Effect on analytical policy capacity of non-traditional data use across case studies
| Case name | Country | Policy cycle stage | Effect on analytical policy capacity | Main reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| decidim.barcelona | Spain | Agenda-setting | Systemic: public opinion influences agenda | Peña-López (2017) |
| Organisational: meta.decidim, a community with representatives of citizens and civil actors, is responsible for designing and updating decidim.barcelona | ||||
| Individual: training sessions by public officers to enable citizens’ e-participation; data analysis and aggregation for the prioritisation of policy agenda by part of the Municipality | ||||
| Call detail records data for COVID-19 response | Gambia | Policy formulation/decision-making | Systemic: not clear/accessible | Arai et al. (2021) |
| Organisational: collaboration between Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA), The Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS), Ministry of Health, mobile network operators; a secure file transfer protocol (FTP) enables transfer of data from third parties | ||||
| Individual: use of the Hadoop platform for distributed processing of large data sets; strengthening of data collection protocols | ||||
| Automated verification of medical prescriptions | Portugal | Policy implementation | Systemic: not clear/accessible | AlgorithmWatch (2020) |
| Organisational: improved data collection through the electronic medical prescription system; access to an integrated data system of the Public National Health Service (NSN) | ||||
| Individual: data processing by part of Control and Monitoring Centre | ||||
| Santa Monica Well-being Project | USA | Policy evaluation | Systemic: direct access to publicly available data through social media platform | OECD (2017) |
| Organisational: enhanced connection with non-governmental institutes (i.e., research units) responsible for developing measurement | ||||
| Individual: use of the Wellbeing Index as a framework for planning the budgets and programmatic priorities; commissioned/outsourced data collection and aggregation activities |
| Case name | Country | Policy cycle stage | Effect on analytical policy capacity | Main reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| decidim.barcelona | Spain | Agenda-setting | ||
| Call detail records data for COVID-19 response | Gambia | Policy formulation/decision-making | ||
| Automated verification of medical prescriptions | Portugal | Policy implementation | ||
| Santa Monica Well-being Project | USA | Policy evaluation | ||
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