Simon Delakorda from the Institute for Electronic Participation in Slovenia presented on establishing and facilitating deliberative internet public debates. Some of the key issues discussed included how to moderate debates without censorship, ensuring legitimacy and inclusiveness, addressing privacy concerns for participants, and getting policymakers to include the results of internet debates in adopted legislation. Delakorda argued that internet debates can increase visibility, legitimacy, and participation for NGOs, but present challenges around resources, expertise, and ensuring impact. Active moderation, unbiased reporting, and follow up are important to maximize the democratic potential of online debates.
Internet voting: Will communities decide?marcoadria
This presentation considers potential methods for communities to help shape and influence the decision as to whether Internet voting will be adopted. In particular, a case study will be presented of the use of the public-involvement method of a Citizen Jury to deliberate on the question of whether Internet voting should be adopted. It is argued that because considerations other than public opinion, such as the interests of stakeholders and the influence of mass and online media in framing of issues, will continue to affect the opinions of elected representatives, community-informatics theorists and practitioners should develop innovative methods of ensuring that the voice of citizens can be meaningfully incorporated into the decision as to whether Internet voting will be adopted.
Internet voting: Will communities decide?marcoadria
This presentation considers potential methods for communities to help shape and influence the decision as to whether Internet voting will be adopted. In particular, a case study will be presented of the use of the public-involvement method of a Citizen Jury to deliberate on the question of whether Internet voting should be adopted. It is argued that because considerations other than public opinion, such as the interests of stakeholders and the influence of mass and online media in framing of issues, will continue to affect the opinions of elected representatives, community-informatics theorists and practitioners should develop innovative methods of ensuring that the voice of citizens can be meaningfully incorporated into the decision as to whether Internet voting will be adopted.
Innovative approaches to analyses of online social networksJakob Jensen
This is the introduction to our panel from Association of Internet Researchers' conference IR13 in Salford, Oct 18th-21th 2012. It contains my introduction to the panel + my own presentation on a framework for online social network analysis. Enjoy!
Information visualization of Twitter data for co-organizing conferencesJari Jussila
Information visualization of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences, introducing CMAD2013 case, presentation in Mindtrek conference, 3 October 2013, Tampere, Finland. Co-authors: Jukka Huhtamäki, Hannu Kärkkäinen and Kaisa Still. Joint research publication of two Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation – projects: SOILA (Innovative value creation and business models of social media in B2B networks) and REINO (Relational Capital for Innovative Growth Companies).
Introduction to the Programmable City ProjectProgCity
Rob Kitchin, PI Programmable City Project, NIRSA, NUIM
An overview of The Programmable City project, the ideas underpinning the research and the prospective case studies.
Groupon, Kickstarter, Pledgebank: when does conditional commitment work?mysociety
This was presented by Roger Hallam from Kings College
London at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Visual network analysis of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences: Case C...Jari Jussila
Visual network analysis of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences: Case CMAD2013 presented at HICSS2014 conference. This research is sponsored by Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Projects “Soila”; Innovative Value Creation and Business Models of Social Media in B2B Networks, and “Reino”; Relational Capital for Innovative Growth Companies).
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
Martin Dodge (Department of Geography, University of Manchester)
Code and Conveniences
Abstract: In this talk I want to think about where code is at work in world and for what purposes. Playing on the popularist notion that technologies bring greater convenience to modern life, this talk looks at specifically at ‘conveniences’, an apposite space of modernity. I will analyse how public toilet spaces are being reshaped, with sensor technologies and software processes deployed that seek to render toileting practices into a sequence of touch-free activities, and attempt to diminish direct handling of the materiality of the bathroom surfaces and fixtures. Driven by a range of modernist discourses around hygiene, ease-of-use, and efficiency, it is apparent that many public toilets are now sites of code which reacts to humans without direct touch. However, the logics of software enabled automation able to overcome the fear of contamination and subconscious disgust at direct touching of surfaces shared with strange bodies is often nullified because the actual deployment of touch-free sensors is typically incomplete. The talk will conclude by considering why the spaces of touch are likely only ever to be partially reconfigurable by software technologies, and what this might mean for the algorithmic automation of other everyday environment and tactile activities.
