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Policy Simulation in Virtual Spaces

Coordinatore	IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD    more  Organization address address: IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel city: Haifa postcode: 31905 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Meirav Cognome: Carmon Email: send email Telefono: 97248296542 Fax: 97248296112
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Israel [IL]
Totale costo	3˙436˙205 €
EC contributo	2˙299˙998 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-4
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-01-01   -   2012-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD  Organization address address: IBM Haifa Labs, Haifa University Campus, Mount Carmel city: Haifa postcode: 31905 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Meirav Cognome: Carmon Email: send email Telefono: 97248296542 Fax: 97248296112	IL (Haifa)	coordinator	0.00
2	ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER SA  Organization address address: Rizariou city: ATHENS postcode: 15233 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Marylene Cognome: Garnier Email: send email Telefono: 302107000000 Fax: 302107000000	EL (ATHENS)	participant	0.00
3	ATOS SPAIN SA  Organization address address: Calle de Albarracin city: Madrid postcode: 28037 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Ana Maria Cognome: PINUELA MARCOS Email: send email Telefono: 34912148800 Fax: 34917543252	ES (Madrid)	participant	0.00
4	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V  Organization address address: Hansastrasse city: MUNCHEN postcode: 80686 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Stephan Cognome: Kollmer Email: send email Telefono: +49 2241 14 2082 Fax: +49 2241 14 2386	DE (MUNCHEN)	participant	0.00
5	HELLENIC PARLIAMENT  Organization address address: Vassilissis Sofias city: Athens postcode: 10021 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: DIMITRIS Cognome: KORYZIS Email: send email Telefono: 302104000000 Fax: 302104000000	EL (Athens)	participant	0.00
6	INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS  Organization address address: Patission Str. city: ATHINA postcode: 10682 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Yannis Cognome: Vassiliou Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 7724374 Fax: +30 210 7722527	EL (ATHINA)	participant	0.00
7	KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN  Organization address address: Oude Markt city: LEUVEN postcode: 3000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Tine Cognome: Heylen Email: send email Telefono: +32 16 326520 Fax: +32 16 326515	BE (LEUVEN)	participant	0.00
8	UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX  Organization address address: WIVENHOE PARK city: COLCHESTER postcode: CO4 3SQ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Shereen Cognome: Anderson Email: send email Telefono: +44 1206 872169 Fax: +44 1206 873894	UK (COLCHESTER)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

Positiv Spaces (Spaces) aims to provide novel technologies and instruments that will allow government bodies to measure public opinion on a large scale and seize the outcomes of prospective policy measures by leveraging the power of the communities. From the Spaces perspective, Virtual Spaces (VS) form a vast reserve of group knowledge that, once aggregated and properly processed, can be incorporated in the policy making process.nCurrently, government agencies seek to refine their policy making process by assessing the impact of prospective policies to the society prior to their implementation. Traditional tools for this include polls and forums, but these have limited capabilities and are inadequate for purpose variety of reasons. Spaces aims to address this issue by using VSs as testbeds for policy simulation. Contemporary VSs can be viewed as micro-societies with dynamics resembling those of real world societies, the most evolved having virtual economies as well as regulations analogous to a legislative framework. Moreover, VSs are controlled environments in which all parameters of users' reactions and interactions can be tracked. Spaces will provide governments with tools for testing their legislation in a number of virtual environments as well as data mining tools for tracking the users' reactions. We will develop technologies for aggregating, filtering and analyzing this information, as well as recommender and reputation systems that will ensure that only reliable sources of data are taken into account. Finally we will represent this information in an appropriate fashion that will enable government bodies to draw conclusions on the potential outcomes of the policies they propose, taking into account the analogies between VS and real life concepts. We believe that the Spaces platform will constitute a powerful tool for testing policies and forecasting their impact and will assist government bodies to include the public opinion in the policy making process.