Diplo E-Participation Day Geneva, 19 June 2013

Guy Girardet

guyg@diplomacy.edu @guy.girardet

What is E-Participation? e-Participation means the use of ICT for enabling and strengthening citizen participation in democratic decision-making processes

increasing the transparency of the political process;

enhancing the direct involvement on participation of citizen;

improving the quality of opinion formation by opening new spaces of information and deliberation

Source: E-Participation Guide (UNDP)

Mechanics of E-Participation Increased government transparency and openness

Real-time public two-way communication and interaction.

Involvement of the service deliverers in design.

Improved efficiency – collaboration of public and private sector

Bidirectional information and communications technologies

Government as provider, convener and enabler

Open data provides new possibilities for finding problems and solutions

Citizen engagement moves beyond political elites

Source: From Government 2.0 to Society 2.0Harvard Kennedy School

Open Data Charter – June 18 2013 The world is witnessing the growth of a global movement facilitated by technology and social media and fuelled by information – one that contains enormous potential to create more accountable, efficient, responsive, and effective governments and businesses, and to spur economic growth.

2) Open data sit at the heart of this global movement.

3) Access to data allows individuals and organisations to develop new insights and innovations that can improve the lives of others and help to improve the flow of information within and between countries. While governments and businesses collect a wide range of data, they do not always share these data in ways that are easily discoverable, useable, or understandable by the public.

Technology as agent of change

Citizen protests

Protest Maptivism in Turkey

Civil Society Online Petitions

Citizen <-> Local Government

Pin Responder

International Organisations

MY World Global Survey - Voting

Survey - Results

Honest Government

Phone and Internet Access

World We Want Discussion

G-Everyone - Crowdsourcing

Transparency

World Bank – Mapping Projects

Criticisms

Limited to Connected - Digital Divide

Skews results to online, educated. Socio-

economic bias

Polarization: undue influence of special interest

groups

Clictivism

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