The 8^th Extended Semantic Web Conference will take place on May 29-June 2 2011, in Heraklion, Greece. This workshop is targeting novel approaches, methods, practices and tools for turning the public information overload into an opportunity for Governance and Policy Modelling with the help of semantics, open data and Public Sector Information reuse, linked data and visual analytics. Specific importance is to be placed in multidisciplinary approaches, combining theoretical policy making methodologies, advanced ICT and Government 2.0 collaboration practices. The workshop will also provide a stand for real-life application examples, showing how stakeholders can gain insight and take action into complex and unpredictable real-life situations at international, national or local level.

The audience of the workshop includes researchersand practitioners spanning the domains of Semantic Web, Electronic Governance and Policy Modelling, university students and professors of Computer, Management, Social and Public Administration sciences, ICT industry staff engaged in relevant projects and solutions, policy makers and decision drivers at local, national or international levels, public administration officials and industry executives, engaged both in organisational design and ICT deployment.

Notably, Yannis Charalabidis, GIC Manager and Fenareti Lampathaki, GIC Senior Researcher are among the Workshop Chairs and Dimitris Askounis, GIC Scientific Responsible, is in the Workshop Programme Committee.

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