Opasnet WSA contest preparation
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This page contains preparational stuff for WSA contest
Timeline
- Registration starts 1.2.2011
- Registration ends 25.3.2011
- Jury evaluation starts 7.4.2011 and ends 14.4.2011
- Opasnet must be in top shape before 7.4.2011
Evaluation criteria
- Quality and comprehensiveness of content
- Ease of use: functionality, navigation and orientation
- Value added through interactivity and multimedia
- Quality of design (aesthetic value of graphics / music or sounds)
- Quality of craftsmanship (technical realisation)
- Strategic importance for the global development of the Information Society
- Accessibility according to the W3C (http://www.w3.org)
Product data
Short description
(in English, max. 1000 characters) Lyhyt teksti, tarkoituksena vakuuttaa tuomari siitä että tähän työhän kannattaa paneutua tarkemmin. Hissipuhe!
Opasnet is a collective knowledge production environment with a strong societal emphasis. Opasnet service brings together people interested in making open assessments. These can take many shapes ranging from scientific studies to testing the validity of claims presented in mass media and constructing policy recommendations and expert advice for the decision makers. According to the Opasnet philosophy, everyone can contribute and utilize the results for free. Citizens can offer their values, expectations and data for the basis of the assessments. For experts, whether they are government officials or professional scientists in independent research institutions, Opasnet offers a range of tools and methodologies that help in (1) generating, presenting and storing the results in such a way that others can utilize and reproduce them (2) integrating the results systematically with the existing body of knowledge from other assessments (3) assessing the quality of the contributions.
Long description
(in English, max. 4000 characters) Tämä on yksityiskohtaisempi selostus työstä, jos on hyviä käyttäjätilastoja tai palautetta, ne kannattaa myös esitellä tässä.
Wikipedia that is one of the great success stories of collaborative knowledge aggregation of the 21st Century. Opasnet is a wiki-based platform which goes beyond Wikipedia: (1) Opasnet is designed for synthesis of information (of any kind), not merely for aggregation (2) Opasnet allows and encourages the publication of original research, which has practical relevance for society both in the long term and in the short term.
In general, Opasnet aims at presenting a neutral point of view while allowing and incorporating value based arguments in assessments, which often are formalized in terms of risk-benefit analysis of some kind. The platform enables the interaction of the experts and the general public, whose values and expectations are an important ingredient for the analysis. Despite the fact that not everything can be easily translated into mathematical utility functions and models used in scientific analysis of societal problems, the fact remains that from policy planning to engineering problems model-based decision making is becoming more prevalent in all areas of governance. Typically, just a handful of priviledged experts (consultants and civil servants) have access to these models and the data. Opasnet offers an environment where the underlying assumptions can be debated, where the models and the data can be published and shared, and where the methods to arrive at conclusions can be collectively developed.
- This is important because analyzing the state of the world and producing assessments is, of course, something that not everybody can do.
- Future development
How can Opasnet be integrated with other Government 2.0 services? Use of Simupedia?
- The number of the pages and the time spent per page view in the Finnish language version of Opasnet has nearly doubled in 2010. The English language version, which contains considerably more articles/assessments is driven mainly by international science collaborations, and will be the focal point of PR work in 2011.
TBC Wednesday morning...
Favourite path to the product
(in English, max. 2000 characters) Tähän kannattaa panna selostus siitä, mitä valikkoja/painikkeita klikkaamalla kilpailutyöstä saa mahdollisimman nopeasti parhaan yleiskuvan.
- composite traffic model
- DARM
- Climate change?
Installation procedure
No installation procedure is needed. Opasnet is a web service which be accessed from anywhere and it can be used with any modern web browser.
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Special technical requirements
No special technical requirements are needed. Opasnet can be used with any modern web browser. However we recommend to use Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari.
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Short description of the reason for production
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Target group for the product
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