Crossover conference on 17-18 June, Dublin, is announced on the Digital Agenda events page This conference will explore the emerging technologies an...

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On the 17th and 18th of June 2013 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, the Crossover project (http://www.crossover-project.eu/), together with UNDP CI...

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The Semantic Interoperability Conference 2013 - SEMIC 2013 - offers a unique opportunity to explore and discuss how Public Administrations can use sem...

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On 24th May 2013, Dr Gianluca Misuraca, Senior Scientist at the European Commission, JRC-IPTS, and a member of CROSSOVER, will present the CROSSOVER R...

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This June, policymakers and techies from around Europe will come together in Dublin to discuss how technology can be used to improve the policy-making...

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The webinar & the foresight exercise of the Futurium platform of the European Commission took place 26 April 2013 at 4pm CET. This webinar is part...

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In preparation of the Crossover conference on Policy-Making 2.0, to set the tune, Mr. David Osimo, key partner of Crossover, started interviewing some...

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Today, 26/4/2013, Dr. Andrea Bassi gave a presentation on the Future of Energy Policy. In this “Future of Energy Policy: online seminar", co-org...

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Crossover delegate Dr Gianluca Misuraca, Senior Scientist at the European Commission JRC-IPTS has been invited as one of the speaker for the internati...

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Crossover representative, Andrea Bassi, will be delivering a webinar on April 26th 2013 to discuss the future of energy policy. The online seminar w...

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On the 17th and 18th of June 2013 at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland the final Crossover Project conference will take place. The conference will expl...

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Please join us at Trinity College Dublin on June 18 for Crossover’s Final Conference:  Policy Making 2.0.  This one day event is free...

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Many open data initiatives forget to include the basic facts about the government itself. An interesting blog, where you can read more about here.

What is the Threshold 21 Model? Threshold 21 is a simulation tool that has been designed to support comprehensive, integrated long-term national deve...

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The European Commission launched today an online public consultation on research and innovation in ICT-driven public sector innovation. The answers wi...

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As a final deliverable to the Crossover project, four case studies have been selected and will be integrated into the roadmap. These case studies are ...

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Crossover delegate Dr Gianluca Misuraca, Senior Scientist at the European Commission JRC-IPTS, was recently invited to a workshop in Dublin which aime...

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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Practices (OEP) have recently become hot topics, not only for educational researchers, but also for policy makers...

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On Tuesday 19th February 2013, Dr. Gianluca Misuraca, Senior Scientist at the European Commission's JRC-IPTS presented the CROSSOVER project and ...

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Last month, Crossover representative Francesco Mureddu participated in a Masters of Networks workshop. The workshop brought together cutting edge poli...

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On the 29th of January 2013 the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco organised the 2nd eGovernment Forum providing a platform for over 500 experts, go...

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Reflections on a very interesting policy modelling workshop and how the Web is being used to create new tools.

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The CROSSOVER project consortium  seeks to appoint up to 20.000€ to a subcontractor that will organize a conference on “State-of-the-a...

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CROSSOVER will be presented at the "eGovernment Forum 2013", organised by the Kingdom of Morocco. Dr. Gianluca Misuraca, Senior Scientist at the Europ...

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The Crossover roadmap has recently been published in StratML – one of the largest portals that provide access to strategic plans, performance pl...

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The Crossover roadmap has been published in the application ‘Making Speeches Talk’ in a simplified version. This version allows people to ...

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1. I am working to propose the idea of Policy Making 2.0 in cooperation with the Consiglio regionale del Piemonte (Piedmont is the region of Torino, w...

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New and innovative tools and technologies are key to improving public policy making. This has been highlighted by the EU’s new research roadmap ...

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What is network science?  Network science is an emerging discipline that uses tools from pure mathematics (such as graph theory, matrix algebr...

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Many EU Member States have, or are developing, policies around the design and management of URIs as persistent identifiers for all manner of objects and concepts as an aid to interoperability. In the US, StratML is an example of a text and XML-centric approach to interoperability that doesn't place specific importance on the careful design and maintenance of URIs. Is the Atlantic widening?

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The Right to information and transparency in the digital age: Policy, Tools and Practices   Workshop organized by Liberation Technology Progra...

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Governments need their own linked data working groups if they are to realise the full potential of data as part of government itself as opposed to simply a reporting mechanism.

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Are the ideas and working practices of the open source software community useful to collaborative policy making? Possibly...

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A new survey has been launched alongside the EU research roadmap to help determine what tools are answering the needs of policy makers. From simulatio...

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New and innovative tools and technologies are key to improving public policy making. This has been highlighted by the EU’s new research roadmap ...

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The ICEGOV series of conference is organized by the United Nations University (IIST Centre for Electronic Governance, Macao, SAR) and it focuses on th...

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In particular ICEGOV aims at disseminating results and engaging practitioners and policy makers at an international level. The ICEGOV series of confe...

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The Fusepool project develops the first integrated linked data pool and invites innovation-driven professionals and SMEs to put it to the test –...

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Social media, open data, and ICT-based forms of public participation, transparency and accountability hold promise for improving democratic processes ...

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What is Health Infoscape? Illness is often associated with being an isolated event, but analysis from MIT Senseable City Lab and General Electric in ...

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What is Civic Evolution? Civic Evolution is an online community engagement tool, which helps citizens create community-written proposals in order to ...

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The Transatlantic Research on Policy Modeling Workshop aims to collect and share knowledge on sectorial and integrated modeling frameworks for policy ...

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What is Social Simulator? In the first 24 hours after a crisis or PR disaster there is approximately a fivefold increase in questions, discussions an...

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 EU research roadmap opens the way to better, more open policy-making At a time where the world global economy relies on the quality of judgemen...

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The first newsletter of CROSSOVER project is  now available. In this newsletter, we describe the CROSSOVER’s vision and goals in order to r...

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ICT is changing policy making. Technologies for  open data, opinion mining, collaboration, visualization, modelling and simulation promise to ena...

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 On the 12th and the 13th of July 2012 I took part at a Seminar on Social Games for Civic Engagement at the Social Innovation Park in Bilbao, whi...

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The Crossover project was among those represented at the Samos Summit on Open Data and Interoperability for Governance, Industry and Society at the beginning of this month. This gave me a chance to reflect on a series of conversations held at a string of open data events over the summer.

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A concise report on the first Crossover Workshop on the Uses of Open Data, highlighting some of the recurring themes.

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This document describes the organization, running and outcome of the workshop Using Open Data: Policy Modeling, Citizens’ Empowerment,...

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Papers received: 42 No. accepted for presentation: 34 Lightning talks plus other short interventions: 15 Registered participants: 70 No. c...

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The objective of the W3C Using Open Data Workshop, being run as part of the EU-funded Crossover Project, is to provide a joint discussion forum for de...

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The consortium appointed 7 animators. 2 in the field of Policy Modelling (Alberto Cottica and Pietro Terna) and 1 per each in the fields of Collaborat...

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Regarding the call for animators on policy making 2.0 “Global communities and roadmap for next-generation policy-making”, the consortium h...

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As there are many inquiries and requests, the CROSSOVER Animators Committee has decided to extend the submission deadline to February 8th, 2012. Plea...

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“Global communities and roadmap for next-generation policy-making” The CROSSOVER project consortium seeks to appoint up to 5 researcher...

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