Guidelines for Designing Deliberative Digital Habitats: Learning from e-Participation for Open Data Initiatives

Cindio, Fiorella De

doi:10.15353/joci.v8i2.3040

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“…These kinds of changes are not easily made; they call for considerable change of processes and even mindset within the public sector. They also demand investment in technology and moreover, deliberative design of collaboration platforms, including both the community and society dimensions (de Cindio, 2012).…”

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The Sustainable Value of Open Government Data

Jetzek¹,

Avital²,

Bjørn‐Andersen³

2019

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In June 2011, I stood in Kastrup Airport with my three daughters, coming to Denmark to stay. My husband had already arrived; my dog was on the way. Both my husband and I had left good careers and a great life in order to allow me to fulfill my dream of pursuing a PhD. I have to say, I was very apprehensive at this moment. My (then) 16year-old daughter had decided to stay with her father and continue her education in Iceland, and the prospect of being separated from her was next to unbearable. Moreover, I had absolutely no idea how to get into a PhD program. Prior to coming to Denmark, I had sent a couple of emails and gotten quite unenthusiastic responses. Fortunately, a few days before leaving I happened to run into a former colleague, Agnar Hanson. Agnar offered to introduce me to a professor he had collaborated with at CBS, Niels Bjørn-Andersen.To get an opportunity to meet with Niels Bjørn was truly a turning event for me. Without his kind nature, willingness to help, great network and clear insight into interesting research areas I suppose I would never even have started. After meeting him, it only took a couple of meetings before we had ensured the financial support of a large IT vendor in Denmark, KMD. We resolved that I would study a very interesting e-Government program in Denmark, the Basic Data Program (BDP). The BDP is an Open Data Initiative, led by the Danish Agency for Digitization, which also agreed to participate as a third party. After "only" a couple of hundreds of emails, everything was in place, and we sent an application to the Industrial PhD fund. The (second) application was approved in June 2012, exactly a year after my arrival in Denmark. July 1 st 2012, I started to work on my dissertation called The Sustainable Value of Open Government Data. These last three years have been the most challenging but also most rewarding years of my carrier. It is a bit like running an intellectual marathon, and I did hit some walls on the way. Suffice to say, this is not a tale of one woman's journey. I have so many people to thank who have helped me on the way, and all of them have provided something unique to this project. Thus, I will go through my list of acknowledgements in no particular order.The only one who will get a special place is Professor Niels Bjørn-Andersen, as without him this project would never have been born. He spent an incredible amount of energy and time to get me to the starting line, which is not a very rewarding process. I hope he knows that I have not, and never will, forget his help and his kindness. He also To all of you, THANK YOU! If not for all these wonderful people, I doubt I would have managed to finish this journey successfully.

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Section: Participation and Collaborationmentioning

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The Sustainable Value of Open Government Data

Jetzek¹,

Avital²,

Bjørn‐Andersen³

2019

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“…We used an e-participation platform developed jointly by the Foundation RCM (FRCM) and the Civic Informatics Laboratory (LIC) (De Cindio, 2012) that supports decision-making and helps to finalize discussions to arrive at a consensus among participants. The platform was implemented mainly in PHP using the CAKEPHP development framework and the Smarty template engine.…”

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“…The purpose of the e-participation environment was to support and enhance citizen participation both in situ and ex situ by means of an online deliberation platform that improves community networks with deliberative tools (De Cindio et al , 2007). This e-participation environment had been tested in several projects (De Cindio, 2012). De Cindio et al (2007) elaborated on understanding if and how the technical and design choices of the e-participation environment may (positively or negatively) affect patterns of system use.…”

Section: The E-participation Environment Version 201mentioning

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“…E-participation technologies may offer guidance in designing such systems, as design is a key aspect of informatics (De Cindio, 2012). However, the important role design plays is often underestimated because of the ease of use of current Web-based systems.…”

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“…It is widely recognized that there is no recipe for triggering active participation or successful technology appropriation when using social interaction environments. In fact, the spark that fires participation is largely unpredictable (De Cindio, 2012).…”

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Learning from appropriation practices

Zubaidi-Polli

Verdezoto

2018

IJPCC

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Purpose Public participation is an important – if not the most important – pillar of democracy. When designing new e-participation environments, it is advisable to consider previous appropriation practices of deliberative community networks to encourage broad participation. This can be achieved by sharing appropriation practices and by supporting the situated development of use, which may not only increase user participation but also decrease user frustration. Design/methodology/approach This paper addresses previously analyzed e-participation appropriation practices and technological limitations that participants faced when using the e-participation environment from the Aarhus’s Artwork design experiment. The lessons learned from these limitations and the appropriation practices identified help us in designing the next generation of e-participation environments and in counteracting their unsuccessful appropriation. Findings Potential design improvements for future collaborative writing e-environments that facilitate location-agnostic participation, and improvements that enable successful technology appropriation are presented. Originality/value These improvements are important to future research to inform a hybrid of in situ and ex situ technologies that enable collaborative writing to increase public participation in leisure spaces, engage a broader range of citizens and thus also encourage less motivated people.

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Open Data Governance as a Theoretical Concept: A Stakeholder and Institutional Analysis

Kassen

2022

Open Data Governance and Its Actors

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Guidelines for Designing Deliberative Digital Habitats: Learning from e-Participation for Open Data Initiatives

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