<i>Data &amp; Policy</i>: A new venue to study and explore policy–data interaction

Abstract

Every era faces a unique set of challenges and dilemmas, but ours can credibly lay claim to some of the most complex and vexing that humankind may have ever confronted. From climate change to growing inequality to a rising tide of refugees: we face an intricate mesh of overlapping and interdependent difficulties, one that is pushing the limits of our existing policy and governance capabilities (Data for Policy, 2015; What we require today are not so much (or not only) new solutions, but new ways for arriving at solutions We need a twenty-first century paradigm of governance and policy making.