What is Policy

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A general guideline which provides clear direction to formulate specific programs. Learn more in: Collaborative Governance: A New Paradigm Shift for the Smart Cities

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A policy is a security requirement that a consumer wants to apply to a service execution. Learn more in: Mitigating Security Risks in Web Service Invocations: Contract-Based Approaches

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A set of behavioral and procedural written rules that a company drafts as guidelines for its employees. Learn more in: Organizational Aspects of Cyberloafing

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The course of an action of those in power, governments or official institution, party and sectors. Policy includes vision, goals, principles and plans that guide the activities of different sectors. Learn more in: Gender and National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policies in Africa

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This is an articulated, deliberate plan of action, principles Local content: which encapsulates over all goals, aims as well as strategies for achieving rational outcome. Learn more in: Positioning Library and Information Services for User Satisfaction through ICT Policy Formulation in Nigeria

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A broad term that could refer to high level IT policies that support business objectives, detailed technical and procedural requirements for specific areas of IT, or anything in between. Learn more in: Network Security Policy Automation: Enterprise Use Cases and Methodologies

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Is a plan of action usually based on certain principles, devised by a body. Learn more in: ICT Policies in Developing Countries: Objectives, Issues and Influencing Factors

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The information security policies are the high-level documents that define the security goals, approach, and strategies of the organization. Learn more in: Creating a Security Education, Training, and Awareness Program

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Guidelines document. Learn more in: Language Policy Execution: The Case of South African Universities

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The policy provides the overall intention, direction, principles and values of an organization in accordance to stakeholders’, legal, regulatory and standard requirements and the characteristics of the business, the organization, its location, assets and resources. It is a framework for setting objectives and measuring their achievement. Learn more in: An Information Security Model for Implementing the New ISO 27001

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Is an activity oriented ideologically to the decision-making of a group to achieve certain objectives. Learn more in: Organic Food Production and Consumption Policies and Strategies

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A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. Learn more in: US Cybersecurity Laws and Regulations: Current Trends and Recommendations for Improvement

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Government activities that are aimed at addressing social challenges and are executed through programs, processes, and politics. Learn more in: Learning From Abroad on SIM Card Registration Policy: The Case of Malawi

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Policy is a set of rules. They’re the dos and the don’ts of information security, again, within the framework of the philosophy. Learn more in: Information Security Policies: Precepts and Practices

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A plan of action agreed upon or chosen by a political party or business. Learn more in: Library Photocopy Policies

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An enforced guideline or regulation. Learn more in: Prospects and Challenges of Social Studies Teachers Professional Development in Nigeria

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Is a programme of actions adopted by a person, group, or government or a set of principles; it may be written o unwritten. Learn more in: Gender Digital Divide and National ICT Policies in Africa

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Is an activity oriented ideologically to the decision-making of a group to achieve certain objectives. Learn more in: Organic Food Production and Consumption Policies and Strategies

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A deliberate set of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Learn more in: Optimizing Supply Chains Through System Dynamics Modelling and Simulation: Lessons From the Navy

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Written statement, authorized by the KOS management, that describes the approach to be taken by the KOS for the management of information/knowledge. An example is the Preservation policy that describes the approach to be taken by the KOS for the preservation of objects accessioned into the KOS ( Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, 2011 , p. 1-4, adapted). Learn more in: Effectiveness of Reference Models for Knowledge Organization Systems: A Cross-Analysis of Requirements

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A set of government activities, which can be broadly characterized as regulations, national strategies/initiatives, and funding programs. Learn more in: Australia's Government Policy and Broadband Internet Access

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A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). However the term may also be used to denote what is actually done, even though it is unplanned. Learn more in: Research Policies for Information and Communication Technologies in Europe

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A governing principle, plan, course of action adopted by government or corporate body. Learn more in: Telecommunications Policy in Nigeria

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The alternatives that governments chose in order to deal with a specific problem that affects communities. Learn more in: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods, and Gender Configurations in Zimbabwe

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A policy if a deliberate plan of action intended to guide decision. Learn more in: Telecommunications Policy in Nigeria

