{"title":"Measuring Voter Lines","authors":"C. Schürmann, Jian Wang","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.16","url":null,"abstract":"We present an automated data collection technique called white boxes-or simply wb-technique, which is designed to analyze the voter behavior in polling stations including the measurement of arrival and waiting times and the determination of arrival frequency, to assist the management of polling places to make decisions regarding the distribution of resources and to identify areas for future improvement, and to provide hard data to guide the political decision making process with respect to the choice of voting technologies.","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":"129809962","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 Activism in Post-Euromaidan Ukrainian Politics and Civil Society","authors":"Alexander Ronzhyn","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.17","url":null,"abstract":"Social Media has become an important political tool in Ukraine. During the 2013-2014 protests many Facebook groups were established. With the success of the protests and the change of the government, they did not disappear but rather switched their focus to raising awareness of internal corruption and providing support to the Ukrainian citizens involved in the conflict in the east of Ukraine. The research aims at filling the gap of understanding of social media civil activism in Ukraine in the context of ongoing military conflict in the east of the country. Paper provides attempt at categorizing the Facebook activist communities according to the type of published content and illustrates the Facebook activism in Ukraine through several recent examples.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"6 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":"129464591","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 Influence of the Transparency Agenda on Open Government Data in Chile","authors":"Felipe Gonzalez-Zapata, Richard Heeks","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.33","url":null,"abstract":"Open government data (OGD) can promote transparency and accountability. While OGD intervenes in political spaces and interests related to transparency agendas, little attention has been paid to the influence of existing transparency initiatives on the way OGD initiatives are designed and implemented. This paper analyzes the influence of the transparency agenda on OGD in order to understand how past decisions in transparency shape current OGD implementation. Based on the case of Chile, the paper follows a historical institutionalism approach: recent transparency-related institutions are analyzed through the lens of path dependence. The paper concludes that existing cultures around the transparency agenda in Chile have both an ideological and operational influence on the development of OGD, which have limited its institutionalization and appropriateness within the public sector to date.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"93 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":"122549038","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":"Normalization versus Equalization Effects of the Internet for Political Parties: Singapore's General Election 2015 as a Case Study","authors":"Tarn How Tan, Ying Hui Tng, Andrew Yeo","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.40","url":null,"abstract":"According to the equalization theory, new media levels the electoral playing field for smaller political parties to compete equally. The normalization theory, however, suggests the opposite – the major party continues to dominate the online space, just as it does offline. The question we ask is this: Does the Internet help the opposition parties in Singapore overcome structural disadvantages offline, or does it replicate the dominance of the ruling party? We assessed five political parties according to how well they use their websites and Facebook during the 2015 general election (GE15). Our study found an overall normalization effect, where the main party emerged as the best user of new media in their campaign, and the opposition parties' use of new media reflected their strengths offline. As most papers have focused on democratic countries, this paper plugs a research gap by bringing to focus social media and elections studies in a semi-authoritarian country.","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":"129196969","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":"Using Open Research Data for Public Policy Making: Opportunities of Virtual Research Environments","authors":"Anneke Zuiderwijk, K. Jeffery, D. Bailo, Yi Yin","doi":"10.1109/CeDEM.2016.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CeDEM.2016.20","url":null,"abstract":"Governments and publicly-funded research organisations increasingly make research data available openly. Researchers can use this data in Virtual Research Environments (VREs) to conduct multidisciplinary data-driven research and to obtain new insights potentially for governmental policy-making. However, the requirements for such a VRE are not yet clear. The objective of this study is to elicit and define requirements for a multidisciplinary VRE that integrates Open Government Data (OGD) and open research data for public policy making. Based on a VRE case study, we elicit 13 VRE requirements related to data storage, data accessing, data curation and other aspects, and describe a use case of open data for governmental policy-making. Meeting the requirements results in a VRE that 1) overlays the existing e-Research Infrastructures to provide researchers with integrated open data from different domains, 2) offers OGD in combination with data from publicly-funded research, and 3) stimulates innovation and research collaboration.","PeriodicalId":399705,"journal":{"name":"2016 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM)","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114466637","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}