The Amsterdam Declaration Platform

Tech4i² (in cooperation with Ton Zijstra and James Burke) invited by the World Congress on IT organisers has designed and deployed a platform to support and dynamise the Amsterdam Declaration which calls on all stakeholders to deliver the ambitious goals of enhancing economic growth, reducing greenhouse gases, promoting quality of life and consumer confidence, and ensuring that these benefits reach a global impact.

Let’s make it happen website launches an open collaboration with all stakeholders. It enables everyone to comment on the Declaration text (using commentpress) and add inspiring projects that aim at achieving the Declaration goals. These projects are visualised on a dynamic Google Map.

Crossroad

Tech4i² along with project partners: National Technical University of Athens- coordinator (GR); European Projects & Management Agency CZ; University Koblenz-Landau (DE) and EC DG Joint Research Centre – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (ES) work together on delivering a roadmap for ICT research in the field of governance and policy modelling.

That research will be supported by the contribution of the results deriving from other FP7 projects in the area of eGovernment and Policy Making.

The project aim is to drive the identification of emerging technologies, new governance models and novel application scenarios in the area of participation, electronic governance and policy modelling, leading to the structuring of a beyond the state-of-the-art research agenda, fully embraced by research and practice communities.More information on the project on Crossroad website, LinkendIn and Twitter.

Padgets

Padgets project aims at bringing together two well established domains, the mashup architectural approach of web 2.0 for creating web applications (gadgets) and the methodology of system dynamics in analyzing complex system behaviour.

The objective is to design, develop and deploy a prototype toolset that will allow policy makers to graphically create web applications that will be deployed in the environment of underlying knowledge in Web 2.0 media.

For this reason, the project introduces the concept of Policy Gadget (Padget) – similarly to the approach of gadget applications in web 2.0 – to represent a micro web application that combines a policy message with underlying group knowledge in social media (in the form of content and user activities) and interacts with end users in popular locations (such as social networks, blogs, forums, news sites, etc) in order to get and convey their input to policy makers.

Enterprise 2.0. study

Tech4i² along with partners (Headshift and IDC) works on a study on Entreprise 2.0.  This research aims at:

•  providing a clear definition of Enterprise 2.0, describing the market and the positioning of EU industry, also in comparison with the US and Asia;
• -analysing the take-up of Enterprise 2.0, the organizational requirements, and the role on the transition to a  knowledge based low-carbon economy;
• collecting evidence on its macro-economic impact, as a market opportunity for the European Software industry and as a productivity tool for European business;
• identifying and analysing both the direct and contextual challenges, including the need for Next Generation Access and the legal barriers.