How should governments improve their policy performance?

Working with citizens, civil society organisations, businesses and other stakeholders while delivering concrete improvements in policy outcomes and quality of public services are two fundamental and viable strategies. Are there others you could suggest?

Your input on current demands for Open Government in Policy Modelling

The OCOPOMO project partners believe transparency, accountability, openness and participation are key issues. What is your opinion on the matter?

What OCOPOMO can do

The OCOPOMO project may not turn antagonists into collaborators or make enemies into friends. But it will:

PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK where cooperation and trust among policy-concerned parties can be maximised;
PIONEER AN “OFF THE MAINSTREAM” APPROACH to policy modelling, combined with e-government tools and advanced ICT technologies;
ENABLE YOU to bring precision and clarity to your arguments and to understand those of other stakeholder groups;
OFFER AN AGENT-BASED MODEL of macroeconomic relations encouraging stakeholders to take into account shocks and surprises from the wider policy environment.

What is the OCOPOMO project all about?

OCOPOMO - Open COllaboration for POlicy MOdelling aims at defining and demonstrating a new "off the mainstream" approach to policy modelling. The project will integrate lessons and techniques from complexity science, agent based social simulation, foresight scenario analysis and stakeholder participation in order to use models for exploring the effects of policies, so that understanding of alternative points of view can be achieved by all parties.

Policy operators and stakeholders collaborate in scenario development. Based on this, a macroeconomic agent-based simulation model will be developed, visualized and simulated through ICT and tested in pilot experiences. In a nutshell, we will develop a software supporting decision-makers in shaping policies with stakeholders.