Knowledge4Policy platform (K4P)

This session promises to be dynamic and tailored to our audience’s interests, covering key topics related to the overall approach and key features of the Knowledge4Policy platform (K4P).

Prepare ahead:

To ensure everyone starts on the same page, we encourage you to watch the slide cast from our October conference if you missed it. The slide cast covers foundational concepts about K4P, including its integration of knowledge management, synthesis, and community-building. Establishing this baseline will allow us to focus on deeper discussions and audience-driven topics during the talk.

Target audience? 

Business Owners and Drupal Developers

About the speaker:

Mathew Lowry is an information architect, communication strategist and founder of MyHub.ai. His educational background is in theoretical physics, he has been online since the days of Usenet in the late 1980s.

He has 30 years’ experience in developing and implementing communication and digital transformation strategies for organisations as diverse as EU Institutions, venture capital management companies, international research projects and online media start-ups.

Along the way he has picked up a few firsts and best practices in innovative online communications within the EU context, including conceiving and launching:

• first database-driven website by any European public organization (1995);
• first use of XML in HTML production for EU Institutions (1997);
• first “web first, paper later” communications platform for European Commission (1998);
• first Web2.0 online community for European Commission (2002);
• first “cross-silo” thematic portal, content management system, RSS and customisable XML feed for EU Institutions (2003);
• most successful EU policy blogging platform (2007), nominated Top 20 ‘euroblogger’ (2010), invited into LinkedIn’s blogging programme pilot phase (March 2014);
• first and second uses of semantic technologies in EC communications (2009, 2011);
• first site built on the EC’s pilot Drupal ‘Multi-site’ CMS platform (2012);
• pioneered 'policylayer' architecture and 'two-layer', VocBench-supported taxonomic architecture for cross-EC ‘Knowledge4Policy’ knowledge management platform for evidence-based policymaking (2016-)

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