to respond to contemporary socio-economic challenges with social investments and enhanced social support, often relying on social innovation in their quest to welfare reforms. However, social policy innovations targeting to improve social welfare, often neglect objective data describi...

The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679/EC, the Regulation for the protection of personal data, is a challenge and must be seen as an opportunity for the redesign of the systems that are being used for the processing of personal data. An unexplored area where systems are being used to collect and process personal d...

Big Data is, clearly, an integral part of modern information societies. A vast amount of data is daily produced and it is estimated that, for the years to come, this number will grow dramatically. In an effort to transform the hidden information in this ocean of data into a useful one, the use of advanced technologies, such as Machine Learning, is...

Driven by ‘success stories’ reported by private sector firms, government agencies have also started adopting various Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in diverse domains (e.g. health, taxation, and education); however, extensive research is required in order to exploit the full potential of AI in the public sector, and leverage various AI t...

Previous political sciences research has revealed that democracy (democratic institutions, consultations with citizens) and technocracy (specialized knowledge of experts) are the main foundations for the development of effective and socially acceptable public policies, and that there should be balance as well as interaction and exchange of knowledg...

Governments and policy makers are striving to respond to contemporary socio-economic challenges, however, often neglecting the human factor and the multidimensionality of policy implications. In this chapter, a framework for evidence based policy making is proposed, which integrates the usage of open big data coming from a multiplicity of sources w...

Business incubation aims at stimulating entrepreneurship and nurturing ideas to transform them to viable ventures and drive economic growth. The paper defines a comprehensive framework that serves as a basis for the categorisation of all incubation services. The proposed taxonomy has been applied on ten Mediterranean university incubators. An indic...

In order to address the complexity of the modern social problems and needs through effective public policies, government agencies have started experimenting with policy informatics methods, adopting various approaches that increase citizens’ and stakeholders’ participation in the public policy formulation processes. Such approaches allow the exploi...

The growing adoption of the open innovation paradigm in the public sector poses a set of research challenges related to the particularities of the domain and the technologies required to manage the associated knowledge flows among diverse types of stakeholders. This paper aims to shed light on how the proper combination of existing ICT tools can su...

Previous political sciences research has highlighted the importance of both ‘democracy’ (democratic processes and consultation with stakeholder groups) and ‘technocracy’ (specialized knowledge of experts) as main foundations for the development of effective public policies, and the need for balance as well as interaction between them. The use of in...

Asthma is highly prevalent, often starting in infancy and persisting throughout life, and is associated with high morbidity and burden. It is a major global health challenge with growing impact, affecting more than 300 million people worldwide and at least 10% of all Europeans [1]. Furthermore, it is the most prevalent long-term condition in childr...

Formal methods for measuring the impact of transformation of public services to digital transactions is an important research challenge in the non-bureaucratic government. The eGOVSIM II toolset is a prototype Web-based application aiming to provide administrations with a methodology and an information system to calculate the gains from automating...

The public sector gradually starts exploiting the crowdsourcing ideas initially developed in the private sector. However, there is much less knowledge on efficient and effective methods and practices for public sector citizen-sourcing in comparison with private sector crowd-sourcing, so extensive research is required in this area. This paper contri...

Motivated by the multiple ‘success stories’ of the open innovation paradigm in the private sector, and also by the increasing complexity of social problems and needs, the public sector has started moving in this direction, attempting to exploit the extensive knowledge of citizens for the development of innovations in public policies and services. A...

The EU Community project seeks to promote, facilitate, and ultimately exploit the synergy of a cutting-edge intelligent collaboration platform with a community of institutional actors, stakeholders, scientists, consultants, media analysts and other individuals that can make valuable contributions to EU policy debates. Its ultimate goal is to effect...

Governments initially used social media mainly in order to disseminate information to the public about their activities, services, policies and plans. Then they started using social media also in order to collect from citizens useful information, knowledge, opinions and ideas concerning the problems and needs of modern societies and more recently i...

Government agencies have started using the social media for increasing communication with citizens, and involvement of them in public policy making processes. However, most of the research in this area has technological orientation, but limited research on the use of social media in government from management and political sciences' perspectives ha...

Social innovation requires extensive networking, communication, and collaboration among various social actors. This article presents an approach to fostering and supporting social innovation through the combined exploitation of multiple social media. Furthermore, a methodology is developed for evaluating this approach, based on sound theoretical fo...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop a novel approach to e-participation, which is based on “passive crowdsourcing” by government agencies, exploiting the extensive political content continuously created in numerous Web 2.0 social media (e.g. political blogs and microblogs, news sharing sites and online forums) by citizens without gove...

Government institutions of various levels have started experimenting with the use of social media for increasing citizens' involvement in their public policy making processes. It is necessary to evaluate systematically these initiatives from various perspectives, in order to develop new knowledge in this recently emerged area, concerning methods of...

While the first generation of e-participation has been based on official eparticipation spaces owned and operated by government, the second one is oriented towards exploiting the highly popular web 2.0 social media for performing 'crowdsourcing' of policy-related knowledge, opinions and ideas from citizens, through posting relevant policy-related c...

Document description: This deliverable examines the current landscape of Web 2.0 Social Media categorizing them as to the capabilities they provide and the user activities they allow, focusing on public policy and politics related discussions and activities, in order to drive the identification in the last chapter of the social media to be used as...