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Partners or Foes?Exchange of Good Practices in Monitoring of Government Policies and Processes in

Enlargement Countries

Skopje, Macedonia, 4th of July 2012

New Technologies and Participation: A Cure or a Pretext?

Political informatics:which e-participation for NGOs?

Simon Delakorda, M.Sc.

www.inepa.si / www.inepa.eu

Institute for Electronic Participation


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Electronic participation refers to...

ICT-supported participation in processes involved ingovernment and governance. Processes may concernadministration, service delivery, decision making and policymaking. (Rose et al 2007, 3)


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ICTs & political democracy

Models of democracy

Elitist-

competitiveLegalist Pluralist Plebiscitary Participatory

e-access x x x x x

e-petition x x

e-consultation x x x

e-voting x x

e-referendum xe-forum x x x

e-

democr

acytechniques

e-poll x x x

Source: Delakorda, 2003


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Transparencyof participation

Societal conflictsmanagement

Accountable

decisions

Good governance

Legitimacy

Innovative approach

Source: www.evropske-razprave.si


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Meaningful resultsdelivery

Administration ofrelevant information

Argumentative

responsiveness

Stakeholders

inputs facilitation


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Since 2006...

more than 1.000 published contributions

25.000 unique visitors

9 consultation reports from facilitators

17 official feedback from MEPs

ePractice Editors Choice recognition 2007

Informal learning NEFIKS recognition 2011


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Strengths and weaknesses

strengths weaknesses

e-petition

low costs

easy to implement

easy to use

viral dissemination

community building

click democracy

critical mass

political power game

impact?

privacy / security

e-consultation

deliberation

interactivity

users generated content

institutionalization

impact (feedback)?

complexity

user-centred design

resources

facilitation

privacy / security


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Needs of NGOs in e-participation area

Central and Eastern European Citizen's Network (CEE CN) andInstitute for Electronic Participation (INePA) 2012 survey:

- partnerships / networking

- education / training

- funding

- technical support

- human resources


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Present & future developments

NGOs Political parties Governance

grass-roots digitaldemocracy

user participation

user-centered design

user-generated content

openness

collective intelligence

collaboration

community building

pirate politics

swarm

liquid democracy

inner party democracy

adhocracy

political innovation

global dimension

e-governance

citizens sourcing

citizens driven participation

co-creation

open innovation

collective opinions /governance

continuous engagement

life event / identity drivenengagement


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Democratic risks of digital society

digital inequality

internet control*

commodification of internet

technocratic e-government*

fake e-participation*

* Essential for non-governmental organizations to address theseissues as e-democracy intermediaries (research, advocacy and

watchdogging).


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e-Participation challenges forSouth East Europe

e-Participation development gap

unclear state of the art

political, social, cultural and legal issues

addressing common regional issues based on cross-bordercooperation

a unique eParticipation potential in relation to the westernEurope (regional approach to eDemocracy)


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