In a Nutshell Comparative studies and a knowledge base will be developed to provide a useful body of knowledge. Community building activities shall bring together the different actors at various occasions via on- and offline interaction.eGovPoliNet: The Policy CommunityeGPN ID-d7aa0f1d-fe85-4ba6-99d5-3bc3c9eb36e7Researchers PractitionersCrossoverin collaboration with Crossover To bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and backgrounds to work together and share and learn from each other about projects successfully executed, theories and methods applied, tools available to support governance and policy development. ID-e07abfed-2844-4871-9f43-5d9ff26c7867Transparency Collaboration Participatory GovernanceDigital GovernanceStrengthen scientific, technological and social research and practice excellence in digital public governance and policy modelling ID-7913fef0-0317-4e8e-b8b2-d3c983c1748eEuropeThe overarching objective of the Policy Community is to strengthen scientific, technological and social research and practice excellence in digital public governance and policy modelling by integrating the research and practice capacities of individuals and organisations spread across Europe and worldwide, including lessons and innovative approaches of the existing projects and future projects to be funded along the thematic priority of the EC FP 7 calls in the field, as well as research and practical projects from all over the world. Co-operation & Coordination Foster co-operation and coordination of research and practice ID-45f32615-9a4f-48af-a2c6-7e209bb6d7bc 1 The Policy Community aims to counteract the fragmentation of RTD in the field of ICT solutions for Governance and Policy Modelling and to respond to the needs for reaching out and consolidating solutions and methods in this emerging field beyond the EU level. Therefore, the Policy Community will foster co-operation and coordination of research and practice to enable them to address issues they could not solve alone. It will establish a public body of knowledge accessible to all. Through the collaborative and open approach, The Policy Community will move forward by bringing in more and more actors in the field therewith creating an open dialogue around the globe on pertinent issues of ICT supported policy development and open governance. Network Regular Interaction The establishment of a network that is interacting regularly via online and offline international and multi-disciplinary constituency building events TBD Knowledge Portal Content The set-up and growing of a community knowledge portal with concrete content production and news items and collection and integration of content through third party websites TBD R&D Leverage R&D towards a more transparent, collaborative, and participatory governance and policy modelling ID-8f2a351a-0949-43cd-a1e0-babd6d34f984 2 European Council The Policy Community will leverage R&D towards a more transparent, collaborative, and participatory governance and policy modelling through establishing an international community, which will exchange and advance existing approaches and solutions in the respective fields. With this overall objective, the Policy Community will provide a major contribution to the strategic goals set by the European Council, in the Digital Agenda for Europe and in the Horizon 2020. Studies & Analysis The performance of studies and comparative analysis to identify research, practice and development projects and good practice examples concerning modelling and simulating, as well as understanding and visualising of social behaviour TBD Research Roadmap The creation of an International Research Roadmap on ICT tools for governance and Policy-Modelling TBD Projects ID-1c0c8763-437b-4a2d-9d72-2aa2fb9a38453eGovPoliNet and Crossover aim to foster co-operation and coordination of research and practice to address issues that could not be solved alone. In this spirit, the projects have the key objective to strengthen scientific, technological and social research and practice excellence in digital public governance and policy modelling by:Research & Practiceintegrating the research and practice capacities of individuals and organisations spread across Europe and worldwide ID-e31a55fd-916e-4a46-970a-1ebfad93c5713.1 Lessons & Approaches including lessons and innovative approaches of the existing projects and future projects ID-6bfc8e7b-0cd2-45ee-a720-050459a12f1a 3.2 Case Studies In depth case studies on specific applications of ICT solutions for policy modelling TBD Content, Handbook & Conferencesproduction of multimedia content, practical handbook & high-level policy conferences ID-b9243000-5a94-478f-868f-653a68d107b03.32014-01-21http://www.policy-community.eu/in-a-nutshellOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net