{"title":"A Generic Interface for the Public Bulletin Board Used in UniVote","authors":"Severin Hauser, R. Haenni","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.24","url":null,"abstract":"To provide verifiability, cryptographic voting protocols usually require a public bulletin board forpublishing the election data, so that the data can be read and verified by everyone. The basic requirements onsuch a board are similar for most protocols, for example that nothing can be changed or deleted from the board. Typically, when it comes to implement a voting protocol in a real system, many additional requirements ariseand they can differ from protocol to protocol. This paper shows based on the protocol of UniVote what theserequirements might be and what other problems may arise from an operational and organisational point ofview. Based on the understanding of these problems, we propose a generic interface for the main boardfunctionalities. This interface offers a flexible way of extending the properties of a public bulletin board tocomply with all sorts of additional requirements. We give multiple examples of properties that we identified asdesirable for the public bulletin board in UniVote.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"12 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":"114969402","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":"Innovating Good Regulatory Practice Using Mixed-Initiative Social Media Analytics and Visualization","authors":"V. Lemieux","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.38","url":null,"abstract":"Greater availability of data - so called big data - presents new opportunities to apply innovative analytic approachesand new technologies to better understand development strategies and outcomes in relation to Good Regulatory Practice. Thispaper discusses the opportunity to train and use more data-driven approaches facilitated by visualization, interactivity anddata science methods to innovate rule making and the way governments engage in dialogue with citizens on regulatory reforms. The paper focuses on two areas in particular - 1) regulatory impact assessment (RIA) and 2) information processing support innotice and comment on rulemaking - with particular reference to how the application of a novel big data analytics framework, Mixed-Initiative Social Media Analytics (MISMA), can be used to address these two rulemaking challenges.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"61 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":"127904440","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":"Styles of Online Participation in the Monza Participatory Budgeting","authors":"S. Stortone, F. Cindio","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.32","url":null,"abstract":"Participation is changing over time, thanks to the improvements in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Traditional online forums and structured discussions are being complemented, often replaced, by a more immediate involvement where people can leave spot opinions, often by simply clicking to agree or disagree. These \"weak\" forms of engagement allow many people to be part of the community also, escaping from the category of the lurkers, and to increase the civic involvement when used into participatory initiatives. This paper aims to show and discuss these changes in the case of the Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiative in the city of Monza (Italy), by using an analytic framework based on four styles of participation.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"1 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":"130826733","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":"Social Media in Local Administration: An Empirical Study of Twitter Use in Flood Management","authors":"Panom Gunawong, Nantapong Butakhieo","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.30","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding of how the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in Thailand has adopted Twitter to communicate with residents in its approach to flood management. Specifically, we examine 3,453 BMA tweet messages in terms of quantity, tweet content, reactions and engagement. Results indicate that BMA actively provides information of various types that bring about various reactions from its followers. BMA employs Twitter as a one-way communication channel to disseminate information, thus neglecting a method of engagement with its residents.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"11 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":"128123767","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":"A Review of Introducing Game Elements to e-Participation","authors":"Sarah-Kristin Thiel","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.14","url":null,"abstract":"In light of a disturbingly low political participation, governments around the world try novel approaches to re-encourage citizens to make use of their democratic rights. A currently popular strategy is the implementation of digital participation platforms. Since the emergence of these tools, a true success has yet to be confirmed. One attempt to increase the usage of digital participation tools and therefore eventually also the overall level of public participation, is the incorporation of game-related elements. This paper reviews recent academic projects concerning gamified participation tools and reports on preliminary results. Overall, it should not be assumed that gamification works similar in all domains, different user groups react different to game aspects and some elements might even be harmful towards the overall objective. Therefore, it is important to analyze one's context and target groups before turning to gamification. Moreover, game elements need to be chosen carefully and situated in the context.