This document summarizes an EU-funded project involving multiple partners to provide consultancy services supporting EU policy activities. The project involves Open Evidence, University of the Arts London, TheGovLab, Uscreates, Futuregov, Equals, and Bloc de Ideas. It lists the expertise of each partner organization and team member in areas like policy evaluation, online engagement, communication design, and more. The management structure involves a scientific steering committee led by representatives from each partner organization.

1. Provision of consultancy services
supporting the activities of the EU Policy
Lot 3
Leader
Open Evidence
Partners
University of the Arts London,
Uscreates, Futuregov, TheGovLab, Equals, Bloc de Ideas

2. Open Evidence is a spin-off from
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya formed
by professors, researchers and
consultants with more than 20 years of
experience in applied research and
consultancy
About Open Evidence

3. Open Evidence Expertise
Econometrics
Quantitative surveys
Data mining
Impact
assessment
Policy Evaluation And
Monitoring
Benchmarking
Web tools for
open policy
Online engagement
Foresight and
roadmapping
Market
research
Behavioural studies
Experimental
Design

4. INSTITUTION CORE COUNTRY LEAD
Open Evidence Open Policy Making Spain David Osimo
University of Arts Policy Design United Kingdom Lucy Kimbell
TheGovLab Policy Crowdsourcing United States Beth Noveck
Uscreates Service/communication design Uscreates Zoe Stanton
Futuregov Organisations Design Uscreates Carrie Bishop
Equals Graphic Facilitation Uscreates Nick Payne
Bloc de Ideas Survey Services Spain Rosa Dalet
Consortium Composition

5. OE UAL GovLab FutureGov Uscreates Equals BDI
Policy Evaluation
Web Consultation Tools
Policy Crowdsourcing
Communication Design
Ethnographic Research
Policy Design
Visualisation
Graphic Harvesting
Focus Groups
Opinion Mining
Collaborative workshops
Consortium Expertise

6. Management Structure
Scientific Steering Committee
Coordinator
Project
manager
Core Team
David Osimo
Lucy Kimbell Carrie Bishop Beth Noveck Nick Payne Rosa Dalet
Francesco
Mureddu
OE UAL FutureGov Equals BDI GovLab
Uscreate
s

7. Smart crowdsourcing
http://daeimplementation.eu/

8. It’s not just “two-way” conversation
• Many-to-many drives participation and action
http://daa.ec.europa.eu/gro
up/2/content

9. It’s not about direct democracy
• It’s about letting good ideas emerge and bad ideas be revealed
http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/
special/crowdsourcing

10. It’s not about “total openness now”
http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/speci
al/towards-european-strategy-web-
entrepreneurs

11. https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2015/02/26/policy-making-through-possible-futures/
• Two workshops asking people to
talk about their responses to images
of future possible scenarios
associated with technology/ageing
• Report analysing participants’
responses
UK Policy Lab/Government Office of Science – Speculative design (2015)
UAL researcher involved in Policy Lab – Dr Lucy Kimbell

12. https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/21/october-16th-2014-northern-futures-open-ideas-days/
UK Policy Lab – Northern Futures ideas day (2014)
UAL researcher involved – Dr Lucy Kimbell
• Eight one-day policy jams in the
north of England held in one day
involving 192 people
• Outputs were 30 video proposals
• Real time twitter feeds
• Digital crowdsourcing platform live
before, during and after

13. PeerToPatent
La Decision queda en el gobierno
(USPTO)

14. Govlab/1

15. Govlab/2

16. La abertura no tiene que ser solo para militantes
La abertura no es incompatible con la
competicion, la diversion y el interes
Hat tip: Carter and Dance, Nytimes.com

17. Iterative processes
Fuente: http://ebiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/ux-people-autumn-2010-
talks/

18. It’s not about “total citizens”
• Not representative but insightful
Contributions
People
1% left more than 50 contributions and more than 100 tweets
60% left 1 contributions and made 1 tweet
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19. THANK YOU!

20. BACK-UP SLIDES

21. Team Member Function Expertise
Open Evidence
David Osimo Coordinator
Policy Crowdsourcing
Open Policy Making
Francesco Mureddu Project Manager
Policy Evaluation and Online
Engagement
Francisco Vilanueva Core Team Member
Policy Evaluation
Opinion Mining
Marcello Verona Core Team Member Web Consultation Tools
Katarzyna Jakimowicz Core Team Member Policy Analysis
Federica Porcu Core Team Member Community management
University of Arts
Lucy Kimbell Scientific Steering Committee
Co-Design in Policy Making
Ethnographic Research
David Sims Core Team Member
Communication Design
Digital Design and Visualisation
Karen Cham Core Team Member Collaborative Workshops
Alison Prendiville Core Team Member Co-Design for Public Services
Members’ Expertise (1)

22. Team Member Function Expertise
FutureGov
Carrie Bishop Scientific Steering Committee
Digital Design
Co-Design in Policy Making
Jenny Thai Core Team Member User Experience Design
Simone Carrier Core Team Member User Experience Design
Tony Brown Core Team Member Organisation Design
Carrie Bishop Scientific Steering Committee
Digital Design
Co-Design in Policy Making
Uscreates
Zoe Stanton Core Team Member Communication design
Alan Boyles Core Team Member Digital Design and Data Visualisation
Joanna Choukeir Core Team Member
Co-Design for Public Services
Co-Design in Policy Making
Laura Malan Core Team Member Communication Design
Members’ Expertise (2)

23. Team Member Function Expertise
GovLab
Beth Simone Noveck Scientific Steering Committee Open Government
Stefaan Verhulst Core Team Member
Policy Crowdsourcing
Co-Design for Public Services
Equals
Nicholas Payne Scientific Steering Committee
Graphic Harvesting
Focus Groups
James Skinner Core Team Member
Multimedia Visualization
Visual Production
Bloc de Ideas
Rosa Dalet Scientific Steering Committee
Focus Groups
Quantitative Surveys
Luisa Fernández Core Team Member
Focus Groups
Ethnographic Research
Members’ Expertise (3)