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Developing an Ecology of Data for Policy Practice: The PolicyCLOUD Experience and its Assessment

Solving practical policy problems demands data that typically are of various types. Thus, policy makers have to manage various types of data sources and multiple scientific methods and methodologies necessary to clean, filter, analyze, validate, and possibly augment the datasets as they are ingested. Such processing is mandatory if the data is to provide value.

PolicyCLOUD is an ongoing EU-funded research project that delivers an innovative data-centric approach to policy practice. This goal is being reached through a cloud-based ecosystem that supports data-driven policy management in an efficient manner that is both legally and ethically sound[2]. This ecosystem consists of a unique, integrated cloud-based environment that targets easy and efficient ingestion and use of data for the sake of policy creation, monitoring, and assessment.