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"200 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":"134262408","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":"Tools for Transparency? Institutional Barriers to Effective Civic Technology in Latin America","authors":"Rebecca Rumbul","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.29","url":null,"abstract":"Digital NGOs design and popularise tools to open up, and enable citizens to interact with, decision-makers. The successful operation of such platforms depends on the expertise and efficiency of the NGO, and the willingness of institutions to disclose usable information. It is this institutional interaction with civic technology that this paper seeks to explore. This paper examines the empirical interview data gathered from government officials, public servants, campaigners and NGO's involved in the development and implementation of civic technologies in Chile, Argentina and Mexico. The findings identify the impact that civic technology has had upon government bureaucracy, and the barriers to openness created by institutionalised behaviours and norms. Institutionalised attitudes to information rights and conventions are shown to inform the approach that government bureaucracy takes in the provision of information / data, and institutionalised procedural behaviour is shown to be a factor in frustrating NGOs attempting to implement civic technology.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"61 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132545985","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}
Carmelofrancesco Origlia, Domenico Cersosimo, T. Bianchi, Alfredo Fortunato
{"title":"Assessing an Open Government Data Initiative. The Case of OpenCoesione","authors":"Carmelofrancesco Origlia, Domenico Cersosimo, T. Bianchi, Alfredo Fortunato","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.26","url":null,"abstract":"Open government comprises the set of actions focused on increasing transparency in the public sector and improving decision-making process. The end result is more effective institutions and more robust democracy. Given these premises, the paper discusses the key findings of an evaluation research on OpenCoesione, one of the first and most significant open government data initiative promoted by the Italian government that provides via a web portal data about the implementation of cohesion investment projects. As literature suggested, the initiative increased transparency towards public expenditure funded by cohesion policies, indicated by the users as the main value produced. The results in terms of participation and collaboration appear less clear: the portal is used as a working tool by experts and public managers and the initiative seem not to have improved the quality of public debate on cohesion policies, remaining as a relevant experience of a single administration.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"45 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":"121955630","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":"The Path from E-Government to Open Government in Vietnam: Dealing with the Openness Dilemma","authors":"Van Long Tran","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.11","url":null,"abstract":"For over decade, Vietnam has made many efforts to promote e-government and improve efficiency and effectiveness of its public administration. As a result, the administrative system becomes more transparent time after time. However, building an open government seems to be too far to reach in the sense that a non-democratic government has to strike the balance between economic and political openness. This paper aims to shed more light on a case of an authoritarian regime in the path from e-government to e-democracy, and open government. This is such a long, tough, and rocky journey linked with democratization in an authoritarian regime.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"1 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":"129684856","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":"Advancing ICT4Governance in Eastern Africa: The Case of Me & My Leader (MML) e-Participation System Design","authors":"J. Baguma, Charles Karemera, F. Githinji","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.25","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a Mobile SMS-Online-Radio e-participation system designed to accelerate citizens-leaders democratic engagement to improve public service delivery in the Eastern Africa region. It builds on the participatory action research (PAR) theoretical framework and aims to operationalize the PAR e-participation model previously proposed by Toro Development Network (ToroDev) at the end of 2014. The system design develops knowledge required for joint reflection and continuous decision making during the engagement processes between citizens (civil society) and government through a participatory action research approach. The paper emphasizes the ICT convergence approach that combines broadcast media, specifically Radio, mobile phone and online or internet technologies to receive and request grassroot public opinion on national strategies, policies and programmes.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"10 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":"128446255","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":"Structural Conditions for Citizen Deliberation: A Conceptual Scheme for the Assessment of \"New\" Parties","authors":"Marie Haberer, I. Pena-Lopez","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.28","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to elaborate a conceptual scheme for assessing deliberative spaces within political parties that propose the direct input of citizens in policy-making as a possible solution for the crisis that representative democracy is facing. Building on existing dimensions, we used a qualitative research design with data from observation, interviews and document analysis to investigate a neighbourhood group of \"Barcelona en Comú\". This recently formed political party experiments with the incorporation of horizontal decision-making practices facilitated through ICTs to establish modes and bodies for citizen deliberation. We discovered relevant themes that allowed us to develop a conceptual scheme when assessing deliberative structural conditions. This scheme can serve as a map and a monitoring device for evaluating the actual practice of parties that claim to engage in citizen deliberation. We conclude by indicating the performance of BComú and by asking if the successful implementation of deliberative spaces can lead to a new party model and new trends in political practice.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"8 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":"129577128","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}