Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance: Technologies and Methods for Online Citizen Engagement in Public Policy Making

✍ Scribed by Martin Karlsson (auth.), Yannis Charalabidis, Sotirios Koussouris (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations, governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed e-Government. Moving towards open governance roadmaps worldwide, electronic participation and citizen engagement stand out as a new domain, important both for decision makers and citizens; and over the last decade, there have been a variety of related pilot projects and innovative approaches.

With contributions from leading researchers, Charalabidis and Koussouris provide the latest research findings such as theoretical foundations, principles, methodologies, architectures, technical frameworks, cases and lessons learnt within the domain of open, collaborative governance and online citizen engagement. The book is divided into three sections: Section one, “Public Policy Debate Foundations,” lays the foundations regarding processes and methods for scoping, planning, evaluating and transforming citizen engagement. The second section, “Information and Communication Technologies for Citizen Participation,” details practical approaches to designing and creating collaborative governance infrastructures and citizen participation for businesses and administrations. Lastly, the third section on “Future Research Directions of Open, Collaborative ICT-enabled Governance” provides a constructive critique of the developments in the past and presents prospects regarding future challenges and research directions.

The book is mainly written for academic researchers and graduate students working in the computer, social, political and management sciences. Its audience includes researchers and practitioners in e-Governance, public administration officials, policy and decision makers at the local, national and international level engaged in the design and creation of policies and services, and ICT professionals engaged in e-Governance and policy modelling projects and solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Democratic Legitimacy and Recruitment Strategies in eParticipation Projects....Pages 3-20
Collaboration for Open Innovation Processes in Public Administrations....Pages 21-37
An Integrated Methodology for the Evaluation of ePetitions....Pages 39-59
Assessing a Measurement Model for Digital Political Participation: A Multidisciplinary Point of View....Pages 61-78
Online Engagement from the Grassroots: Reflecting on over a Decade of ePetitioning Experience in Europe and the UK....Pages 79-94
Evaluating eParticipation Projects and Lessons Learnt....Pages 95-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Knowing the Law as a Prerequisite to Participative eGovernment: The Role of Semantic Technologies....Pages 119-138
Regional Participation Model to Engage Citizens in Distant Decision-Making....Pages 139-155
Visualisation of Online Discussion Forums....Pages 157-179
Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy....Pages 181-197
Open Collaboration in Policy Development: Concept and Architecture to Integrate Scenario Development and Formal Policy Modelling....Pages 199-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
ICT as the Facilitator of Postmodern and Empowered Forms of Citizenship: Myth or Reality?....Pages 223-240
A Critical Analysis of EU-Funded eParticipation....Pages 241-262
ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling: Visionary Directions and Research Paths....Pages 263-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-296

✦ Subjects

Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Public Administration; Computers and Society; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Innovation/Technology Management