My presentation at ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling Consultation Workshop, European Commission, Feb 2nd 2010

1. Systems Ubiquitous, Unobtrusive Systems that Support, Assist and Delight Citizens. Ubiquitous, Unobtrusive Systems that Support, Assist and Delight Citizens. Hazard Checking: Micro: Will this action taken NOW, In this CONTEXT for this PERSON harm or inconvenience them? Delay it? Omit it? Modify it? Macro: Learn from Micro. Computer Government Ubiquitous Sensing and Data Collection Universal Interoperability Automated Model Learning Unlimited Inference Benefit Checking: Micro: Can an action taken NOW, in this CONTEXT for this PERSON help them? Delight them? Offer it? Take it? Accelerate it? Macro: Learn from Micro. Michael Witbrock, Ph.D. Cycorp Europe

2. The Phillips Economics Computer (1949) Human generated models likely to betoo simple. Partial automation ofall stages of model formation. Data aggregation. Hypothesis formationintegrating background knowledge. Hypothesis validation &model refinement.Model application. Michael Witbrock, Ph.D. Cycorp Europe