{"title":"In Solidarity with Ukraine through Conversational AI via Facebook Ads: A Case Study of Online Discussion in 15 Countries","authors":"Jawad Haqbeen, S. Sahab, Takayuki Ito","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598541","url":null,"abstract":"The world is facing increasing volatility due to ongoing geopolitical instabilities, which pose threats to international peace and democracy. In this unstable world, togetherness is considered to be the most important form of civic involvement. Therefore, online discussion forums are posed to be the next-generation platforms for democratic human communication. However, research argues that a publicly virtual social conversation alone cannot guarantee meaningful discussions and consultations because it fails to provide supportive means to facilitate problem-solving conversations. Incentive and facilitation mechanisms required to stimulate efficient communication and collaboration among online users within online forums. This paper focuses on the problem of managing crowdsourced deliberation in online communities, with the aim of human solidarity with Ukraine. Specifically, we targeted online communities in capital cities of 15 countries using Facebook Ads and directed them to an online discussion site, hosted by D-Agree, an online discussion forum. We first provide an overview of the deliberative initiative that is being used to facilitate deliberation in solidarity with Ukraine through conversational AI via Facebook Ads. We present a process for collecting the wisdom of the crowd on “how to collect and spend the collected aids in Ukraine '' for Ukraine solidarity good, by providing the public with an AI-facilitated online environment to post their opinions. The collected insights can be used as a planning tool for authorities.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123533772","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":"Strengthening e-Participation through Design Thinking. Relevance for Better Digital Public Services ","authors":"I. Mariani, M. Mortati, F. Rizzo","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598494","url":null,"abstract":"In response to a lack of public participation, public administrations have been looking to e-participation as one strategy to overcome current barriers, such as lack of legitimacy and capacity, issues of representativeness, inclusiveness, equity and power balance, difficulties in effective implementation, and appropriate inclusion of citizens in decision-making processes. To tackle these challenges, literature has recognised the importance of including design thinking methodologies to reinforce public engagement and translate citizens’ suggestions for digital public service implementation. Acknowledging that research in this area is still limited, this paper proposes a rationale for the relevance of design thinking in implementing effective e-participation. Reviewing the relevant literature, the study proposes four different areas in which design thinking can support more effective citizen engagement in e-participation: (i) Meaning creation and sense-making, (ii) Publics formation, (iii) Co-production, and (iv) Experimentation and prototyping.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124165973","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":"Ignorance in public sector digital transformation: Empirical evidence and conjecture","authors":"Jonathan Crusoe, J. Magnusson, Jacob Torell","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598507","url":null,"abstract":"With digital government becoming increasingly relevant as a new mode of safeguarding relevance and operations of the public sector, previous research has highlighted the need for additional studies on the prerequisites of successful digital transformation. The current literature is laden with examples of said prerequisites, but so far there have been only limited empirical studies on the extent to which the prerequisites are known within public sector organizations. We study the ignorance of necessary prerequisites for digital transformation within public sector organizations through a quantitative survey conducted with 91 local authorities in Sweden in 2022. The study finds distinguishable nescient areas and patterns in the degrees of ignorance, which are then used for initial theorization and to discuss future avenues for research.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121670695","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 promises and perils of open source software release and usage by government – evidence from GitHub and literature","authors":"Gregor Eibl, Lörinc Thurnay","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598489","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Open Source Software (OSS) is extensively utilized in industry and government because it allows for open access to the source code and allows for external involvement in the software development process. There are several factors driving this movement in a government setting, making it difficult to assess the adoption's success. Through a study of billions of rows of GitHub activity data, this research analyzes the production of OSS by administrations in German-speaking countries in detail and analyses the motivating factors and challenges to OSS adoption through a literature review. Similar studies have been conducted in other nations, with somewhat different approaches, foci, and different ways to identify public GitHub users as well as insiders and outsiders of OSS projects. 16 consequences of OSS usage and development are listed in the paper. On GitHub, we found 1021 OSS projects run by public agencies in largly German-speaking nations. We then compiled a list of the most popular projects based on commits and the most active public agencies in terms of projects. The research also finds automatic contributions by bots, which have not been taken into account in the literature so far, and demonstrates highly substantial positive correlations between commits, forks, and stars as proxy for the popularity of these projects. This research introduces a new method for identifying government organizations in OSS platforms and illuminates the possible positive and negative effects of the public sector's release and adoption of open source software.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133899510","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":"Modes of Engagement: Problematizing Managerial Assumptions of Participation in Public Sector Digital Transformation: Problematizing managerial assumptions of participation in public sector digital transformation","authors":"Mäjt Wik, Daniel Curto-Millet, Tomas Lindroth","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598561","url":null,"abstract":"Sweden is transitioning from a provider-centric model of healthcare to a person-centric one through a large digital transformation initiative. Leading this transformation are local councils charged with co-creating with patients, citizens, and communities new digital systems. Previous literature has identified the difficulty of both large-scale change and implementing meaningful participatory processes. In this paper, we use Arnstein's model of citizen participation to analyze the degree of delegated decision-making found in managerial discourses and assumptions on this digital transformation. By comparing them with official documents, we find multiple tensions that preemptively undermine the potential active role that patients can play. Building on Arnstein's ladder of participation, we develop a framework that introduces four different modes of engagement for patient involvement in digital transformation initiatives. We suggest that beyond the design of participatory processes, digital transformations that rely on participation should focus on fostering social practices that disrupt established epistemologies.