The Interactive Policy Making, or IPM, is an online
opinion poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election) is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions ...
management system launched in 2001, which is used to gather the opinion of
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...
citizens and entreprises regarding
policy development
Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organ ...
The software is part of the
Interactive Policy Making Initiative
Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but mo ...
and is made of various
modules
Broadly speaking, modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use. The concept of modularity is used primarily to reduce complexity by breaking a sy ...
which assist in the creation of such questionnaires - including a creation, translation, test, launch and analysis module.
History
The
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...
started using the system at the end of 2001, and introduced it to the public through the "Your Voice in Europe" program.
In 2002, prior to the launch of the
top-level domain
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.eu
.eu is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the European Union (EU). Launched on 7 December 2005, the domain is available for any person, company or organization based in the European Union. This was extended to the European Economic Are ...
, the European Commission used IPM to gather the opinion of companies regarding cybersquatting.
In 2006, the European Commission released IPM OSS, an open source version of the software aimed at companies and private organizations.
References
External links
IMP official web page
Polling
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