Abstract
What
remains unclear after a decade of e-Participation research and practice is the
extent to which the social web and informal channels have empowered citizens in
government-citizen interactions where government determines what, where and how
to discuss. Lately, attention has shifted to how these informal channels could
be better harnessed as part of a holistic e-Participation solution. However,
this implicit notion of duality of e-Participation is yet to be explored or
conceptualized. This paper provides a first step towards understanding the
duality of Government-led and Citizen-led e-Participation based on structuration
and dynamic capabilities theories. We employ structuration theory to understand
how dynamics of power between government and citizen in deciding what is
important for the society and the solutions to adopt could tilt towards the side
of citizens through citizen-led deliberations. Through the dynamic capabilities
theory, we determine additional capabilities required by governments to
meaningfully exploit and sustain citizen-led e-participation as a part or a
holistic e-participation framework. We show through a case study how our
resulting analytical tool could be employed in identifying salient technical,
organisational and political issues in an on-going Irish e-Participation
initiative planning to adopt citizen-led deliberation.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Title of host publication | 2nd Joint International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective and International Conference on Electronic Democracy, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013. |
| Place of Publication | Prague, Czech Republic |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2013 |
Authors (Note for portal: view the doc link for the full list of authors)
- Authors
- Lukasz Porwol and Adegboyega Ojo and John Breslin
