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Policy Cloud has released a new report on the Data Marketplace’s design and open specifications.

This report describes the initial design and specifications of the Policy Cloud Data Marketplace and how it will provide various assets in different domains to the wider research and innovation community.

It includes an analysis of relevant work already done by other European projects which can be used to create a baseline and starting point for the Policy Cloud Data Marketplace.

Simulations of Social Dynamics play an important role in public policy analysis and design as they help to estimate the effects that alternative policies can have on society. We argue for a tight integration of a novel generation of social dynamics meta-simulation tools in a policy development framework. Such tools provide a common, agent-based modeling and concurrent execution environment for creating and running such simulations. Furthermore, they enable reasoning about simulation outcomes by examining and ranking alternative policy objectives based on a set of criteria supplied by the designer. We describe our implementation of such an idea in Politika, our Elixir-based web framework for interactive, meta-simulation-based policy design and provide appropriate examples as part of the PolicyCLOUD EU research project.

Policy Cloud has published the first version of the report Cross-Sector Policy Lifecycle Management: Software Prototype, which will receive further updates during the project’s duration.

An academic paper covering some of the work on Policy Cloud by partner University of Piraeus has been published by IOS Press in Volume 281: Public Health and Informatics.