GitHub use in public administration in Canada: Early experience with a new collaboration tool

Longo, Justin; Kelley, Tanya M.

doi:10.1111/capa.12192

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“…Providing facilitated spaces for participant‐to‐participant feedback can help to both enhance dialogue and result in accurate attribution of ideas (as in the case of the DC150 feedback platform). New technologies such as GitHub may indicate possible promising lines of research, where a chain of custody can be established between a contribution and the final policy output based on accountability traces even where participants are protected by anonymity (Longo and Kelley ). However, dangers also lurk in providing government‐sponsored opportunities for participants to talk to other participants in policy forums (Rowe ).…”

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The evolution of citizen and stakeholder engagement in Canada, from Spicer to #Hashtags

Longo¹

2017

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Government‐led citizen and stakeholder engagement is undertaken with the broad aims of improving government effectiveness and strengthening perceived legitimacy for government action. However, some aspects of the digital era that are challenging and stretching these traditions include changing economics of attention, heightened expectations of citizens and stakeholders, and a reconfiguration of the nature of policymaking discourse. Seven Government of Canada citizen and stakeholder engagement cases, spread over the past 27 years, are reviewed against the emergence of digital technologies within the context of traditional engagement exercises to understand how governments are experimenting with new approaches, and how new models may still be needed to respond to this shifting technology landscape. A future research agenda is sketched that anticipates how expanding technological capabilities, changing expectations on the part of citizens and stakeholders, and new approaches to policy discourse might require a reappraisal of our concepts of citizen and stakeholder engagement.

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The evolution of citizen and stakeholder engagement in Canada, from Spicer to #Hashtags

Longo¹

2017

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“…Using GitHub can drastically increase the number of touchpoints with stakeholders in a project as well as their communication with one another [27], meaning that GitHub can be used by non-technical users. Due to GitHub's popularity, generated by the free and open-source software movement, the use of GitHub in GovTech involves social knowledge creation, open science, open collaboration, and open governance that moves beyond the original core stakeholders [28]. Recently, the governments of many countries have encouraged software engineers to create and share open-source code on GitHub and allow third parties to share their changes to the code [25].…”

Section: Open Data and Open Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Education Between GovTech and Civic Tech

Yoshida

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2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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In the recent movement towards smart societies, smart governments supported by GovTech and smart cities developed through Civic Tech have become known as dominant structures enabled by information and communications technology. Since GovTech and Civic Tech share the goal of giving citizens better and safer lives through their engagement with government and technology, the development of online public services is characterized by the use of collaborative production methods involving various stakeholders and players. Open data, collaboration, and systematic teamwork are key to understanding this production of heterarchical structures. This study reviews previous cases of collaboration between GovTech and Civic Tech, identifies the dominant mechanisms of the smart society, and summarizes existing pedagogical and industrial theoretical systems, mindsets, and skillsets with the aim of developing content for a university course. Double loop learning, design thinking, the Agile methodology, and the lean principle are identified as theoretical systems. Our findings are arranged so that they can be applied in the content of a university-level educational technology course, which we designed to develop students’ transformative competencies to enable them to become active citizens. In addition, we compared the processes involved in observed theoretical systems and conventional pedagogical theories to clarify the differences in their mechanisms. We conclude with a discussion of the need to recognize frameworks of different paradigms to prepare students for transformative social activities.

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“…While GitHub was not designed explicitly for librarians, it is a tool that has increasingly proved useful in many disciplines, including librarianship. Longo and Kelley (2016) argue that GitHub's popularity has spread to a range of diverse fields. As GitHub spreads across disciplinary boundaries, scholarship on GitHub begins to appear in many fields.…”

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“…While git has existed since 2005, the subsequent growth of GitHub has fueled the expansion of git-based workflows beyond git's core developer community: "As the uses and users of GitHub move beyond its original core community of software developers, the present and potential impact on fields such as social knowledge creation, open science, open collaboration, and open governance warrants consideration" (Longo & Kelley, 2016, p. 617). Recent work has been done on the use of GitHub in fields as diverse as computational biology (Blischak et al, 2016;Perez-Riverol et al, 2016) and public administration (Longo & Kelley, 2016;Mergel, 2015), among others.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of the Use of GitHub by Librarians and Non-Librarians

Eaton

2021

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Abstract Objective – GitHub is a popular tool that allows software developers to collaborate and share their code on the web. Librarians have adopted GitHub to support their own work, sharing code in support of their libraries. This paper asks: How does librarians’ use of GitHub compare to that of other users? Methods – To retrieve quantitative data on GitHub users, we queried the GitHub APIs (application programming interfaces). By assembling data on librarians’ use of GitHub, as well as on a comparison group, we provided preliminary comparisons of these two samples. We analyzed and visualized this data across a number of variables to offer salient insights as to how librarians compare to randomly selected GitHub users. Results – Librarians regularly use a more diverse range of programming languages than the comparison group, hinting at a broad range of possible uses of code in libraries. While the librarians’ sample group did not demonstrate statistically significant differences from the comparison group on most measures of activity and popularity, they scored significantly higher in reach and productivity than the comparison group. This could be due to librarians’ greater longevity on GitHub, as well as their greater investment in GitHub as a tool for sharing. Conclusion – Our data suggest that librarians are actively building their libraries with code and sharing the results. While it was unclear whether librarians were more active or popular on GitHub than the comparison group, it was clear that they demonstrated statistically significant outperformance in terms of reach and productivity. To explain these findings, we hypothesized that librarians’ embrace of GitHub is in line with widely held values of “openness” in the library profession.

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GitHub use in public administration in Canada: Early experience with a new collaboration tool

Cited by 7 publications

References 80 publications

The evolution of citizen and stakeholder engagement in Canada, from Spicer to #Hashtags

The evolution of citizen and stakeholder engagement in Canada, from Spicer to #Hashtags

Education Between GovTech and Civic Tech

A Comparative Analysis of the Use of GitHub by Librarians and Non-Librarians

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