E-participation and transparent policy decision making

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ID6149196
AuthorsSoon Ae Chun (City University of New York, corresponding author), June-Suh Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Year2012
Volume17
Issue2
Pages129-145
Publication date2012-07-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInformation Polity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1875-8754 • E-ISSN: 1570-1255
PublisherIOS Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.3233/ip-2012-0273
OpenAlexW1739474170
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited7

In this study, we investigate the implementation, benefits and results of an online participation tool, called Cyber Policy Forum, and other for e-participation tools, by the Seoul Metropolitan City Government (SMG) in Korea, used for citizen participation in the policy making process. The Forum has not only shifted the paradigm of city governance by easing SMG's burden of policy planning, but also has raised public awareness and understanding of municipal issues. However, we do not think the Policy forum tool has enough features for "shared governance" to achieve a true citizen-government partnership in policy decision making. We recommend a provenance data based policy transparency model} that captures and makes the policy decision making data transparent to citizens to be used in the deliberation process. The provenance data-based policy transparency model implies transparency in policy data, process, role and context information generated in the policy decision making lifecycle by the government. In addition, we advocate augmenting citizen participation tools with personal decision support system functionalities, such as content management and social analytic tools. Such tools can help enhancing the efficient management of the deliberation data to overcome information overload. They will also make it easy for citizens to understand the interactions among participants, and to grasp the conditions and contexts related to policy decision making

Business · Computer security · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Deliberation · e-participation · General partnership · Government (linguistics · Knowledge management · Open government · Political science · Politics · Public participation · Public policy · Public relations · Transparency (behavior · Caching and Content Delivery · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies · Public Administration

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