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Connecting people to policy making: the Futurium experiment
Symposium "Generation Web 2.0:using new technologies in the public sector in Europe",
Tallinn, 26-27 June 2014
Franco AccordinoEuropean Commission - DG CONNECT
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Energy positive
Enhanced-humans
Big Big Data“Organic” computing
Cloudcomputing
Energy efficient
Internet of Things
3D PrintingComplex systems
Virtualisation
2015-20 2040-50
Fou
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s
Tech
nolo
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Ch
allen
ges/I
ssu
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Financial stability
Sustainability
Healthyageing
Resourceefficiency
Climatechanges
Policy Making 2.0
TrustSecurityprivacy
Smart citiesResource
sharingPolicy
Making 3.0
Towardsimmortality
Interim/betastatus
Governance
QuantumInternet
Citizen empowerment
“Conventional” ICT (Silicon based, Packet switching, Boolean, …)
ICT-Bio-Nano-Neuro-Cogno-Quantum convergence
Big Data
“Play & Rewind”
Bio-devicesSimulated
worlds
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Today's socio-political drivers
• Data, computing and connectivity everywhere• Government's control on people• Individual empowerment• Inclusion and skills• Systemic automation• Erosion of human employment• Inter-generational tensions• Costs/impacts of public services• Rise of movements• Disaffection of people from public matters
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Futurium purpose
To enable a collective inquiry
into the ideas and aspirations of
citizens, in order to feed future
policy reflections
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Futures(Visions)
Policies
Inspire
Impact on individuals, society,
economy, environment,
politics, technologies,…Real world
Trends
ScientificEvidence
Sense & Analyse data, Identify issues and challenges,
Elicit knowledge
(Re-)shapeInform
Envision
IMPLEMENTATION /REVIEW
DESIGN
Stakeholders
Policy makers
Other factors than evidence
SocialNetworks
Rat
ion
al, s
cien
tifi
c, a
nal
ytic
alEmotional, intuitive, holistic
Rules and Laws
Scientific evidence & people‘s opinion
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6/10
Crowd engagement strategy
1) Host conversations/dialogues with stakeholders
• Standard format: participatory brainstorming
• Contributors: scientists, citizens, policy makers,…
• Virtual (webinar) & in-person meetings
• Going local: Member States, schools, conferences…
• Viral process: loosely coordinated, but with simple, shared rules
2) Capture content into an open, standard online platform (futurium)
• Based on a fixed meta-model (futures, policies,…) & workflow
• Enabling co-creation (wiki), voting, forecasting, back casting, mapping,…
• Automatic semantic annotation, data mining, correlation, fact-finding
• Agent-based gaming and simulation
emergent collective intelligence
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Futurium Data Model
Trend
Every European
Digital
Future
Future
Future
DAE Policy
A1 A101 AA
BA C
Futures (visions)
Policy Ideas
pillars
actions
Agents
p1 p7
2012 2020 2050
Policies:• Are expressed as S.M.A.R.T.
objectives• May be structured (e.g. pillars)• Atomic level: timed actions• Have a measurable impact • Other measurable attributes
(e.g. plausibility, innovation, …)
Futures:• Desirability (emotional view) • Likelihood (rational/scientific view)• Causality: antecedent->consequent• Forecasting vs. back casting• Challenges and Opportunities
Agents:• Stakeholders in broad sense (EC, MS,
Regions, Industry, Citizens…)• Implementers (those who execute
the actions)• Verifiers• Decision makers
Policy
AA
p p
AA
FutureFutureFuture
@? #
Discrete Objects of Collective Inquiry
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Co-Creation
• Bottom-up• Spontaneous• Emergent
Sense Making
• Top-Down• Structured• Convergent
Futurium
Foresight methodology
Reporting to decision makers
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Sense-making
Futurium co-creation
Sense-making
Sense-making
Asynchronous sense-making steps over a continuous online engagement process
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DigitalFutures
Futu
rium
Futu
rizens
Futures
120+ Events, 3000+ co-creators
30+ Webinars
~1800> Futurium members
Breaking into new policy making practices
Futurium model
20+ Requests for take-up
11 Themes
200+ Futures
1800+ Evidence items
Outcomes
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Stakeholders
ParticipatoryTools
Policy Makers
mine & visualise
mine & visualise
Social Media (Twitter, FB, G+,…)
Participate
Participate
Real world data
ParticipateParticipate
Data Gathering
Data Crawling
OpenData
KnowledgeHarvesting Tools
Futurium’s conceptual architecture
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Gaming, multi-agent simulations,…
Foresight tools: workflows, Delphi, back-cast diagrams…
Semantic tools: fact-finding, search, text mining, …
Data Mining, statistics, visual analytics
Basic data types: visions, policies,
evidence
Communities
MessagingEvents
Wiki
Blogs
Desirability Plausibility
SMART policy attributes
Impact
Library
Polls
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More features
1) Futurium is a e-Participation platform to enable
grassroots engagement into foresight
2) Content co-created on Futurium is informative rather
than deliberative
3) Suitable to support civic society engagement in line with
Art 11 of the Treaty
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More information
Paper: "The Futurium - a Foresight Platform for Evidence-Based and
Participatory Policymaking"
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=a
rticle&id=doi:10.1007/s13347-013-0108-9
The futurium platform:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/
Thanks!
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Background Slides
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eGovernment Action Plan
• Empower citizens and businesses
• Reinforce mobility in the Single Market
• Enable efficiency and effectiveness
• Create the necessary key enablers and pre-
conditions to make things happen
By 2015 50% of citizens and 80% of businesses should use eGovernment services.
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Case Study: Digital Futures, reflections to prepare for the renewal of the EU policy context in 2014
Futurium Sense Making
New European Commission
New European ParliamentSpring 2014
Autumn 2014
Inspired by long-term advances of digital technologies
"Hints"
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2015-2025 (?)
Policy Ideas
Visions2040-2050
EC mandates2010-2014 2015-2019
Barroso II
Policy Frameworks2010-2020 (Europe 2020)
Trends2020+
+ Anticipation
+ Evidence+ Participation
+ Agility
Open DataInternet
Foresight Approach: back-casting + scenario planning
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Policy choices
Futurium timeline
Oct 2012
Mar 2012Nov 2012
EP/EIF(futurium kick-off)
ICT2013Nov 2013
DAA DublinJun 2013
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11 Compelling themes