ABSTRACT
Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory platforms and citizen science to explore complex governance challenges in domains that include education, environment, and health.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|21 pages
Introduction
part II|59 pages
The Basics
chapter 4|21 pages
Visualization Meets Policy Making
part III|103 pages
Analysis
chapter 8|17 pages
Policy Informatics with Small System Dynamics Models
part IV|77 pages
Administration
chapter 11|24 pages
Governance Informatics
chapter 13|18 pages
Policy Modeling of Large-Scale Social Systems
part V|67 pages
Governance Infrastructure
chapter 15|18 pages
Synthetic Information Environments for Policy Informatics
chapter 16|16 pages
Participatory Simulation as a Tool of Policy Informatics
chapter 18|14 pages
Breaking the Silos of Silence
part VI|19 pages
Conclusion