Bio: Martin Dodge is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of
Manchester, and his research focuses primarily on the politics of mapping
technologies, new modes of geographic visualisation, and cultural
understandings of urban infrastructures. He curated from 1997 to 2007 the
well-known web-based Atlas of Cyberspaces and has co-authored three
books analysing technologies: Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000), Atlas
of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Code/Space (MIT Press, 2011). He
has co-edited four books on cartographic theory and mapping practice:
Geographic Visualization (Wiley, 2008), Rethinking Maps (Routledge, 2009),
Classics in Cartography (Wiley, 2010) and The Map Reader (Wiley, 2011).
http://cyberbadger.blogspot.co.uk/
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//martin/martin.html
As the use of technology in the workplace continues to evolve and expand, social workers must examine the use of this technology within the realm of professional practice and ethical decision-making. In “Technology, Ethics, and Social Work”, we will explore some of the ethical challenges and considerations, while highlighting best practice guidelines, grounded in the National Association of Social Work (NASW)/Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Code of Ethics.
Learning Objectives:
1. NASW Code of Ethics Review.
2. Benefits and Challenges of Technology Use in Social Work Practice.
3. NASW/ASWB Standards for Technology.
4. Methods to Reduce Ethical Risk in Social Work Practice.
Delakorda, Simon. 2012. Political informatics: how should civil society address technocratic e-governance and fake e-democracy?: [presentation at Ohrid e-Democracy Conference. ICT – a driver for improving democracy, 23rd-25th September 2012]. Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 2012.
Innovative approaches to analyses of online social networksJakob Jensen
This is the introduction to our panel from Association of Internet Researchers' conference IR13 in Salford, Oct 18th-21th 2012. It contains my introduction to the panel + my own presentation on a framework for online social network analysis. Enjoy!
Information visualization of Twitter data for co-organizing conferencesJari Jussila
Information visualization of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences, introducing CMAD2013 case, presentation in Mindtrek conference, 3 October 2013, Tampere, Finland. Co-authors: Jukka Huhtamäki, Hannu Kärkkäinen and Kaisa Still. Joint research publication of two Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation – projects: SOILA (Innovative value creation and business models of social media in B2B networks) and REINO (Relational Capital for Innovative Growth Companies).
Introduction to the Programmable City ProjectProgCity
Rob Kitchin, PI Programmable City Project, NIRSA, NUIM
An overview of The Programmable City project, the ideas underpinning the research and the prospective case studies.
Groupon, Kickstarter, Pledgebank: when does conditional commitment work?mysociety
This was presented by Roger Hallam from Kings College
London at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
Visual network analysis of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences: Case C...Jari Jussila
Visual network analysis of Twitter data for co-organizing conferences: Case CMAD2013 presented at HICSS2014 conference. This research is sponsored by Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Projects “Soila”; Innovative Value Creation and Business Models of Social Media in B2B Networks, and “Reino”; Relational Capital for Innovative Growth Companies).
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
Martin Dodge (Department of Geography, University of Manchester)
Code and Conveniences
Abstract: In this talk I want to think about where code is at work in world and for what purposes. Playing on the popularist notion that technologies bring greater convenience to modern life, this talk looks at specifically at ‘conveniences’, an apposite space of modernity. I will analyse how public toilet spaces are being reshaped, with sensor technologies and software processes deployed that seek to render toileting practices into a sequence of touch-free activities, and attempt to diminish direct handling of the materiality of the bathroom surfaces and fixtures. Driven by a range of modernist discourses around hygiene, ease-of-use, and efficiency, it is apparent that many public toilets are now sites of code which reacts to humans without direct touch. However, the logics of software enabled automation able to overcome the fear of contamination and subconscious disgust at direct touching of surfaces shared with strange bodies is often nullified because the actual deployment of touch-free sensors is typically incomplete. The talk will conclude by considering why the spaces of touch are likely only ever to be partially reconfigurable by software technologies, and what this might mean for the algorithmic automation of other everyday environment and tactile activities.
