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 developers of applications that make use of open data, and the end users of those applications such as policy makers, journalists and citizens…

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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 Collaborative Governance and web 2.0 (Scott Formann-Roe), Argument Visualization (David Price), Visual Analytics, Visualization and Policy simulation (Andrew Vande Moere), Serious Gaming (Igor Mayer) and Open Data (Luigi Reggi)…

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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 has received 13 high quality contributions in the following fields: Policy Modelling; Collaborative Governance and web 2.0; Argument Visualization; Visual Analytics, Visualization and Policy simulation; Serious Gaming and Open Data.

A decision for appointing up to 5 researcher and practitioners as members of the CROSSOVER Animators Committee will be taken before the end of February…

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

Please finish your submission within the extended deadline. (You can also edit your submission if you need to)…

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“Global communities and roadmap for next-generation policy-making”

The CROSSOVER project consortium seeks to appoint up to 5 researcher and practitioneers as members of the CROSSOVER Animators Committee, in order to stimulate global collaboration and peer-to-peer exchange between practitioners, researchers and public officials in the field. Each animator will provide 1 online contribution per month along the whole of 2012, including research questions, case studies, problems and solutions. Beside the prestige and the opportunity to shape the European research agenda, each member of the Animators Committee will receive a lump sum of 2500 EUR for participation in the networking activities of the project...

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The conference “New Thinking about Global Challenges”, organized by the research network Global Systems Dynamics & Policy and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) .The conference aimed at fostering the dialogue between the community of scholars and the wide variety of stakeholders involved in the field of global systems, as well as to present research projects and ICT tools aimed at facing global challenges. During the conference scholars presented some tool dealing with advances in economic theory, such as Eurace@Unibi Model, which is an agent-based macroeconomic model suitable for economic policy analysis...

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The GLEaM - Global Epidemic and Mobility Model is a discrete stochastic epidemic computational model developed with the joint effort of Northeastern University (Boston, USA) and the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation (Turin, Italy). The simulation engine of the GLEaM model provides advice in understanding historical epidemics, identifying key mechanisms and spreading patterns, assessing the role of human mobility and the efficacy of containment strategies, as well as forecasting future scenarios...

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In a period of financial and economic turmoil there are growing concerns and awareness about the role, the tasks and the accountability of international financial institutions. In this view it is very important for technocratic actors such as the European Central Bank to be able to justify their own mission which is pivotal for the well being of the public at global level...

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