citizen technology & open government
DESCRIPTION
Presented at: e-Democracy Conference 2011September, 25th-27thOhrid, Macedoniahttp://e-democracy.mk/TRANSCRIPT
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Jared Ford
ICT Programs
demworks.org | @jdeepford | [email protected]
Citizen Technology & Open Government
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Democracy Technology
• Goals
Promote efficient, open & accountable government
Strengthen democratic institutions (Parties & CSOs)
Advance citizen engagement, open political space
• Evolution
Citizen Political Technology
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Democratization of content production and dissemination.
Shareable, user-generated content (platforms)
Allows mobilizing populations, organizing events, sharing information, and consolidating messaging.
Influences the dynamics of power and behavior of citizens, elected officials, and government institutions
Social Media
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Arab Spring
• Social media played a central role in shaping political debates
• An increase in online revolutionary conversations often preceded major events on the ground.
• Social media helped spread democratic ideas across international borders. pitpi.org
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Political Process Monitoring
• Citizen oversight of democratic governance
• Election monitoring, participatory budgeting, legislative tracking
• Tools which collect, analyze and share information
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afghanistanelectiondata.org
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istinomer.rs
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votainteligente.cl
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Implications for Open Government
• All countries must build democratic institutions that accommodate the new role of citizen technologies.
• OGP (Criteria = Engagement, Access to Information)
• eGov to We-GOV
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Open Government Data
• Open governmental data becomes better data via input from the public.
• Citizen-oriented tools are crucial to ensuring a vibrant online and offline public sphere
• Social media allows governments to reach vast networks of people at once and defray costs.
(transparency-initiative.org)
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Open governmental data becomes better data via input from the public
recovery.gov
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Ensure a vibrant online and offline public sphere
www.ferizbori.mk/poddrzete-ne
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Reach vast networks of people at once and defray costs.
• Inec.org
inecnigeria.org
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Recommendations
• Documents should be structured (data.gov/semantic)
• Multiple forms of access must be provided (mkssindia.org)
• Single-point portal (data.gov.uk)
• All data should be Cloud-based (socrata.com)
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Documents should be structured with semantic mark-up
data.gov/semantic
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Multiple forms of access
mkssindia.org
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Single-point portal
data.gov.uk
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All data should be Cloud-based
socrata.com
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How can we address citizen demand?