D6.15 USE CASES ADAPTATION & RECOMMENDATIONS M36

This document is the third of the series of deliverables that detail the evaluation process. In particular, this report details the outcomes of the evaluation of the PolicyCLOUD technologies and the benefits they provide to the use cases obtained in the co-creation & evaluation workshops carried out along the 3rd year of the project. This document gathers how the present project can evolve in the future and next steps to follow.

D6.5 [10] explained the implementation of the evaluation methodology differentiating between Impact Analysis (IA) evaluations and Quality Validations (QV). As an introduction, the Public Policies Implementation Process was described, considering how the PolicyCLOUD project contributes to it at the different stages of the process, also presenting the way the policy definition and implementation process is linked to the evaluation methodology proposed.

In D6.14 [12] the most important improvement from the first deliverable of the series, Deliverable D6.5, was the implementation and the results of the evaluation for the different uses cases. The implementation was carried out during different workshops for each use case. The impact analysis reported by the policy makers, highlighted that the main problems they face, are lack of data, inaccurate data and lack of standards. This is a major barrier to implementing new policies in any field. In addition, data is decentralised and fragmented and very difficult to access. All this makes the quality of data available to policy makers from different sources, very low and unreliable.

The present deliverable (D6.15) reviews the evaluation method, including some new questions, and presents a new revision from policy makers gathered in the co-creation workshops carried out during the third year of the project. D6.15 follows the same structure of D6.14 and explains the results obtained in those workshops.

In the third year’s evaluation, valuable feedback has been received regarding the quality assessment of our platform. The system has been thoroughly evaluated and the most important use cases have been successfully implemented. While the feedback has been generally positive, it is remarkable that there is still work to be done in order to turn our platform into a production-ready tool that is suitable for use by policy makers. To successfully market the PolicyCLOUD system in the future, a commitment has been made to continuously enhance the platform to make it as efficient and helpful as possible.

It is significant to note that due to Camden's withdrawal in March 2022, the London use case could not be assessed during this final stage of the project.