E-Participation

2010 ◽  
pp. 258-270
Author(s):  
Peter Demediuk ◽  
Rolf Solli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Inclusive Processes ◽  
Electronic Technologies

Citizen participation in government decision making through online and other electronic technologies has been termed e-participation, and has the potential to facilitate better decisions, better citizens, and better government. The chapter examines the extent to which progressive e-participation practice interacts with local government decision making and contributes to the espoused benefits of citizen participation. The international case studies indicate that e-participation can inform the intelligence, design, and choice phases of decision making and transform the way future local government decisions are made by formalising new inclusive processes and building community capabilities and motivation. E-participation can positively contribute to community capabilities, political relevance, better problem identification, and more relevant solutions, but the initiatives studied were costly and resource intensive. These e-participation initiatives provide robust examples of utilizing progressive information communication technologies because of the novel ways in which technology is applied, and due to the significant affect on information flows and decision making.

E-Participation in Local Government Decision Making

2010 ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Peter Demediuk ◽  
Rolf Solli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Technology Choice ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Government Decision

Modern society will only reach its potential when citizens individually and collectively are able to use their knowledge and capabilities to shape their lives and communities. Citizen participation in government decision making that uses online technologies is one way of leveraging this capacity, and has been termed e-participation. Case studies of a Swedish and an Australian local government examine how e-participation fits into initiatives to increase community involvement in decision making. Interactive chat sessions between stakeholders can facilitate debate. Information portals can provide supporting information in interesting and accessible ways. E-voting can enable greater input and influence by a wider number of citizens. But ultimately the technology choice and e-participation implementation must be driven by the objectives of the engagement exercise, and these can range from better decisions to community capacity building and issues of trust and legitimacy.

Digital Community Planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enzo Falco
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Oriented Activity

Citizen participation in planning as a decision-making and future-oriented activity is still in the hands of government. New advances in Information Communication Technologies and community informatics have allowed new forms of e-participation and e-planning to emerge. The article refers to theories of social psychology and digital rationality to support the use of ICTs and Web 2.0 in planning as means to deliver more meaningful and independent participatory processes. Moreover, it looks into different planning approaches to and theories of participation to argue and conclude that a digital community and plural planning approach may provide communities with a better setting to move up Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation. The article presents three different open source software and one proprietary software which can be used in practice by citizen groups to produce planning documents. Based on these findings, future research will explore the application of the approach and tools in an urban setting in close collaboration with grass-roots and citizens organizations.

scholarly journals Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 190-203
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Management Technique ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Data Elements

The proliferation of ICT (information communication technologies) throughout the business environment has lead to exponentially increasing amounts of data and information generation. Although these technologies were implemented to enhance and facilitate superior decision making, the result is information chaos and information overload; the productivity paradox (O’Brien, 2005; Laudon & Laudon, 2004; Jessup & Valacich, 2005; Haag et al. 2004). Knowledge management (KM) is a modern management technique designed to make sense of this information chaos by applying strategies, structures and techniques to apparently unrelated and seemingly irrelevant data elements and information in order to extract germane knowledge to aid superior decision making. Critical to knowledge management is the application of ICT. However it is the configuration of these technologies that is important to support the techniques of knowledge management. This chapter discusses how the process oriented knowledge generation framework of Boyd and the use of sophisticated ICT can enable the design of a networkcentric healthcare perspective that enables effective and efficient healthcare operations.

scholarly journals Digital Competencies and Professional attitudes as Predictors of Universities academics' Digital Technologies Usage: Example of Al-Hussein Bin Talal

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Jwaifell ◽  
Osama M Kraishan ◽  
Dima Waswas ◽  
Raed O Salah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Professional Attitudes ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
Technology Tool ◽  
Electronic Technologies

Information Communication Technologies (ICT) has experienced remarkable development and changes provoked by the spread of digitization and the rise of electronic technologies. Those changes made it urgent to understand academics' perceptions and professional usage of those technologies in higher education. To understand the academics' perception of digital technologies in higher education we have conducted this study in Al-Hussein Bin Talal University (AHU) as an example of academics' digital competencies, professional attitudes, and professional application of digital tools, and possibility of predicting the degree of application of digital tools through the degree of academics' competencies and professional attitudes . This study carried out in Ma'an, a poor-environment area of Southern Governorate in Jordan, with 107 academics who work in AHU as an instructors, has one aim which is to explore how they perceive new digital technologies. Most important result of the study showed that academics competence, attitudes, and digital technologies tools usage are in average level. Moreover the study showed that digital technology tool usage's degree can be predicted through the degrees of the academics' competence and attitudes.. Recommendations were included in this study. 

