Big Data And Public Policy Course Content And Outcome Rebecca Moody by Rebecca Moody, Victor Bekkers 9783031160301, 3031160304 instant download after payment.

Government and society face all kinds of different but often intertwined challenges to which they must respond. These challenges relate to a wide range of questions. For instance, how can policies be developed that ensure an open and inclusive society, able to protect us against pandemic diseases like the COVID-19 virus? Or, how can the transition of the production and distribution of energy be organized in such a way that climate change is dealt with by reducing fossil fuel emissions? How can the lifestyle of people be changed in such a way that we are able to reduce the costs of health care that rise due to an older population, while at the same time ensuring the quality of and access to these services? And, how can policies that support migrants integrate in society in such a way that they can become self-supporting be developed without widening the gap between people who have and those who have not? Last but not least, how can we ensure that a citizen in need of all kinds of social support and social benefits (because, e.g., of unemployment or incapability to work) is being dealt with as a ‘whole person,’ or being defined from a holistic perspective? One step in dealing with these questions is to bring the information governments have regarding all relevant aspects of the challenges at hand—and that are often gathered and stored by different organizations that operate in different domains—together, in order to get a better and more integrated understanding about possible causes and effects, but also to understand the consequences of possible policy approaches.