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+title: Impact Analysis of Greece’s OpenGov Public Consultation Contributions on Final Legislation
+presenter: Antonis Athanasiou, AUEB
+date: 2024-04-22
+category: seminars
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+Public consultations and eParticipation initiatives have been a subject of research
+for many years. The Greek ICT-enabled consultation platform, Opengov, is used
+as a case study to measure consultation impact on voted law. Literature generally
+agrees that the goal of consultations is — among others — impact on developed
+policy, however there is not a universally accepted way of measuring this impact.
+This thesipos takes its own approach to defining impact as the similarity between
+draft legislation and voted legislation. Work from the public consultation field and
+the Natural Language Processing is presented. An extensive data collection and
+extraction process was necessary for this analysis which is also shown. Ordinary
+Least Squares (OLS) analysis was used to assert and quantify impact. Results show,
+among other explanatory variables, that the more contributions draft legislation gets,
+the more it changes on average. The thesis finishes with discussion of the results,
+the limitations of the selected approach and suggests ideas for improvement.