EU Project WeGov – Where eGovernment meets the eSociety

-- Overview --Timo Wandhoefer

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

@ IFIP e-government conference 2011, EGOV2011, DelftAugust 28 – September 2, 2011

Research Project

• http://www.wegov-project.eu • Funded with support from the European

Commission (01/2010 – 06/2012)• SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

THEME ICT 2009.7.3 ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling

• Consortium

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Overall Objective

“Enrich the two-way dialogue between citizens and politics throughout the internet”

“Instead of developing a new eParticipation platform, WeGov is build-up on the capability

of Social Networking Sites”

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Approach

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Nuclear phase-out

Climate friendly

Bridging-technology

Dashboard

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User behavior analysis [4]• Measuring discussion activity

Hot topic opinion analysis [4]• Characteristic: agreement / disagreement• List of keywords >> most relevant

comments >> Emotional comments

Graphical Outline

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Progress

• Use cases for citizen politics dialogue [1]• Legal and ethical analysis [2]• Basic functionality extracted [3]• First prototype running a basic scenario [4]• Presentation German Parliament [5]• Scenario modification – ‘citations’ [6]• Initial toolbox evaluation support policy

maker’s everyday workflow

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Future Works

• Workshop eChallenges conference (Oct ‘11)• Final toolbox (Dec ‘11)• Evaluation of final toolbox (June ‘12)

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References[1] M. Addis, S. Taylor, R. Fletcher, C. Wilson, F. Fallon, H. Alani, T. Wandhoefer, und P. Mutschke, “New ways for policy

makers to interact with citizens through open social network sites - a report on initial results,” Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: an impact assessment (IPP2010), 16-17 September 2010, Oxford, UK. URL: http://goo.gl/4Pqsf

[2] S. Joshi, E. Karamagioli, T. Wandhoefer, F. Fallon, R. Fletcher, C. Wilson, und B.I. Nasser, D5.1 Scenario definition, advisory board and legal/ethical review. URL: http://goo.gl/8H41r

[3] Wandhoefer, Timo; Thamm, Mark; Mutschke, Peter (2011): Extracting a basic use case to let policy makers interact with citizens on Social Networking Sites: a report on initial results. In: Parycek, Peter; Kripp, Manuel J.; Edelmann, Noella (Hrsg.): CeDEM11 : proceedings of the international conference on e-democracy and open government ; 5-6 May 2011, Danube University Krems, Austria, Krems: Ed. Donau-Univ. Krems, S. 355-358. URL: http://goo.gl/0FssB

[4] A. Claes, S. Sizov, S. Angeletou, J. Reynolds, S. Taylor, und T. Wandhoefer, D4.2 Initial WeGov toolbox, 2010. URL: http://goo.gl/22oGi

[5] Wandhoefer, Timo; Thamm, Mark (2011): WeGov Projektvorstellung und Live Demo des Prototypen. Diskussion aktueller Anwendungsfälle. Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, 31.03.2011. URL: http://goo.gl/7fKCb

[6] Joshi, Wandhoefer, Thamm, Mathiak, Van Eeckhaute, „Rethinking Governance via Social Networking: The case of direct vs. indirect stakeholder injection“, International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2011), 26-28 September 2011, Tallinn, Estonia. URL: coming soon...

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