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“Policy as a chain of decisions stretching from the statehouse to the classroom is a by-product of [many] games and relationships; no one is responsible for the whole thing” (Firestone, as cited by Fowler, 2000 ). Learn more in: Components of a Distance Education Evaluation System

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A statement of agreed positions or plan e.g. information security policy. Learn more in: Information Security Policies

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A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). Learn more in: ICT Policy Development Process in Africa

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Means the overall intention and direction as formally expressed by management. Learn more in: Developing an Internet and Intranet Usage Policy for a Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa

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An overarching plan of action developed for the achievement of a set of goals. Learn more in: Policy Options for E-Education in Nigeria

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A plan of action adopted by a government or ministry. Learn more in: Criteria for the Implementation of Learning Technologies

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is a plan of action intended to regulate conduct. Learn more in: The Nigerian National Information Technology (IT) Policy

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A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions in order to achieve an organisation’s objective. Learn more in: A Process Architecture Approach to Manage Health Process Reforms

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A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Learn more in: Organizing for Innovation in the Armed Forces: A Logical Thinking Process Approach

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A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual Learn more in: Advancing a Framework for Entrepreneurship Development in a Bioeconomy

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A policy is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). Learn more in: Integration of Policies and Regulatory Frameworks for the Convergent ICT Industry in Nigeria

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A plan of action to guide decisions and actions. The term may apply to government, private sector organizations and groups, and individuals. Learn more in: Sectoral Analysis of ICT Use in Nigeria

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A policy is a predetermined action pattern that is repeated by an entity whenever certain system conditions appear. Learn more in: Context-Aware Cloud Computing for Personal Learning Environment

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Action program for the nation or organization. Learn more in: Youth Participation in Politics: The Case of Zambian University Students

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the mechanism by which a reinforcement-learning agent chooses which action to execute next. Learn more in: Transfer Learning

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A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions in order to achieve an organisation’s objective. Learn more in: A Process Architecture Approach to Manage Health Process Reforms

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In the context of this chapter, a policy is a published statement describing any or all of infrastructure, community, participants, methods, obligations, requirements, jurisdictions, etc., sufficient for a participant to determine the trustworthiness of the publisher. For example, a federation of identity providers (a special case of the hub in section 3) may have a policy that all users shall have individual identity tokens (i.e. tokens must not be shared.) Some identity providers (i.e. token issuers) within the federation may further require that the tokens carry a reasonable resemblance of the token owner’s name. The policy of the federation, and possibly the individual providers, should be sufficient for a resource provider to determine the LoA (see above) of the federation and whether it is sufficient; possibly they will accept tokens only from the providers that issue named tokens. Of course, it is necessary that a participant with a policy follow the policy – an audit may be required to assuage the resource provider. Learn more in: Security and Trust in a Global Research Infrastructure

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This means a definite course or method of action selected from available alternatives and in light of given conditions to guide and determine present and future decisions. Learn more in: Educational Innovations in Nigeria: Planning, Reasons for Failure, and Prospects

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Is a course of principled action proposed and/or formally adopted by an institution, collective group, or individual. Learn more in: Characteristic and Agentic Qualities of Women Leaders Amidst Global Crises: Lessons for Higher Education

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It is a plan or course of action, of an enterprise, which is intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters to achieve certain goal / solution. Learn more in: Entrepreneurship Policies for Knowledge Economies: Policy Aspects

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A government decision that is backed by a sanction. Learn more in: Industrial and Urban Growth Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa Compared

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A document setting out the guidelines for the various legal, regulatory, normative, and ethical requirements of an area of activity, and identifying the main actors involved in the implementation of governance. Learn more in: An Information Governance Policy Is Required for My Institution, What to Do?: Practical Method and Tool Enabling Efficient Management for Corporate Information Assets

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It is a plan or course of action, of a government, institution, political party, or enterprise, which is intended to influence and determine decisions, actions, and other matters. Learn more in: Entrepreneurship Approach to Higher Education Policy Aspects

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Refers to guidelines as issued by the governance. Learn more in: Factors Creating Competitive Advantage for Family-Owned Business

