The Samos 2014 Summit on ICT-enabled Governance aims at giving a unique opportunity to see, interact with and influence cutting-edge Information and Communication Technologies research projects and initiatives.  This event brings together high caliber experts from research, administrations and enterprises from around the globe, the Samos 2014 Summit focuses on the newest developments of ICT applications in the areas of digital governance.  Specific focus in this year’s summit will be given to the following topics:

• Open and Linked Data applications, technological frameworks and standardization approaches;
• Global Systems Science approaches for evidence-based decision making and policy support in administration, business and society;
• Big data management technologies in policy support, with an emphasis in simulation, mining and visualization approaches
• Interoperable infrastructures and cloud technologies for open and collaborative governance scenarios.