Ubiquitous Participation Platform for Ubiquitous Participation Platform for Policy MakingPolicy Making

UbiPOLUbiPOL

Karim AL-YAFIRA, ISEing Research group

Brunel Business School, Brunel University

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AgendaAgenda

UbiPOL Motivation & ConceptAims & ObjectivesUbiPOL ArchitectureUbiPOL ConsortiumExpected Impacts

UbiPOL ConceptUbiPOL Concept

Low participation due to low awareness of political issues by citizens

Intervening into citizens’ every day life to increase awareness of political issues that affect their life.

Context awareness to find most relevant political issues at the right time and right place

Project AimsProject Aims

1- UbiPOL aims to provide a ubiquitous participation platform that allows citizens to participate in the policy making process during their everyday life through providing relevant policies and others opinions that affect their life wherever they are located

2- To provide policy makers with the necessary intelligent tools to observe citizens’ reactions and behaviours through the policy making life cycle

Project objectivesProject objectives

To develop an executable framework to model the policy making process

To develop a Ubiquitous Participation Platform

To develop generic UbiPOL services and applications that can be re-used for ubiquitous participation of citizens in policy making processes in different cultural contexts and different sectors

To validate the platform and services via field trials

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Opinion /Policy Base

Opin/PolMining Engine

PLMInstance

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ProcessEngine

UbiPOLServer

UbiPOL Backend Components & UbiPOL Backend Components & ElementsElements

IdentityMgt

External POI baseInterface v

UbiPOL consortiumUbiPOL consortium

Brunel Univ. (UK) – Pervasive computing, coordination

Sabanci Univ. (TR) – Opinion miningCorvinus Univ. of Budapest (HU) – OntologyBasar soft (TR) – Navigation on mobile devices PDMFC (PT) – Scalability Fraunhofer (DE) – Identity & security IPASA – Mobile computingEASYC – Field trial in the UK (South Yorkshire)Turksat (TR) – Field trial in Turkey (Istanbul)

WP3 (PDMFC) Ubiquitous

Participation Platform

WP4 (BASA) UbiPOL services and

applications

CORV

BRUNEL

EASYC

TURKSAT

SU

PDMFC

BASAR

Tracking svc.

Authentication svc.

Retrieval/notifi. svc.

Knowldg sharing svc.

WP5 (EASY) Concept Evaluation

Evaluation metrics

Evaluation

Applications

Ontology & repository

Security &identity

Mobile computing

Scalable server

Map data processing

WP2 (BRUNEL) PMWF Model

WF Modeling

Validation

FOKUS

IPASA

Privacy/ data mining

Tracking engine

Impact of UbiPOLImpact of UbiPOLImproved empowerment and engagement in policy making processes

Increased trust of citizens through transparency and feedback

More efficient collection of feedback to continuously improve governance

UbiPOL

Increased awareness of policies via penetration into citizen’s usual life

Increased transparency via tracking service (opinion tag)

Fresh opinion collection (No loss as it is captured when it is created)

Thank You!!Thank You!!

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