Australia Local Government and E-Governance

2009 ◽  
pp. 174-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin O’Toole
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Using Data

This chapter analyses local government’s response to the pressure to modernise its structures through its use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to execute its broad range of tasks. The chapter begins by discussing Chadwick and May’s (2003) three basic models of e-government; managerial, consultative and participatory. Using data collected from an analysis of 658 local government websites in Australia together with existing survey research the chapter then analyses the extent to which local government sites fit into the three models. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the issues and problems faced by local government in its attempt to develop e-governance as both an extension of administrative as well as democratic functions.

Digital Community Planning

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-176
Author(s):  
Enzo Falco
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Oriented Activity

Citizen participation in planning as a decision-making and future-oriented activity is still in the hands of government. New advances in Information Communication Technologies and community informatics have allowed new forms of e-participation and e-planning to emerge. The article refers to theories of social psychology and digital rationality to support the use of ICTs and Web 2.0 in planning as means to deliver more meaningful and independent participatory processes. Moreover, it looks into different planning approaches to and theories of participation to argue and conclude that a digital community and plural planning approach may provide communities with a better setting to move up Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation. The article presents three different open source software and one proprietary software which can be used in practice by citizen groups to produce planning documents. Based on these findings, future research will explore the application of the approach and tools in an urban setting in close collaboration with grass-roots and citizens organizations.

Digital Community Planning

2018 ◽  
pp. 750-774
Author(s):  
Enzo Falco
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Oriented Activity

Citizen participation in planning as a decision-making and future-oriented activity is still in the hands of government. New advances in Information Communication Technologies and community informatics have allowed new forms of e-participation and e-planning to emerge. The article refers to theories of social psychology and digital rationality to support the use of ICTs and Web 2.0 in planning as means to deliver more meaningful and independent participatory processes. Moreover, it looks into different planning approaches to and theories of participation to argue and conclude that a digital community and plural planning approach may provide communities with a better setting to move up Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation. The article presents three different open source software and one proprietary software which can be used in practice by citizen groups to produce planning documents. Based on these findings, future research will explore the application of the approach and tools in an urban setting in close collaboration with grass-roots and citizens organizations.

Digital Community Planning

2019 ◽  
pp. 1490-1514
Author(s):  
Enzo Falco
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Oriented Activity

Citizen participation in planning as a decision-making and future-oriented activity is still in the hands of government. New advances in Information Communication Technologies and community informatics have allowed new forms of e-participation and e-planning to emerge. The article refers to theories of social psychology and digital rationality to support the use of ICTs and Web 2.0 in planning as means to deliver more meaningful and independent participatory processes. Moreover, it looks into different planning approaches to and theories of participation to argue and conclude that a digital community and plural planning approach may provide communities with a better setting to move up Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation. The article presents three different open source software and one proprietary software which can be used in practice by citizen groups to produce planning documents. Based on these findings, future research will explore the application of the approach and tools in an urban setting in close collaboration with grass-roots and citizens organizations.

E-Governance in Australian Local Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 2163-2176
Author(s):  
Kevin O’Toole
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Government Web Sites ◽  
New Public ◽  
Using Data

Local government in Australia is under pressure to modernize its structures in the new public management environment, as well as respond to increasing demands from its local electorates for better delivery of services and greater levels of participation in the democratic process. This article analyzes local government’s response to these pressures through its use of information communication technologies (ICT) to execute its broad range of tasks. I begin by discussing e-governance in the light of Chadwick and May’s (2003) three basic models of interaction between the state and its citizens: managerial, consultative, and participatory. Using data collected from an analysis of 658 local government Web sites in Australia together with existing survey research, I analyze the extent to which local government sites fit into the three models. The article then concludes with a discussion of the issues and problems faced by local government in its attempt to develop e-governance, as both an extension of its administrative as well as democratic functions.

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