{"title":"Smart Government – The Potential of Intelligent Networking in Government and Public Administration","authors":"J. V. Lucke","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.22","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing numbers of devices are equipped with sensors, actuators and communication units. These smart object interact with humans as wells as with each other. If they are embedded in more complex, so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS), they can, often via apps, be accessed remotely and initiate processes, e.g. in smart homes. CPS intelligently network real and virtual objects and thereby become self-controlled ecosystems that not only assist in providing and analyzing information but also automatically steer and control processes. Governments need to adapt to these changes and become smart governments. They will then be capable of using the new possibilities of smart objects and CPS in the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services for an efficient and effective execution of public tasks.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124934403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Linked Data Publishing Methodology","authors":"E. Klein, A. Gschwend, Alessia C. Neuroni","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.12","url":null,"abstract":"Linked open government data (LOGD) can be a catalyst in the development of value-added services and products. The vision of many Linked Open Data (LOD) projects is to make publishing and reuse of linked data as easy as possible for the end user thanks to a thriving marketplace with data publishers, developers, and consumers along the value chain. In the large scale LOD project \"Fusepool P3\", tourism-related applications and software components were developed that support data owners and open data enthusiasts in transforming legacy data to linked data. Based on experiences from this project, we present reflections and discuss pitfalls in drawing a linked data publishing methodology. An integrated view on all phases of the publishing process has not been described so far, for the technical phases linked data life-cycles have been identified only. The methodology developed enables stakeholders to transfer the lessons learned to other use cases and application contexts. This allows for better estimation of efforts and skills for future LOD projects.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124589091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jérôme Brugger, M. Fraefel, R. Riedl, Hansjakob Fehr, Daniel Schoeneck, Christoph Staehli Weissbrod
{"title":"Current Barriers to Open Government Data Use and Visualization by Political Intermediaries","authors":"Jérôme Brugger, M. Fraefel, R. Riedl, Hansjakob Fehr, Daniel Schoeneck, Christoph Staehli Weissbrod","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.18","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the effective use and practical potential of open government data visualizations by media, political parties, associations and NGOs. Furthermore, it analyses the main barriers to the use of open government data by these user groups. The paper summarizes the state of research and broadens the current perspective based on empirical data from Switzerland. Finally, the paper suggests actions in order to foster the use of OGD and improve the capabilities of these user groups.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130728386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Voigt, Gianluca Misuraca, C. Kucsera, Fiorenza Lipparini
{"title":"ICT-enabled Social Innovations in Social Services: Mapping the Evidence","authors":"C. Voigt, Gianluca Misuraca, C. Kucsera, Fiorenza Lipparini","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.15","url":null,"abstract":"Welfare systems are continuously under pressure to find innovative responses to demographic change, a global economy, increasing levels of migration and emerging technologies, to mention a few of the multiple challenges that confront social policy. Recent efforts to address these challenges at a European level include the Social Investment Package, which emphasizes the importance of social innovation and technologies for improving the efficiency of social policies and their effectiveness in meeting societal needs. By analysing well-documented ICT-enabled social innovation initiatives, this article contributes to capturing the state of technological and social innovations for social services in a more systematic way. Quality, quantity, and sustainability of social services are the starting point of our analysis, which points us to investigate further the role of partnerships and the role of the civil sector as a leading force for driving innovative social service delivery.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"4615 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126740864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaling Up Democracies with E-Collecting?","authors":"U. Serdült, Fernando Mendez, M. Harris, H. Seo","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.13","url":null,"abstract":"In most advanced democracies there is a host of ancillary participatory instruments that operate \"between elections\". The aim of such participatory instruments is to allow citizens to put new issues on the policy agenda. The range of so-called \"between election\" participatory instruments that are the focus of this paper can be grouped around three basic categories, the petition, the agenda initiative and the citizens' initiative. This paper deals mostly with the extent to which new technologies are used to enhance the functioning of the endorsement mechanism, so called e-collecting. Our core argument is that harnessing the full potential of the \"e\" dimension, especially the e-collecting aspect, will be conditional on two factors: (1) the specificity of the participatory instrument and (2) the institutionalization of the instrument, namely whether it is an established instrument or whether it is a recently introduced democratic innovation.