TY - GEN
T1 - CHALLENGES IN DATA-DRIVEN POLICYMAKING: USING SMART CITY DATA TO SUPPORT LOCAL RETAIL POLICIES
AU - D'Hauwers, Ruben
AU - Borghys, Koen
AU - Vannieuwenhuyze, Jorre
AU - Walravens, Nils
AU - Lievens, Bram
PY - 2020/9/15
Y1 - 2020/9/15
N2 - In Flanders (Belgium), there is a growing awareness among city administrations and governments to turn their cities into smart cities by transforming their policy decisions into evidence-based and data-driven policymaking. Nonetheless, many Flemish cities still face several challenges related to the integration of data-driven policy evaluation research at different stages of their policy making processes. For that reason, the ‘Smart Retail Dashboard’-project was set up, which aims to develop a dashboard for helping Flemish cities in transforming their retail policies into data-driven policies.This paper reports on the initial findings of this project. The most important finding is the varying degrees of maturity across cities regarding their smart retail policies. This is illustrated by the current state of data-driven policy making in the retail sector in Flanders. Subsequently we provide an overview of the current challenges reported by mature and less mature cities, which range from the cost and the usability of data to the analysis and interpretation of such data. We discuss how a Smart Retail Dashboard could provide answers to these challenges. This discussion helps city administrations to transform their policymaking processes into data-driven processes and dashboard developers to optimise their development processes.
AB - In Flanders (Belgium), there is a growing awareness among city administrations and governments to turn their cities into smart cities by transforming their policy decisions into evidence-based and data-driven policymaking. Nonetheless, many Flemish cities still face several challenges related to the integration of data-driven policy evaluation research at different stages of their policy making processes. For that reason, the ‘Smart Retail Dashboard’-project was set up, which aims to develop a dashboard for helping Flemish cities in transforming their retail policies into data-driven policies.This paper reports on the initial findings of this project. The most important finding is the varying degrees of maturity across cities regarding their smart retail policies. This is illustrated by the current state of data-driven policy making in the retail sector in Flanders. Subsequently we provide an overview of the current challenges reported by mature and less mature cities, which range from the cost and the usability of data to the analysis and interpretation of such data. We discuss how a Smart Retail Dashboard could provide answers to these challenges. This discussion helps city administrations to transform their policymaking processes into data-driven processes and dashboard developers to optimise their development processes.
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U2 - 10.5194/isprs-annals-VI-4-W2-2020-55-2020
DO - 10.5194/isprs-annals-VI-4-W2-2020-55-2020
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 2194-9042
VL - 6
T3 - ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
SP - 55
EP - 61
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities
PB - ISPRS
T2 - the 5th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities
Y2 - 30 September 2020 through 2 October 2020
ER -