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132904820","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":"Designing public participation in the digital age: Lessons learned from using the policy cycle in an Austrian case study","authors":"Noella Edelmann, Valerie Albrecht","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598502","url":null,"abstract":"Social media, digital technologies, new online tools, and digital transformation processes in public sector organisations have led to the introduction of innovations and thus significant changes to public participation projects and processes. In this case study we study the impact of digital innovation on public participation processes by using the policy cycle phases. Multiple methods were used to collect expertise on how to develop participatory processes and the CoVID-19 lockdown in Austria represented an opportunity to test how to flexibly use digital tools in participation processes. The outcome provides an overview of lessons learned for designing participation processes flexibly drawing on different participation formats and digital tools.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133056339","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}
subst Darusalam, M. Janssen, Jamaliah Said, Normah Omar, M. Indra Saputra
{"title":"Smart contracts for creating transparent transactions to reduce corruption","authors":"subst Darusalam, M. Janssen, Jamaliah Said, Normah Omar, M. Indra Saputra","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598509","url":null,"abstract":"Corruption is widely spread and not easy to avoid. Blockchain-based smart contract technology enables the opportunity to develop transactions in such a way that corruption should not be possible. In this paper, we develop and evaluate an arrangement based on blockchain-based smart contracts to avoid and reduce corruption. Smart contracts are used for buying and selling goods, in which the public must agree that the goods arrived and are used to contribute to the creation of societal value. Only then will the supplier be paid. Al transaction data is stored in a blockchain and opened to the public to create transparency. In this way, the price of the good and the sellers can be inspected to avoid price manipulation and nepotism. The smart contract avoids the likelihood that corruption will happen, and it can be spotted if it happens.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134434837","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}
M. Siapera, Andreas Schmitz, M. Wimmer, A. Prentza
{"title":"AgInTeF: Agile Interoperability Testing Framework for Orchestrating Overarching Procedures in Verifying Digital Public Services","authors":"M. Siapera, Andreas Schmitz, M. Wimmer, A. Prentza","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598527","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of interoperability as a key driver for pan-European procurement procedures requires well organized and coordinated testing procedures. Different interoperability principles must be verified within complex project situations, while adapting to vastly differing business requirements. Literature and common best practices already describe a large set of different testing methods covering conformance, compliance, and interoperability testing. However, these methods are not orchestrated in an overarching testing procedure, which is clearly mapped to the required interoperability characteristics. To fill up this gap, a framework for agile interoperability testing procedures (Agile Interoperability Testing Framework, AgInTeF) is proposed following the principles of Design Science Research. The framework offers three levels of testing components, orchestrated across three process layers that help to divide the overall complexity in an incremental fashion. The testing itself follows up to four testing steps that cover five identified key interoperability characteristics. Finally, AgInTeF is exemplified by applying it to the European project INTERPROC to verify its real-world feasibility.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134215510","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}
Sandro Luís Brandão Campos, Josiel Maimone de Figueiredo
{"title":"Public services recommendation system: an alternative to customize the digital government transformation","authors":"Sandro Luís Brandão Campos, Josiel Maimone de Figueiredo","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598511","url":null,"abstract":"The market success in the application of recommendation systems technologies consolidates them as a mechanism of strong relationship with the consumer. However, it is still little explored in digital government scenarios, mainly in strengthening the relationship between public administration and the citizen. This study focuses on the application of recommendation systems in digital government services, in the context of Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, with the implementation of machine learning algorithms, based on citizens' access to public services, personalizing their journey and recommending other services and information due to the similarity between the data. In an exploratory way, bibliographic surveys were carried out with content analysis. The results include a platform with a process and architecture for implementing the new model. It is also presented an important discussion about diversity and novelty and the consequent improvement in the citizen's experience, preventing the monotony and predictability of digital government systems.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116815923","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}
George Valença, Hugo Medeiros, Katarina Santiago, Bruno Guedes, Matheus Fidelis, K. Brito
{"title":"On Using Design Thinking to Define Public Challenges and Address SDGs","authors":"George Valença, Hugo Medeiros, Katarina Santiago, Bruno Guedes, Matheus Fidelis, K. Brito","doi":"10.1145/3598469.3598532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3598469.3598532","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding, defining, and prioritizing the most important and target challenges to be addressed by the government institutions are historically arduous tasks. Besides, aligning the local perceptions of priority with broader objectives (e.g. Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs) adds a new layer of difficulty to the definition of public innovation policies. In this context, this paper details the initiative of a Brazilian public institution (the Foundation for the Support of Science and Technology of the State of Pernambuco - FACEPE) to define local innovation challenges that are centered on users and aligned with strategic goals, in special the SDGs. To perform this project, we proposed a design process that goes from Grand Societal Challenges to local innovation challenges, which are more relevant to local needs. We applied Design Thinking techniques to map problems and state challenges. The defined process was applied in two scenarios: (i) SDG 1, poverty, with a focus on access to health; and (ii) a group of SDGs (12-15) focused on sustainability. As main results, we highlight the achievement of FACEPE’s aim of reaching challenge statements and translating GSCs to the local reality, with reduced complexity and contestation.","PeriodicalId":401026,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116096332","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}