Web 2.0 for Local Policy and Decision Making Support: Research &Development Results from the ICT Project UniteEurope
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The paper discusses opportunities and challenges of social media and social media analytics for the purpose of policy and decision making. The EU-FP7 ICT project UniteEurope is presented as an innovative on-going research and development project that combines the expertise and perspectives of technical practitioners, researchers and policy makers for elaborating a scientifically based social media analytics tool.
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