An Ontology for G2G Collaboration in Public Policy Making,Implementation and Evaluation |
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Authors: | Euripidis N Loukis |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of Aegean, Karlovassi, Island of Samos, 83200, Greece |
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Abstract: | This paper concerns the development and use of ontologies for electronically supporting and structuring the highest-level
function of government: the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies for the big and complex problems that
modern societies face. This critical government function usually necessitates extensive interaction and collaboration among
many heterogeneous government organizations (G2G collaboration) with different backgrounds, mentalities, values, interests
and expectations, so it can greatly benefit from the use of ontologies. In this direction initially an ontology of public
policy making, implementation and evaluation is described, which has been developed as part of the project ICTE-PAN of the
Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the European Commission, based on sound theoretical foundations mainly
from the public policy analysis domain and contributions of experts from the public administrations of four European Union
countries (Denmark, Germany, Greece and Italy). It is a ‘horizontal’ ontology that can be used for electronically supporting
and structuring the whole lifecycle of a public policy in any vertical (thematic) area of government activity; it can also
be combined with ‘vertical’ ontologies of the specific vertical (thematic) area of government activity we are dealing with.
In this paper is also described the use of this ontology for electronically supporting and structuring the collaborative public
policy making, implementation and evaluation through ‘structured electronic forums’, ‘extended workflows’, ‘public policy
stages with specific sub-ontologies’, etc., and also for the semantic annotation, organization, indexing and integration of
the contributions of the participants of these forums, which enable the development of advanced semantic web capabilities
in this area. |
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Keywords: | G2G (Government-to-Government) e-Government G2G (Government-to-Government) Collaboration public policy ontology semantic web |
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