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"464 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116186296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting Cognition in the Face of Political Data and Discourse: A Mental Models Perspective on Designing Information Visualization Systems","authors":"Günther Schreder, F. Windhager, M. Smuc, E. Mayr","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.23","url":null,"abstract":"Research into the use of information visualizations (InfoVis) covers various areas, i.e. how users perceive, interact with, or make sense of abstract data through the use of visual interfaces. With regard to more complex topics in the context of political communication, the question shifts to: How do users organize their internal representations gained from multiple perspectives on a global level? And which design recommendations could be derived for external representations - especially for InfoVis interfaces with multiple views? In this paper we discuss the theory of mental models and its consequences for the design of InfoVis interfaces. Especially for multidimensional data, it is a challenge to design accessible and conceptually consistent InfoVis interfaces to support the local and global coherence of the recipients' mental models. In this paper we exemplarily show how different design features can accomplish this in the field of political communication and its complex data.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115685095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustaining the Open Government Data Movement Worldwide: Insights from Developing Countries","authors":"Jennifer Shkabatur, Alon Peled","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.10","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the adoption of an Open Government Data (OGD) transparency policy innovation in five developing countries: Brazil, Kenya, Moldova, Morocco, and the Philippines. We combine an innovative big data analysis of published OGD data with a qualitative study of key moments in the history of adopting the OGD innovation in the five countries of focus. We discover that in all five countries most OGD activity occurred on a handful of days, usually immediately before or after a standalone \"OGD event\" such as a visit by a key World Bank official, or a major policy announcement. In the final section of the paper, we pay close attention to Brazil, the only country where the OGD innovation appears to be sustainable thanks to strong domestic OGD demand and an existing, multi-layered, government-transparency legal framework that supports the OGD innovation.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129365102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civicracy: Establishing a Competent and Responsible Council of Representatives Based on Liquid Democracy","authors":"R. Hainisch, A. Paulin","doi":"10.1109/CEDEM.2016.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEDEM.2016.27","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes Civicracy, an experimental instantiation of a system for enabling collaborative decision-making through liquid democracy. Civicracy was established as a research initiative in 2012 at the Vienna University of Technology, where a prototype was instantiated and a model tested under laboratory conditions. A real-world experiment was planned, however failed to come to life due to a lack of support by potential target environments. Compared with other liquid democracy models like Zhupa, or LiquidFeedback, Civicracy constrains the liquidity of vote delegation through a dampening algorithm to increase stability of representation, and focusses on the liquid-democratic constitution of a council of representatives, rather than policy-making or general decision-making, respectively.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121074764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Examination of Online Electoral Campaigning in Tanzania","authors":"D. P. Shayo, Norbert Kersting","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.19","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of social media networks (SNS) should be celebrated as signalling era of online campaign after decades of old-style traditional campaign. The first wide use of SNS for mobilising voters was by President Obama during the 2008 United States Presidential election. This paper examined a correlation between Facebook campaign engagements of presidential candidates in the 2015 Tanzania election and the number of votes they garnered. We examined Facebook pages over a period of two months. Our empirical findings show that some presidential candidates participate significantly in Facebook campaigning, however, they differ in number of followers, posts, likes, shares, comments and votes. Some candidates were rarely exposed to Facebook. Some were active. Yet there was little evidence, Facebook activities were a game changer to the shares of votes. Nonetheless, we found out that candidates who had Facebook pages trounced those without Facebook pages in the shares of votes.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114518392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring the Promise of Open Data: Development of the Impact Monitoring Framework","authors":"Matthias Stuermer, Marcus M. Dapp","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.31","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring the impact of releasing data to the public can be challenging since the effects may not be directly linked to particular open data activities or substantial impact may occur only several years after the data is published. This paper proposes a framework to assess the impact of releasing open data by applying the Social Return on Investment (SROI) approach. SROI was developed for organizations intended to generate social and environmental benefits thus fitting the purpose of most open data initiatives. We link the four steps of SROI (input, output, outcome, impact) with the 14 high-value data categories of the G8 Open Data Charter to create a matrix of open data examples, activities, and impacts in each of the data categories. This Impact Monitoring Framework helps data providers to navigate the impact space of open data, laying out the conceptual basis for further research.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115885676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}