Keynote speech – ai as a mean to better inform policy makers true or false(1)
- 1. AI as a mean to better inform policy-makers: True or False? Sehl Mellouli Professor Department of Information Systems Université Laval Samos Summit 2021
- 2. Introduction Samos Summit 2021 • People are more and more using social media to express themselves about the different services that their governments are delivering. • They can either provide positive or negative comments on government services. • It becomes important for policy-makers to have the necessary tools to extract this valuable knowledge in a comprehensive way and that they may consider in their decision-making processes.
- 3. Introduction Samos Summit 2021 • There are different platforms that can be used for e-participation. • As depicted in (Boudjelida et al., 2016): ü 41% of e-Participation activities are implemented through social networks, ü 24% through online forums, ü 22% through government's' official web sites and ü 13% through other online technologies.
- 5. Outline • Introduction • You said information …. • Challenges for Policy-Makers • Case Study • Discussion • Next steps Samos Summit 2021
- 6. You said information …. • “Gather citizens of Limoilou, add more activities in our magnificent neighborhood, and have shows more often!” • “At 8h30 yesterday morning, At the most frequented roundabout by cars and pedestrians. Two trucks are parked on the sidewalk while police are right next door to manage traffic, impunity is the main cause of offenses committed. Please say hello to the State: I haven't taken the photo while driving” Samos Summit 2021
- 7. You said information …. Samos Summit 2021
- 8. Outline • Introduction • You said information …. • Challenges for Policy-Makers • Case Study • Discussion • Next steps Samos Summit 2021
- 9. Challenges for Policy-Makers Samos Summit 2021 • Social media data is based on structured and unstructured data. • The structured data (i.e. identified also as metadata) compromise for example the user's information (e.g. name, description, spatial, temporal, etc.) and the content information (e.g., number of likes, retweets, mentions, etc.). • The unstructured data is related to the "user-generated" textual content that can be for example tweets, replies and comments.
- 10. Challenges for Policy-Makers Samos Summit 2021
- 11. Outline • Introduction • You said information …. • Challenges for Policy-Makers • Case Study • Discussion • Next steps Samos Summit 2021
- 12. Case study 1 Samos Summit 2021
- 13. Case Study 1 Samos Summit 2021 • Public administration: “Plus que deux ann es... @Rue de l' le de Rhodes... responsables de la SONEDE o tes vous?” (“More than two years... @ Ile Rhodes street...SONEDE team, where are you?”) • Anarchic construction: “Le Duplex ‘Av Kheireddine Bacha’: A l'instant Destruction de l'extension sur le trottoir” (“Keireddine Bacha Avenue: At the moment Destruction of the extension on the sidewalk”) • Environment: “La beaute de la cite ghazela #ariana #avons nous un etat???” (“The beauty of ghazela city #ariana #do we have a state???”)
- 14. Case Study 1 Samos Summit 2021
- 15. Case Study 2 Samos Summit 2021
- 16. Outline • Introduction • You said information …. • Challenges for Policy-Makers • Case Study • Discussion • Next steps Samos Summit 2021
- 19. Discussion • Setting: 24 groups, each group with 4-5 participants • Work on the same dataset • Different results and different interpreation of results • Governments have to develop strategies on how data can be interepreted Samos Summit 2021
- 21. Discussion Samos Summit 2021 Kotsiantis, S. B., Zaharakis, I., & Pintelas, P. (2007). Supervised machine learning: A review of classification techniques. Emerging artificial intelligence applications in computer engineering, 160, 3-24.
- 22. Outline • Introduction • You said information …. • Challenges for Policy-Makers • Case Study • Discussion • Next steps Samos Summit 2021
- 23. Next steps • More theories to understand how to build and use AI solutions in Governments • Ethical issues need to be considered in AI solutions • To what extent the data analysis can be reliable for policy-makers? • To what extent the data is representative of citizens opinions? Samos Summit 2021
- 24. References 1. Driss, O. B., Mellouli, S., & Trabelsi, Z. (2019). From citizens to government policy-makers: Social media data analysis. Government Information Quarterly, 36(3), 560-570. 2. Boukchina, E., Mellouli., S., and Menif., E. (2018). From Citizens to Decision-Makers, A Natural Language Processing Approach in Citizens’ Participation. International Journal of E-Planning Research. Vol.7 (2), p.20-34. 3. Corbett, J., and Mellouli., S. (2017). Winning the SDG battle in cities: how an integrated information ecosystem can contribute to the achievement of the 2030 sustainable development goals. Information Systems Journal. Vol. 27(4), 427-461. 4. Marzouki., A., Mellouli., S., and Daniel., S. (2017). Towards a Context-based Citizen Participation Approach: a Literature Review of Citizen Participation Issues and a Conceptual Framework. 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017). New Delhi, India, 7-9 March 2017. 5. Boudjelida., A., Mellouli., S., and Lee., J. (2016). Electronic Citizens Participation: State of the Art. 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2016). Montevideo, Uruguay, 1-3 March 2016. Samos Summit 2021