The underlying idea is to experiment a new, pragmatic approach in SD planning that could complement some of the existing and dominating tools that have been vigorously criticized by the community of both scholars and practitioners. The work represents a real-world example of adopting semantic and Web 2.0 technologies in complex domains, such as governance and policy making.

The workshop targeted novel approaches, methods, practices and tools for turning the public information overload into an opportunity for Governance and Policy Modeling with the help of semantics, open data and Public Sector Information reuse, linked data and visual analytics. Specific importance is to be placed in multidisciplinary approaches, combining theoretical policy making methodologies, advanced ICT and Government 2.0 collaboration practices.

The Extended Semantic Web Conference successfully brought together top notch researchers and practitioners dealing with different aspects of semantic technologies where research on semantic technologies were able to benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas, including Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.

The presentation at the workshop can be found here.