morten meyerhoff nielsen: status and requirements to optimise future benefits
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EUROPEAN E-PARTICIPATION: STATUS AND REQUIREMENTS TO OPTIMISE FUTURE BENEFITS
PEP-NET SUMMIT, Hamburg (DE), 23 September 2010Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen
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EU agenda Status of eParticipation in Europe
Challenge and the opportunity
How to optimise eParticipation
eParticipation the next 5 years
EU AGENDA APPROACH (1)
Governance White Paper (2001): Openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness, coherence
EU (from 2006): Focus on empowerment of citizens, better communication, listening
Lisbon Treaty (2009): Democratic equality, participative democracy, representative democracy
EU AGENDA (2)
Europe 2020 (2010-2020): – Support active participation in the digital society
(media, digital literacy, security and trust)– Promote social inclusion and combating poverty
Digital Agenda (2010-2015): – Enhance digital literacy, skills and inclusion
(digital era is about empowerment and emancipation)– ICT-enabled benefits for EU society
(use of ICT and PSI to address challenges)– eGovernment services enabling cost-effective and better
service for all, participatory, open and transparent government
STATUS OF ePARTICIPATION (1)
Countries with national or sub-national eParticipation policies and different levels of initiatives (2009)
a) eParticipation policies – number of years
b) eParticipation policies (%)1
c) Local or regional eParticipation initiatives (%)
d) National eParticipation initiatives (%)
e) Cross-border eParticipation initiatives (%)
f) eParticipation initiatives linked to EU institutions (%)
1 Note, that Denmark, Spain and Sweden have reported that they will shortly have national eParticipation policies, which will increase the percentage of EU15 countries to 100%.
STATUS OF ePARTICIPATION (2)
Type and level of eParticipation initiatives in Europe (2008)
STATUS OF ePARTICIPATION (3)
European eParticipation funding (2008)
CHALLENGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY (1)
Channels used for eParticipation (2007/2009)
CHALLENGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY (2)
Channels used for eParticipation (2009/2010)
23% of Norway’s 431 municipalities use social mediac. 1/3 have guidelines for employee use of social media
•17% of municipalities have an official Facebook group / profile while 1% use LinkedIn.•15% use Twitter and 13% have a kind of blog •Other social media used include YouTube (8%), Flickr (5%) and Slideshare (2%)
MEPs use digital tools, recognise the online presence of citizens, but the majority do not take advantage of Web 2.0 to actively engage voters
•75% have a website, but 62% have never heard of Twitter or have no plans to Tweet •24% blog extensively, but 26% of bloggers comment on other blogs once a week or more•Traditional channels seen as most important incl:
•Advertising: TV (57%), print (45%), online advertising (33%)•Outreach: Writing a column (81%), blogging/micro-blogging (51%)•Informing thinking: Personal contact with stakeholdergroups (48%), national media coverage (42%), blogs (32% / 17%)
HOW TO OPTIMISE ePARTICIPATION (1)
Increased democratic accountability (sine qua non)
At least 6 main elements which could improve eParticipation practice and impact
HOW TO OPTIMISE ePARTICIPATION (2)
Governments/institutions should listen and provide
frameworks for citizen participation from the bottom
(but not control it)ENABLE
Formalise and mainstream eParticipation as part of a coordinated ‘open engagement policy’
NECESSARY
Establish and support independent, neutral, trusted 3rd partiesGUARDIAN
Citizen centricityEMPOWER
Civil-servant centricityEMPOWER
Unleash Public Sector Information for easy re-use machine-readable format
KEY
ePARTICIPATION THE NEXT 5 YEARS
Basic issues remain likely to remain the same but… not just about politics and policy making, but governance
structures and arrangements, service design and delivery
broadening, widening, merging theme(eInclusion, personalisation, design-for-all, community development, social entrepreneurship, etc)
business models turning inside-out(sharing, cooperation, collective action, blurring of boundaries, roles and accountability)
will we move from eParticipation to eEngagement? (are definitions helpful?)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen Jeremy MillardNational IT- and Telecom Agency Danish Technological [email protected] [email protected] +45 2391 2291 +45 7220 1417
European eParticipation Study consortium
http://www.european-eparticipation.eu or http://islab.uom.gr/eP/