Bio: Martin Dodge is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of
Manchester, and his research focuses primarily on the politics of mapping
technologies, new modes of geographic visualisation, and cultural
understandings of urban infrastructures. He curated from 1997 to 2007 the
well-known web-based Atlas of Cyberspaces and has co-authored three
books analysing technologies: Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000), Atlas
of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Code/Space (MIT Press, 2011). He
has co-edited four books on cartographic theory and mapping practice:
Geographic Visualization (Wiley, 2008), Rethinking Maps (Routledge, 2009),
Classics in Cartography (Wiley, 2010) and The Map Reader (Wiley, 2011).
http://cyberbadger.blogspot.co.uk/
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//martin/martin.html
As the use of technology in the workplace continues to evolve and expand, social workers must examine the use of this technology within the realm of professional practice and ethical decision-making. In “Technology, Ethics, and Social Work”, we will explore some of the ethical challenges and considerations, while highlighting best practice guidelines, grounded in the National Association of Social Work (NASW)/Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Code of Ethics.
Learning Objectives:
1. NASW Code of Ethics Review.
2. Benefits and Challenges of Technology Use in Social Work Practice.
3. NASW/ASWB Standards for Technology.
4. Methods to Reduce Ethical Risk in Social Work Practice.
Delakorda, Simon. 2012. Political informatics: how should civil society address technocratic e-governance and fake e-democracy?: [presentation at Ohrid e-Democracy Conference. ICT – a driver for improving democracy, 23rd-25th September 2012]. Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 2012.
Delakorda, Simon. 2012. Political informatics: which e-participation for NGOs?: [presentation at New Technologies and Participation: A Cure or a Pretext? panel at Partners or Foes? Exchange of Good Practices in Monitoring of Government Policies and Processes in Enlargement Countries Conference, Skopje, 4th of July 2012]. Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 2012.
Presentation from the 11th Bled Forum on Europe Foresight Conference "The Future of Information Society and Challenges for Good Governance" held in Bled, Slovenia 10th - 12th March 2010.
CONTENT
1. ICTs and political democracy
2. ICTs and active citizenship
3. Technological determinism vs. social constructivism
4. Spatial and communicative diversity (4 cases)
5. The role of NGOs in e-participation
6. Recommendations for e-participation: toward realistic optimism
TRILcon'17 confernece workshop presentation on UnBias stakeholder engagementAnsgar Koene
Presentation outlining the stakeholder engagement activities of the UnBias project, including case study driven debate with participants at the Winchester TRILcon conference on May 3rd 2017
Intro into origins and concept of multistakeholder approach to Internet governance; @Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet Governance
2014-5-26, Kuwait
The Finnish e-participation environment - IIEP IJW2011Teemu Ropponen
The Finnish e-participation environment - presentation at Immigrant Intergration by e-participation International Joint Workshop 2011, Helsinki, Nov 2-3
e-SIDES Community Position Paper User Manuale-SIDES.eu
e-SIDES is collecting community opinions related to the debate on how big data solutions can be developed and used in a responsible way, paying particular attention to the potential of privacy-preserving technologies.
By bringing together the viewpoints of stakeholders from different domains and with different expertise, we aim to complement our research and stimulate further dialogue around responsible big data innovation.
This presentation introduces the Community Position Paper, and provides detailed instruction about the collaborative editing process.
ICTs and political democracy, Models of democracy and e-democracy, E-participation pyramid, Different ways of doing e-participation, E-participation divide in Europe, Massive usage by citizens, E-democracy developments in the
Republic of Slovenia, An early lessons from e-participation, Results from field research, Technological determinism vs. social constructivism, Recommendations local
municipalities
1. E-participation development at the EU level
1.2 Europe as a e-participation frontruner
1.3 Massive engagement
1.4 My voice counts in the EU?
1.5 European elections turnout
2. Puzzled by e-participation?
2.1 Lessons from e-participation
3. Crowdsourcing as e-participation approach?
4. European Citizens Crowdsourcing project
Presentation from 5th Regional Internet Governance Forum ”Internet as a key for Innovation and Prosperity”, 7 December 2017, Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan
Vsebina
- Normativne podlage vključevanja v odločanje v občini
- Prenova parka v mestu Hasselt
- Možnosti za uresničitev podobnega projekta v Sloveniji?
- Zaključek
Vsebina predavanja:
- E-demokracija pri oblikovanju predpisov in politik
- Digitalizacija podpore kandidatu na predsedniških volitvah
- E-volitve v Sloveniji?
