Call for Papers: Special issue on “Policy Making and Public Information Systems”
Posted October 30, 2015
International Journal of Public Information Systems (IJPIS)
ISSN 1653-4360
Policy making is a complex activity since it involves striking a balance between legal requirements, intended outcomes, the limits of scientific knowledge at any given time, and the public response to the policy. Whilst incorporating popular input into the process is crucial to the legitimacy and acceptability of the outcome, it is also desirable to match citizen’s expectations and demands to the policy. Questions of great concern for policy makers then become how to base policy on the existing knowlegde base? How to trust the sufficiency of data, its complexity and representation, as well as what extent the impact of a policy can be predicted before it is implemented? The full impact of policy decisions is not always obvious at the time the policy is formulated or enacted, and any short-comings of the policy become known when it is too late to change it. In this stage, policy makers and analysts alike wrestle with how to intelligently filter information according to relevance, relationship and provenance. Of special interest for this special issue is how publicly available data or information systems aimed for the public are used, can be used, should be or should not be used in the policy making process ranging from the local to the international arena. Papers focusing on the following areas are therefore of interest for this call:
- Integrity and privacy issues in information gathering for policy analysis
- Search technologies for information retrieval and filtering and sense making of data
- Trust and reliability concerns of public data or public information systems within the context of policy making
- Legal and regulatory aspects of exploiting public data and public information systems for policy making
- Multi-modality of information sources, methods for information aggregation and information fusion for policy making
- Values and motivations underlying the use or non-use of public data and public information systems for policy making
- Decision support technologies for policy analysis enabled by interaction with public information systems
- Citizen science
- Crowdsourcing governance
- Innovative techniques for data visualization, simulation and sense-making within the context of Big Open Linked Data (BOLD)
- Use cases and case studies
Submission deadline: April 30th 2016
Accepted papers to be published during 2016.
Contact editors: Aron Larsson and Somya Joshi, [email protected], [email protected]
This special issue is an initiative of IJPIS in collaboration with the EU FP7 project “Data insights for policy makers & citizens”, www.sense4us.eu