Governance in the Information Era : Theory and Practice of Policy Informatics

Policy Informatics is an emerging area of inter-disciplinary exploration focused on infusing sound information management and computational sciences mechanisms into the policy design, deliberation, and implementation processes with regard to the contexts of larger systems.  This book will bring together scholars and practitioners who will contribute progressive thinking and innovative solutions on how to advance the fields of public administration, information sciences, organizational sciences, computational sciences, and urban planning by embracing the policy informatics perspective.

Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory platforms and citizen science to explore complex governance challenges in domains that include education, environment, and health.