David Osimo

To address this demonstrated need for a coordinated approach to cross-border public services, the ACROSS project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, investigates a new way to deliver cross border public services, with citizens’ data sovereignty at its core. The central principle is that citizens should control their data and monitor how it is ac...

The aim of this research is to understand what strategies, models and technologies can be deployed to transform the public administration into being more efficient, effective, fair and data-centric. To do that, the research team has carried out a set of 14 case studies in three analytical domains: the first is data strategies, policies and governan...

What are the needs of open data re-users from public sector institutions in Europe? This question is critical to facilitate the publication of open data and support to re-users from EU institutions and public authorities in Member States in line with their needs for policymaking, service provision and organisational management. To what extent is th...

The eGovernment Benchmarking has become, over the years, not just a measurement framework but one of the main policy tools in digital government. As such, it needs continuous updating to stay relevant in a fast-changing context while keeping year-by-year comparability. In particular, indicators to measure usability were added over the last years bu...

Funding affects how science is carried out. Over the last 50 years, the core of science funding has become competitive, project based and increasingly oriented towards societal challenges. Recently, alternative, more open and flexible funding mechanisms have emerged, such as crowdfunding, philanthropy and bottom-up mechanisms. This chapter analyses...

Lisbon Council Discussion Paper

“Co-creation” and “design thinking” are trendy themes – the topic of innumerable conferences and a growing number of academic papers. But how do we turn co-creation into a reality for Europe’s 508 million citizens? In Co-Creation of Public Services: Why and How, a new policy brief, co-authors Francesco Mureddu and David Osimo propose a ten-step roa...

Final Project Report. European Commission, DG RTD

Funding affects how science is carried out. Over the last 50 years, the core of science funding has become competitive, project based and increasingly oriented towards societal challenges. Recently, alternative, more open and flexible funding mechanisms have emerged, such as crowdfunding, philanthropy and bottom-up mechanisms. This chapter analyses...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse a set of converging trends underpinning a larger phenomenon called science 2.0 and to assess what are the most important implications for scientific method and research institutions. Design/methodology/approach It is based on a triangulation of exploratory methods which include a wide-ranging literature review, W...

This report covers the outcomes of two studies that explored the emerging drivers for Open Science 2.0. In general, Open Science 2.0 thrives from themes such as open access to scientific outputs, open data, citizen science and open peer evaluation systems. Our studies focused on less explored themes, namely on alternative funding mechanisms for sci...

This report covers the outcomes of two studies funded by JRC IPTS to explore emerging drivers for Open Science 2.0. In general, Open Science 2.0 is associated with themes such as open access to scientific outputs, open data, citizen science and open peer evaluation systems. This study, however, focused on less explored themes, namely on alternative...

Deliverable of the Project CROSSOVER

The feasibility study provides a full review of the technological solutions needed for the deployment of the Global Internet Policy Observatory platform. Furthermore it proposes recommendations for its internal governance / management framework. The final analysis resulted in the following set of recommended technological solutions: Nutch and Alche...

In the last 15 years, European countries have invested considerable resources to provide e-government services. Despite of its increasing availability, its level of adoption has not been satisfying. On the other hand, over the last years, coinciding with the web 2.0 trend, the e-government services co-produced by citizens start to appear, often wit...

The chapter provides an overview of the current debate and state of the art in the domain of big data aiming at assessing the current and potential use of information and communications technology (ICT) tools for collaborative governance and policy modelling for opening up government operations and enhance the ‘intelligence’ of the policy-making pr...

The aim of this paper is to present an outline for discussion upon a new Research Challenge on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. This research challenge has been developed in the scope of project CROSSOVER “Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy-Making” in the view of the definition of a new Research Roadmap on ICT Tools for Governanc...

The study provides data on key trends that are affecting the modus operandi of science and research, assess the implications of this changing modus operandi on the position of science and research, identifies the key implications for research and innovation policy and provides policy recommendations for the European Commission.

In the last thirty years the role of the government has moved consistently away from services provision to regulation. Society and economy has become more interconnected, unstable and unpredictable than ever, and citizens are keener to engage in complex policy making. Within this context, traditional tools for policy making, based upon the perfectl...

As the role of government in the society is undergoing continuous change, consensus is starting to build around the potential that collaborative technologies have in the field of governance and policy modeling. For effective citizen empowerment and participation to become mainstream, at a greater scale, several challenges will have to be faced, whi...

In light of the contemporary societal challenges and the current technological trends that have revolutionized collaboration and creativity, ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling has recently emerged to achieve a better, participative, evidence-based and timely governance. Bringing together two separate worlds, i.e. the mathematical and complex s...

As governments across the world provide more and more support to open data initiatives and web 2.0 channels for engaging citizens, researchers orient themselves towards future internet, wisdom of crowds and virtual world experiments. In this context, the domain of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling has recently emerged to achieve better, parti...

In this paper we outline some of the main trends and changes we consider will affect science over the next 20 years, mainly driven by a new socio-technological paradigm, which results from the use of information and communication technologies. We first analyze three main trends (growth of scientific authorship; growth in scientific publishing; grow...

This report is the result of research conducted in 2010 by the Information Society Unit of IPTS as part of the CROSSROAD Project – A Participative Roadmap for ICT research on Electronic Governance and Policy Modelling. CROSSROAD links very diverse research disciplines with practitioners’ views and policy makers’ concerns, through a multi-stakeholde...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the main implications for innovation and competitiveness of social computing trends that promote swift social and economic relations. They are increasingly being considered by policymakers, both as tool and object for policymaking (i.e. how social computing could play a role in information society poli...

Se analiza el grado de adopción de las aplicaciones de computación social en el ámbito de la innovación en la Unión Europea (UE) y se comentan sus implicaciones principalmente en torno al papel de los usuarios en dicho proceso. También se hace balance en cuanto a la relevancia social y económica de la computación social y se exponen sus implicacion...

This paper assesses the development of emerging computing applications that fall under the family of digital applications and technologies. These applications and technologies — Internet 2 based technologies for short — enable new ways of connectivity for networking, interfacing and producing content. They have the capacity and the force to disrupt...

The objective of this study – the first of its kind – was to validate and further analyze the specific e-Government research challenges and opportunities for the enlarged European Union that had been identified in previous research. The study reveals some important indications for future EU organisation and coordination of e-Government research act...

This paper illustrates the results from the experience of two European projects aimed at building the framework for, and kick-starting on the ground, the collection of harmonised, reliable cross-country regional data. The BISER project (www.biser-eu.com) is a recently finished research project supported by the European Commission’s IST Programme wh...

This report discusses the findings of a study carried out by JRC-IPTS which aimed to assess the status of public technology procurement in the EU member states in terms of size, evolution, drivers and barriers. As the study was exploratory, it cannot be claimed that the results are conclusive. However, they have clarified several important points w...