Title: Migration-aware policy-making in decentralised and dynamic social and collaborative environments

Authors: Athanasios Karantjias; Nineta Polemi; Teta Stamati

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, University of Pireaus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Str, 185 34 Pireaus, Greece ' Department of Computer Science, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece ' National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia Athens 15784, Greece

Abstract: Migration for employment is acknowledged to have direct consequences on National economies, as well as the overall economic situation of the European Union (EU). Migration policy and decision-makers need to systematically collaborate towards sophisticated approaches that facilitate legal immigrants to be effectively integrated in labour markets and public administration processes. Latest ICT developments, which integrate Web 2.0 technologies, collaborative knowledge management systems, and semantic analysis technologies, allow participatory governance and citizen-generated policy making. This paper presents a collaborative migration policy-modelling centre, techniques, solutions and overall services for collaborative development of immigration policies, as well as for supporting related decisions.

Keywords: migration information systems; collaboration; social computing; policy making; participatory governance; security; privacy; public administration; legal immigrants; immigration policies; e-governance; electronic governance; ICT; Web 2.0; collaborative knowledge management systems; semantic analysis; collaboration; policy modelling; decision making.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2011.043819

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2011 Vol.4 No.3, pp.209 - 229

Received: 08 Oct 2010
Accepted: 11 May 2011
Published online: 23 Nov 2011 *

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