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A plan or course of action intended to regulate conduct of individuals, organizations, etc. Learn more in: Liberalization of Telecommunications Sector

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Policy is the ability to define conditions for accepting, rejecting and notifying routes according to the actual information. Learn more in: Telecommunication Management Protocols

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A set of official agreements or a plan adopted by an organization, such as the EU at the supranational level, the government at the national level or the university at the institutional level. Learn more in: Global University Rankings in European Higher Education Policy and Practice: Institutional and National Responses From Slovenia and the Netherlands

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A set of rules adapted by an organization such as a company or government to maintain and further its organizational objectives. Learn more in: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry Into Sustainable Supply Chain Management

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Rules for voting in a neighborhood of sensing devices. Learn more in: Adaptive Principal Component Analysis-Based Outliers Detection Through Neighborhood Voting in Wireless Sensor Networks

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An organizational mandate that provides guidance regarding appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Learn more in: Disruptions to the Workplace Exploring the Policies and Legal Cases of Online Sexual Harassment: Policies and Laws About Online Sexual Harassment

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Defines the learning agent's way of behaving at a given time. a policy is a mapping from perceived states of the environment to actions to be taken when in those states. Learn more in: Distributed Learning Algorithm Applications to the Scheduling of Wireless Sensor Networks

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A definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, and pursued by a government, ruler, political party, business, etc. Learn more in: Effect of National Culture on Development of International Business in the Sultanate of Oman

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A set of long-term and multi-faced decision plans made by state and other policy authorities, aiming to address various aspects and challenges of social living. Learn more in: Role of Social Culture in Evaluation of Internet Policies: The Case of Everyday and Resistant Culture in Greece

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This refers to government decisions backed by an act of legislation. Learn more in: The Role of Industrial Development in Nigeria's Transformation From Oil to Cities: The Case of Birnin Kebbi

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Rules to direct behaviors in specific sectors or areas of intervention, established by a government body, called policymaker, invested of the authority to set such rules. The policymakers can be supranational (e.g., the EU Parliament), national (e.g., national Parliaments and Governments), bureaucratic (e.g., departments), sectoral (e.g., utilities regulators), regional or local (e.g., regional or local councils, regional or local healthcare authorities). Learn more in: Patient Advocacy and the Policy Making Process

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Plan or principle of action adopted or proposed by an individual, organization, or government. Learn more in: Plastic Pollution and Its Remedies: An Indian Scenario

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Guide to action to change what would otherwise occur based on resources allocation Learn more in: The Syndemic and One Health Nature of Pandemics: Arguments for Renewed Attention to Intelligence Management

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A specification of desired system behavior that can be used to specify either (1) what the system should do or (2) what the system should not do. Learn more in: OMACS: A Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems

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A deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). Learn more in: Organizational Password Policy

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It is typically described as a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Each university has a set of policies in terms of E-learning. Learn more in: Online Adult Education: Policy, Access, Completion and Equity

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The formal principles adopted by organisations to guide decision-making and action. Learn more in: Knowledge Sharing in an Organisation: A Practitioner Approach

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Is a set of rules defining actions to be executed. Typical policies include placement policies, scaling policies, or QoS-related policies. Learn more in: ONAP: An Open Source Toolkit for Zero Touch Automation

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Mapping between the world states and the preferred action to be executed in order to achieve a given set of goals. Learn more in: Learning-Based Planning

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A plan of action geared towards achieving the set goals. Learn more in: Educational Changes and Teacher Identity in Tanzania: Implications for Industrial Development

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“Policy as a chain of decisions stretching from the statehouse to the classroom is a by-product of [many] games and relationships; no one is responsible for the whole thing” (Firestone, as cited by Fowler, 2000 ). Learn more in: Developing an Effective Online Evaluation System

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Refers to guidelines as issued by the governance. Learn more in: Post-Pandemic Restorative Talent Management Strategy for SME Development

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Prudence or wisdom in the management of affairs. a high-level overall plan embracing the general goals and acceptable procedures especially of a governmental body. Learn more in: Quality Management Approach to Workload and Performance Evaluation: Interdependencies for Fair Measures

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A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). Learn more in: Organizational Software Use Policies