[p2p-research] EU FP7 Public Sector of the Future

[Samuel Rose]

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> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:06:59 +0100
> From: Phoebe <pvm.doc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [p2p-research] EU FP7 Public Sector of the Future
> To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
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>        List <p2presearch at listcultures.org>,    briand
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> Hi!
>
> Thanks for the emails, and I've emailed all on the FP7 googledocument but I
> can also create a separate one.
>
> In response to the points below, the European Commission looks for specific
> proposals, and we'll need to narrow down the remit considerably. Michel's
> suggestion for 'public/state support for social innovation by civil society'
> is a broad category that sort of fits in to what is asked within the Public
> Sector of the Future remit, and I remind him and other participants that the
> *FP7 Cooperation Work Programme: Socio-Economic Sciences and the Human*ities
> document
>
> http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=253&act_code=SSH&ID_ACTIVITY=8#infopack
>
> sets out clearly what is expected. I emphasised this section (more pasted
> below):
>
>>Research should:
> - Assess comparatively and, as much as possible quantitatively, the impact
> of these "New Public Management" reforms on some important policy domains
> such as, for instance, education, health, water, energy and transport, and
> study whether they have been effective in delivering services compared to
> previous policies and taking into account and responding to the needs of
> citizens/users for social cohesion.
>
> Finding and making comparative analyses toward public support for social
> innovation will be appropriate as a part of the proposal, but we need to
> narrow our focus to aspects of the public sector i.e. 'important policy
> domains such as, for instance, education, health, water, energy and
> transport'.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Phoebe


This begs the question:

Is there a way to conduct impact assessment research like that
discussed above, using p2p methods?

If so, this could further the cause of P2P foundation by delivering
new methods for EU to use for researching policy impact.

Also, would EU accept research indicators that might in general be
outside of the "frame" that large governments tend to use to assess
impact of their actions and policies.

Could we (as P2P foundation) argue for the creation of a policy
research framework that:

1. Utilizes peer produced, and distributed data from many, many sources

2. Allows localized groups to *define* what *their* needs are (a
plausible route being through p2p mediums)

3. Returns comparative and quantitative data that is viewable *both*
through the lens of EU's criteria, *and* through the lenses of the
people affected by the policy (which means that there is affordance
for them to define local criteria)

4. Creates a persistent ongoing, adaptable infrastructure for
continuing this analysis in the future, driven localized groups
defining their needs.

basically, we put demands on EU to allow the people they are studying
to define what "progress" is and is not for themselves. We'd also ask
that the research output be publicly available in open standards-based
ways. This creates a p2p generated research infrastructure for public
policy




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