Activities

The following activities is conducted to achieve the Policy Community's objectives:

• Establish a dynamic network of researchers and practitioners
• Encourage international community building of relevant stakeholders working in relevant areas
• Encourage multidisciplinary constituency building
• Expansion of social networking and Web 2.0, as well as exploiting mass cooperation platforms for networking stakeholders (academics, industry, governments, and designated NGO’s)
• Identifying new tools and technologies, concepts and approaches, good and bad practices which help addressing complex societal issues and providing findings at the knowledge portal in order to
• improve prediction of policy measures impacts, i.e. improved management can be developed when knowledge on the complex dynamics of social complex systems is available,
• take behavioural and societal aspects into account in policy design,
• improve the link between the public and policy makers,
• increase trust and acceptance of the citizens,
• make government more simple and user-oriented,
• make government more interconnected, and
• overcome current linguistic and cultural barriers
• Efficient collection of feedback from public sector organisations on the contents provided by the eGovPoliNet portal