Search results for "e-participation"
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Online Activities to Mobilize Smart Cities
2018
Designing Deliberation Systems
2010
In a liberal democracy, the evolution of political agendas and formation of policy involves deliberation: serious consideration of political issues. Modern day political participation is dependent on widespread deliberation supported by information and communication technologies, which also offer the potential to revitalize and transform citizen engagement in democracy. Although the majority of web 2.0 systems enable these discourses to some extent, government institutions commission and manage specialized deliberation systems (information systems designed to support participative discourse) intended to promote citizen engagement. The most common examples of these are political discussio…
Eppur si muove. Partecipare per contribuire alle decisioni nei contesti urbani fragili
2021
Il progetto, concluso in periodo di COVID19, ha attivato percorsi di tipo partecipativo sul modello del dibattito pubblico sia in presenza che mediante utilizzo delle tecnologie di comunicazione e informazione (ICT) via web. Sia il Comune di Palermo che la Valletta hanno realizzato percorsi partecipativi culminati in eventi che hanno raccolto le considerazioni finali utili alla costruzione di linee guida per le politiche pubbliche orientate all’accessibilità del patrimonio per tutti. Il contributo muove dalla analisi dei metodi dell’applicazione delle tecnologie ICT agli approcci partecipativi per le decisioni in ambito pubblico. Tali strumenti non risolvono il conflitto sociale ma a volte …
Understanding the dynamics in e-Participation initiatives: Looking through the genre and stakeholder lenses
2011
Accepted version of an article published in the journal: Government Information Quarterly. Also available from the publisher at: http//dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2010.10.005 Conventionally, e-Participation initiatives are considered to be successful only if users use these services. While the growing body of e-Participation literature has listed and studied challenges and barriers to achieving this end, conceptual clarity on why such projects are considered as failures is yet to be achieved. We argue that this is due to the inadequate understanding of the complex stakeholder dynamics of an e-Participation project. In this paper, we seek to address this knowledge gap by proposing that using St…
The Current State of Social Media Research for eParticipation in Developing Countries: A Literature Review
2016
While there is an increasing interest for conducting research on the importance of social media within the eParticipation area, more emphasis is still needed within the context of developing countries. We address this need by presenting a literature review on social media within eParticipation in developing countries, to add to the understanding of how these technologies influence the political environment. We discuss trends, contributions and challenges within this area, and propose a future research agenda. Furthermore, we propose a model of social media for eParticipation from a process view perspective to guide future research in this field.
Women e-participation: glass ceiling decrease?
2012
This paper aims to review useful theoretical frame work able to encapsulate new frontiers of research on women political participation. In particular based on the feminist dichotomy of public and private sphere it investigates how Internet can enrol women in solving glass ceiling in political activism and participation considering its grassroots networked nature.
The shape of eParticipation:Characterizing an emerging research area
2008
Author's version of an article published in Government Information Quarterly, 25 (2008), 400-428. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2007.04.007 The phenomenon of eParticipation is receiving increasing attention, demonstrated by recent technology implementations, experiments, government reports, and research programs. Understanding such an emerging field is a complex endeavor because there is no generally agreed upon definition of the field, no clear overview of the research disciplines or methods it draws upon, and because the boundaries of the field are undecided. Using conventional literature review techniques, we identify 131 scientific articles consid…
The Political Click: Political Participation through E-Petitions in Germany
2010
Electronic petitions can serve as an influential mechanism for political participation. We present a study on the dynamics in the German e-petition system which was introduced in late 2008. Drawing on a data set of signatures, we analyze four aspects: (a) the types of petitions found, (b) the temporal dynamics of petitions, (c) the types of users found, and (d) the intersection of different petitions' supporter populations. We present evidence that (a) the system is dominated by a very small number of high-volume petitions and (b) these high-volume petitions have a delayed boosting effect on the base activity in the petition system. We furthermore (c) present a typology of users, showing th…
Ethical E-Participation
2014
The most recent forms of e-participation seem to provide new issues that need to be discussed. One such discussion involves the role of GIS. Can an ethically aware GIS be conceived? What does it mean for a GIS to be ethical at all? Throughout this paper, first the authors create a theoretical framework to encompass four key elements that lead us to the definition of ethical digital mapping: GIS ethics, social justice, power, and participation. Then they introduce the concept of PPGIS (Public Participation GIS), and argue that only a ‘qualitative turn' can enhance their importance in decision-making processes. Finally, the authors discuss an experiment that is currently taking place in Paler…
Democracy Squared: Designing On-Line Political Communities to Accommodate Conflicting Interests
2005
Published version of an article published in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 17 (2), 133-168. Also available from the publisher at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol17/iss2/5. On-line political communities, such as the Norwegian site Demokratitorget (Democracy Square), are often designed according to a set of un-reflected assumptions about the political interests of their potential members. In political science, democracy is not taken as given in this way, but can be represented by different models which characterize different relationships between politicians and the citizens they represent. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative content analysis to analyze the communicat…