User:Michael Osei Assibey

Homework 1

2. Shared understanding is whereby a situation concerning a decision whereby participants understand the decision options are being taken. There may be disagreements but in all the shared understanding is mostly written down to be assessed by all. It is a very key aspect of open policy practice.

----#: . The participants also understand what facts, opinions, and disagreements exist related to the decision. --Jouni (talk) 11:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

7. Open assessment is the main knowledge in open policy practice and seeks to answer the question of finding solutions to decision making using scientific information available. The assessment process involves a lot of applications from

1. stakeholders,
2. scientific methodology and
3. opinions from experts

in order to arrive at a conclusion.

----#: . Open assessment is the work to produce information needed in the decision making. --Jouni (talk) 11:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

18. Open policy practice aims to create a shared understanding in the decision making process and it thus consists of;

• shared understanding,
  • execution of the decision support (scientific method used to inform decision maker),
    • evaluation and managing of the work (does the work reach its aim?) and
      • co-creation skills and facilitation (ability to manage uncertainties ----#: . and also other things than uncertainties, such as the process of decision making. --Jouni (talk) 11:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)).

Homework 3

Question 1

Is the realistic target of the GHG emissions set by Kuopio excluding the wood-based fuel and other potential sources of emissions since only the reform in the Haapaniemi power plant seemed to have been used?

Question 2

In terms of the health impact in the training asssessment, I could not grab the concept of using the ovariable in the R code.

1. Is it similar to the p value in dose-response or exceptionally different?
   • Thus could more elaboration be done in class concerning this process?

Homework 10

Evaluation of an Assessment

Evaluation of a classmate's Assessment Dust storm in south of Iran causes lots of environmental impacts and health problems for the country (by Mohammad Shahidehnia and Paula Maatela)

Characterization of assessment

Category		Characterization
Impacts		The health impacts of the dust storms on the environment and people were identified.
Causes		Dust storms was the main idea behind this assessment but as to how other pollutants or other factors can confound the problem was not made clear.
Problem owner		The citizens of Ahvaz will be the ones with most impact and this include decision makers and authorities.
Target		Mostly the ones above but as to if they were the intended targets in the assessment was not fully done.
Interaction		Not sure about the extent of participation of different users especially since the Decision makers do have the final say and if the citizens do have an influence at all.
Category of interaction within the knowledge-policy interaction framework.		Joint participation (Open interaction)
Dimensions of openness	Scope of participation	Citizens, government, opinion leaders, Paula and Mohammed.
	Access to information	Level of pollution and health effects with relevant data by WHO .
	Timing of openness	Is the time of openness specific for all the participants or the stipulated target year would be the time for the assessment. Not clearly defined.
	Scope of contribution	Extent of citizen's contribution not specific but is purported to include all contributions of participants.
	Impact of contribution	The outcomes of the results from the assessment creates the image of all contributions but do citizens, government or private entities play a major role?.

Evaluation of the assessment

Category		Evaluation	Reasoning
Quality of content		1	The question could have been rephrased to get stipulated results. Do the citizens and leaders of government have the same level of impact and contribution? However other information are very clear.
Applicability	Relevance	3	The relevance of dust storms on the health of people and the environment is very important.
	Availability.	3	It seems that there is a will to make results available to all parties. In reality this might prove problematic.
	Usability	2	The results gained from this assessment could be applied to other regions like Ghana where we face the same issue in the Northern sector from the Sahara desert but the structure and most of the details are lacking.
	Acceptability	3	It depends on the citizens to know the environmental and health impacts of these dust storms and the authorities to take relevant action.
Efficiency		3	Regional scope of the effects should be also addressed especially between Iran and Iraq but overall the concept and ideas are commendable.

Suggestions to improve the draft

The main idea should be reported next time in an assessment and the main parts should be addressed in terms of the contributions from each affected contributor in the assessment to be done.