Luke Porwol

Role in the project: The author and coordinator of the project

Project Description:
COMPACT is a Coordination and Support Action funded European Commission under framework Horizon 2020.

The objective of the COMPACT project is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. The project will offer analyses and road… Show more

Role in the project: The author and coordinator of the project

Project Description:
COMPACT is a Coordination and Support Action funded European Commission under framework Horizon 2020.

The objective of the COMPACT project is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. The project will offer analyses and road maps of related initiatives. In addition, extensive research on policies and regulatory frameworks in media and content will be developed. Show less

Role in the project: Dissemination Leader and System Engineering
Project Description:
ROUTE-TO-PA is a multidisciplinary innovation project, that, by combining expertise and research in the fields of e-government, computer science, learning science and economy, is aiming at improving the impact, towards citizens and within society, of ICT-based technology platforms for transparency. ROUTE-TO-PA envisions that Information and Communication Technologies for Transparency must improve the… Show more

Role in the project: Dissemination Leader and System Engineering
Project Description:
ROUTE-TO-PA is a multidisciplinary innovation project, that, by combining expertise and research in the fields of e-government, computer science, learning science and economy, is aiming at improving the impact, towards citizens and within society, of ICT-based technology platforms for transparency. ROUTE-TO-PA envisions that Information and Communication Technologies for Transparency must improve the engagement of citizens by making them able to socially interact over open data, by forming or joining existing online communities that share common interest and discuss common issues of relevance to local policy, service delivery, and regulation;

Moreover, ROUTE-TO-PA aims at engaging citizens to a higher degree by providing a robust and more holistic understanding of transparency, by underpinning the next generation open-data based transparency initiatives, ensuring that published data are those of value to citizens, with a personalized view in different forms to different segments of the citizens and public based on their profiles for facilitate better understanding. ROUTE-TO-PA will deliver the experimented innovative and engaging ICT platforms to ensure citizen-friendly, conscious, and effective access to open-data, by offering easy understanding of, and social collaboration on, open data offered by PAs.

The objectives of ROUTE-TO-PA are:

(1) develop a Social Platform for Open Data (SPOD) enabling social interactions among open data users and between open data users and government data;
(2) build Transparency-Enhancing Toolset (TET) as extensions for existing major Open Data Platforms; and
(3) develop a set of recommendations (GUIDE) as good practice guide for open data publishers for achieving higher quality transparency through open data.
The objectives are deployed, tested and experimented in a real setting, with at least 5 pilot studies in five different European countries. Show less

Role in the project: Coordinator of the Project

Project Description:
The development, configuration and operation of Highly Distributed Applications’ entail many and multi-faceted challenges. These challenges span across the entire HDA’s lifecycle; namely the Software Engineering, the Infrastructural On-boarding, the Execution and the Optimization phase.

Under this perspective, the vision of ARCADIA is to provide a novel reconfigurable by design Highly Distributed Applications’… Show more

Role in the project: Coordinator of the Project

Project Description:
The development, configuration and operation of Highly Distributed Applications’ entail many and multi-faceted challenges. These challenges span across the entire HDA’s lifecycle; namely the Software Engineering, the Infrastructural On-boarding, the Execution and the Optimization phase.

Under this perspective, the vision of ARCADIA is to provide a novel reconfigurable by design Highly Distributed Applications’ development paradigm over programmable Infrastructure. To do so, ARCADIA Framework will rely on the development of an extensible Context Model which will be used by developers directly at the source-code level. Proper Context-Model usage will be assisted and validated by an IDE-plugin in order to re-assure that generated binary contains meaningful semantics. The generated executable should be on-boarded by a Smart Controller which will undertake the tasks of i) translating annotations to optimal infrastructural configuration ii) initialize the optimal configuration to the registered programmable resources and iii) react pro-actively to the configuration plan based on the infrastructural state. Such a Smart Controller will adhere to an Open and Extensible Architecture; in the sense that future programmable infrastructural elements should be smoothly on-boarded. Finally, the Context-Model and the aforementioned ARCADIA toolset will be complemented by a development methodology that will assure that developed Highly Distributed Applications are reconfigurable by design. Show less

Puzzled by Policy is a complete solution for engaging people in the policy process. It offers a toolkit to support improved policy-making through a combination of online and offline citizen engagement.

An online platform, which is freely available to use and install, helps users understand a topic in more detail and to participate in ongoing discussion with policy-makers and other stakeholders. Best practice and support guides are also available to help establish communities, grow trust… Show more

Puzzled by Policy is a complete solution for engaging people in the policy process. It offers a toolkit to support improved policy-making through a combination of online and offline citizen engagement.

An online platform, which is freely available to use and install, helps users understand a topic in more detail and to participate in ongoing discussion with policy-makers and other stakeholders. Best practice and support guides are also available to help establish communities, grow trust and drive impact.

Developed by leading IT companies, public authorities, universities and NGOs across Europe, Puzzled by Policy reduces the complexity of policy-making by consulting with people in a manner that is both fun and engaging. Join our growing community of nearly 7,000 citizens and policy makers that have already adopted Puzzled.
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This project created the mobile applications on Android and IOS to help tens of thousands of visitors to make the most over the nine-day festival. The projects attracted thousands of downloads on Android phones, Iphones and IPad during the festival.

Cloud4SOA: A Semantic-Interoperability PaaS Solution for Multi-cloud Platform Management and Portability.

Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a novel, rapidly growing segment in the Cloud computing market. However, the diversity and heterogeneity of today’s existing PaaS offerings raises several interoperability challenges. This introduces adoption barriers due to the lock-in issues that prevent the portability of data and applications from one PaaS to another, “locking” software… Show more

Cloud4SOA: A Semantic-Interoperability PaaS Solution for Multi-cloud Platform Management and Portability.

Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a novel, rapidly growing segment in the Cloud computing market. However, the diversity and heterogeneity of today’s existing PaaS offerings raises several interoperability challenges. This introduces adoption barriers due to the lock-in issues that prevent the portability of data and applications from one PaaS to another, “locking” software developers to the first provider they use. Cloud4SOA solution is a scalable approach to semantically interconnect heterogeneous PaaS offerings across different Cloud providers that share the same technology. The design of the Cloud4SOA solution comprises of a set of interlinked collaborating software components and models to provide developers and platform providers with a number of core capabilities: matchmaking, management, monitoring and migration of applications. Show less

Role in the project: Dev Lead
Innovative e-Learning platform

Innovative e-Learning environment design and development

First Semantic Digital Library design & development