Agenda of Wednesday, 2nd of July 2014

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			Wednesday 02 July 2014
10.00	11.30		Workshop I: Transforming Policy-making – Reasonsfor slow adoption by policy-makers All kind of ICT technologies radically transforming policy-making practice, however, policy-makers awareness is limited and they often stick to their traditional way of policy-making. In this workshop an overview of changes affecting and transforming policy-making is presented. This is followed by a brainstorm about the variety of reasons (unclear benefits, lack of capabilities, not-invented her syndrome, no technology support etc) why policy-makers are slow in adopting. The top reasons will be prioritized and worked out. Chair: Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands, Rapporteurs: Harris Alexopoulos, Yiannis Koulizakis Room: SIVYLLA Theater
11.30	12.00		Coffee Break
12.00	13.00		Workshop II: Towards theGlobal System Science Research Roadmap organised by the EU-COMMUNITY project The workshop aims at structuring the contents and directions of the Global Systems Science research domain, through analysing and deliberating on current projects positioning and future activities. Projects will be classified along axes of evidence-based decision making models, data management and citizen participation. Furthermore, discussion will touch upon the most challenging research objectives, the most promising methods and tools and the targeted societal challenges. Chairs: YannisCharalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece, AntonisRamfos, INTRASOFT, Brussels Rapporteur: AggelikiAndroutsopoulou Room: SIVYLLA Theater
13.00	13.30		Samos Summit Closing Presentation and deliberation on the Samos 2013 Summit Declaration Room: SIVYLLA Theater
13.30	14.30		Light Lunch
			End of Samos 2014 Summit

Samos Summit Social Events

07.00

08.15

5-element Qi-Gong session by the Pool *

18.00

20.00

Visit to the Pythagoras Cave & Meditation*

20.30

22.00

Piano Recital @ Civylla Theater

*at own cost