CONTENT
Research problem / statement
Research questions
Research model
On-line survey implementation
Findings: types of digital NGOs
Findings: digital NGOs' public space
Implications for theory
Further research
CONTENT
1. Liberal understanding of e-democracy
2. E-participation divide in the EU
3. E-participation index in Slovenia
4. National and local governments cases
5. Non-governmental organisations cases
6. Transparency and open data initiatives
7. E-participation framework and context
SKLOP 1: Uporaba IKT in delovanje nevladnih organizacij na
področju informacijske družbe
SKLOP 2: Potencial NVO za oblikovanje novih storitev ali prenos javnih funkcij na področju informacijske družbe
SKLOP 3: Problematike na področju informacijske družbe in
potrebe NVO, katere bi morala nagovarjati vsebinske mreža
Mreža NVO-VID: tehnični podatki, vsebinska izhodišča in vizija. Kazalniki rezultatov mreže: procesi vplivanja na javne politike, mentoriranje nevladnih organizacij na vsebinskem področju, akcije z namenom krepitve povezovanja NVO, analize z namenom ugotavljanja stanja, potreb in potenciala NVO, skupne akcije/iniciative NVO v sodelovanju z drugimi sektorji.
Slides from presentation “NGOs as stakeholders of ICT strategies: the case of Slovenia” at the Regional Internet Governance Forum in Baku. My intention was to highlight an increasingly important role of non-governmental organisations in information society development.
Delakorda, Simon. 2012. Basic income: Preaching and practising on-line active citizenship in Slovenia: [presentation at International conference "Universal basic income: for new social contract in Europe", 11th-12th October 2012]. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012.
1. Seminar Watchdogs - Working Out Credibility
Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups & Stefan Batory Foundation
Warsaw 26th - 27th of March 2009
Deliberation in the Internet – how to secure the
privacy and moderate without censorship
Simon Delakorda
Institute for Electronic Participation (INePA)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
2.
3.
4. Starting questions
When should NGOs establish and facilitate deliberative
internet public debates?
What are the necessary communication principles and
rules (on-line moderation vs. censorship)?
How to secure legitimacy, accountability and inclusiveness
of debates?
Which are privacy issues for citizens and NGOs
participating in internet based debates?
How to ensure that policy-makers will include results from
internet debate into adopted legislation?
5. Why bother with Internet public debates?
When is necessary to establish an open space for
exchanging and sharing opinions regarding public
issues among citizens (e-debates).
When formulating experts and interest groups
contributions to a policy or legislative proposal (e-
consultations).
Benefits for NGOs: visibility, legitimacy, transparency,
openness, participation, interactivity and content.
Challenges for NGOs: technical expertise, digital
exclusion, additional (financial) resources, passive
citizens, government & media ignorance, facilitation and
moderation.
6. Internet debate moderation vs. censorship
Active and passive moderation
Relevant issue selection
Starting questions
Following discursive ethics standards
Focusing debate and archiving inappropriate messages
(not deleting them)
Time frame
Additional information and web links
Debate report
7. Legitimacy, accountability and inclusiveness of
internet debates
No restrictions regarding participation
Participation of both internet users and non-internet users
Registration with name in surname (?)
Involvement into policy-making process or public opinion
formation (motivation for participation)
Involvement of decision-makers (feedback)
Non-biased moderators reports
Consensus among participants on final report
Follow up (policy evaluation)
Are numbers important? (participatory legitimacy vs.
representative legitimacy)
8. Privacy issues for citizens and NGOs
Registering with “real” name and surname
Identity manipulation
E-mail database management
Personal data protection legislation
Who is responsible for hate speech and flaming?
How relevant and accountable are contributions from
anonymous users?
9. Including results of Internet debate into adopted
legislation
Secure obligation from decision-makers that the official
feedback will be provided (at the start up)
Non-biased and professionally prepared Internet debate
report
Expert follow up (policy evaluation and informing
participants)
Media promotion
General impression (technical implementation, quality
of debate, level of moderation, connection to live
events, overall professionalism, etc).
10. Conclusions
Internet ultimately is a democratic tool and we have to
perceive it as such in order to use it for identifying,
deliberating and implementing public interest.
The present socio-political conditions are not favouring
full implementation of deliberative potentials of the
Internet.
Examples and cases of good practices overcoming
those limitations are there for crucial!
11. Thank you very much for your attention!
simon.delakorda@inepa.si
Institute for Electronic Participation (INePA)
Povšetova ulica 37
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel.:+386 41 365 529
www.inepa.eu