The Data Shake - Opportunities and Obstacles for Urban Policy Making

Polivisu is a Horizon 2020 project which has studied and tested how data visualisation can impact and support policymaking.

The experiences in various cities, mainly Issy-les-Moulineaux, Gent and Pilsen, and in the Flanders Region (with the support of some cities, like Mechelen) gave tremendous lessons learnt.

The project, through the editing of the Politecnico di Milano and Informatie Vlandeeren, wrote a book about the whole project, with a dedicated chapter about lessons learnt. Those have been driven answering to some questions:

What are the new roles data can play in the policy making process?, What is the added value of data for policy making? How can innovative visualisations contribute to improve the use of data in policy making processes? To what extent can an increased adoption of data affect the policy making process? How is the data shake affecting the involvement of non-institutional actors in the policy making process? (abstract of Chapter 8 of "The Data Shake)

You can read the lessons learnt at this link:

https://lnkd.in/eUaQHM6

The full version of the book is available here:

https://lnkd.in/eTigbVz