A Cloud-Based Platform to Support the Policymaking: The Case of the DECIDO Project.

Policy making is the process of creating and monitoring policies to solve societal challenges. In this respect, it is often conceptualized as a policy cycle [15], consisting of several different phases, such as agenda setting, policy formulation, policy implementation & monitor and policy evaluation. Citizens often have the perception that the policy decided by the public authorities doesn’t meet their needs. They would like to be engaged to provide their contribution to the policy decision, supporting the decision takers in a bottom-up approach. Citizens are called to take an active role in public services definition and implementation through co-production and co-creation. In this paper we illustrate how DECIDO project can support the policy makers along with citizens, organisations, businesses, public authorities to create/improve better policies, exploiting the power of data through the use of the disruptive technologies. Evidence-based and data-drive approaches are strongly recommended to take informed design decisions affecting the policies. The solution proposed by DECIDO is a combination of a co-creation methodology to involve all the actors in the Policy Life Cycle, and an easy-to-use web portal to support the creation of the policy exploiting big data analysis and cloud services in each phase of the Policy Life Cycle.