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SENSE4US Generic Presentation: available online!

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Interested in the SENSE4US and you would like to get the gist of it at a glance? Download the Generic Presentation of the project!

SENSE4US participation in the 49th ICA Conference, 6th – 9th September 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden

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The topic of this year’s ICA Conference was “Unleashing mobile government – addressing societal challenges”. For this 49th ICA Conference, the Board and Programme Committee, the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and eGovlab enriched the four day event programme with interactive workshops and meetings and have included among the participants from many countries, representatives from the industry.

Registered participants came from public administrations and organizations from Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, ENISA, Estonia, EU, Finland, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Mozambique, OECD, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, The Netherlands, The World Bank, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and USA.

SENSE4US was presented on the 7th of September during the Session II:  INTEGRATION OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES WITH CITIZEN - CENTRIC APPROACHES. The steady integration of mobile technologies into the everyday lives of people, businesses and governments provides a new context for policy-making for governments and can give rise to new forms of engagement and relationships in the public sphere. Smart phones in combination with easily accessible apps create opportunities for a fast and wide penetration of digital public and social innovations ­– and not simply a support for existing government processes. As a result, new approaches are needed to support a shift from governments anticipating citizens’ and business’s needs (citizen-centric approaches) to citizens and businesses determining their own needs and addressing them in partnership with governments (citizen-driven approaches). This session explored different ways of coping with this new policy-landscape. More information about this conference and its speakers’ presentations are available at: http://www.ica-it.org/

SENSE4US Research Brief: available online!

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For all those researchers that may be tasked with researching a policy subject that they are not experts in, and they need a quick way of seeing the key factors and citizen groups that affect, or are affected by, a policy option, SENSE4US can offer a solution. Download the Research Brief and find out what is the solution offered that can address your research challenges and which are the benefits you gain with SENSE4US!

SENSE4US presented at “Leibniz meets Parliament” event, 3rd September 2015, Düsseldorf, Germany

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“Leibniz meets Parliament” is a one-day event that frequently takes place within German parliaments. The objective is to present and discuss the current research of the Leibniz institutions to decision-makers, and to make use of the research results in daily work life situations. Hence the Leibniz group organizes the events and the last one took place in Düsseldorf, in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on the 3rd of December 2014. With a couple of weeks forerun all members of the parliament received a cover letter including a list of the topics that were offered by the researchers of the participated Leibniz institutes. In total six MPs requested a meeting regarding the topic “Can Open Data and Twitter benefit decision-making?” proposed by Timo Wandhöfer, our project partner from GESIS.

As state of the art technology Dr. Wandhöfer presented the SENSE4US toolbox with the focus on the last current development of SentiCircles, from the Open University. This tool allows a “different view” regarding a bunch of tweets. Starting with a Twitter collection (e.g. search-term “electric car”) the user gets a list of core terms (e.g. companies, technologies, users, etc.) combined with the Twitter users’ sentiment. A second level shows all of the related terms within the bunch of collected tweets.

The general outcome of interviews is that Twitter analysis and Open Data are becoming more and more relevant data sources for the information process. But it is highly relevant to simplify the user interface, combine different filter options and make the tools’ service as transparent as possible. Concerning Open Data more relevant data need to be published and interlinked. The proposed SENSE4US approach of making use of the Linked Open Data cloud (e.g. the machine-readable version of Wikipedia) is seen as trendsetting.