Governance Ethics Handbook for Evidence-Based Policymaking Published

A new policy brief for evidence-based policymaking has been launched by the Data-Driven Policy Cluster.

Five H2020 e-governance projects have joined efforts in the Data-Driven Policy Cluster to promote the use of European cloud infrastructures for public administrations and policy making. The Cluster is made up of AI4PublicPolicy, Decido, DUET, IntelComp, and Policy Cloud.

The policy brief is a result of the Governance Ethics Track at the event, Evidence-Based Policymaking in Europe Summit 2021 where core ethical issues were identified and discussed in the context of European research projects aiming to develop policy makers’ ability to make key policy decisions, based on objective criteria, derived from real-world data. These issues included: ensuring the relevance of collected and processed data, the management of potential biases within datasets or processing algorithms, and the transparency, explainability, and security of the data analysis and visualisation process.

The session also included the presentation of strategies implemented in each of the relevant projects to ensure these and other issues are efficiently addressed, so as to simultaneously protect the trustworthiness and effectiveness of the solutions pursued by each project.

In this resulting policy brief, the most significant ideas and conclusions reached during the track are presented clearly, and a number of policy recommendations based on the experience gathered within the different projects are presented.
Two other joint policy briefs will be published based on the other tracks covering Policy Prediction, and Co-Creation and Stakeholder Engagement.

The policy brief has been published openly on Zenodo here.

Our role

As communications lead of Policy Cloud, Trust-IT instigated the formation of this project cluster, upon the request of the European Commission. Trust-IT had a lead role in organising and managing the writing of the Governance Ethics policy brief, along with editing and graphically-designing the brief ready for publishing.

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