Encouraging civic participation through local news aggregation

Kavanaugh, Andrea L.; Krishnan, S. K.; Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A.; Tedesco, John C.; Madondo, Kumbirai; Ahuja, Ankit

doi:10.3233/ip-140332

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“…Numerous researchers are currently interested in this phenomenon. Some of them evaluate and measure a range of Internet and social media communication with the goal to determine ways they encourage widespread access, dissemination, and deliberation on community issues (Kavanaugh et al, 2014). Others claim that the demands of participation in various international regimes makes policy coordination across government a key factor in determining effective and inclusive governance at national level (Zubcevic, 2016, p. 62-63).…”

Section: Including Citizens In Decision-making Processes As a Fundamementioning

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Citizens Inclusion in the Political Decision-Making Process as a Determinant of Sustainable Development Implementation

Kaszkur¹,

Kapsa²

2019

EJSD

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All efforts to involve the society in the affairs of local communities are an important aspect of the implementation of the principle of sustainable development. Citizen’s involvement in decision making processes not only positively correlates with their sense of action, but also affects the quality of decisions made by public authorities which gain the opportunity to learn more about the needs and expectations of citizens. The best conditions for the implementation the principle of sustainable development, basing on the dialogue with citizens, are on local level – in the cities. Moreover, using new information and communication technologies opens a number of possibilities to even more fully activation of local communities. As a consequence, the residents have greater impact on the quality of political decisions, that take into account their needs and expectations, it is also a chance to improve the quality of their life. The main research goal of the article is to answer the question – what characterizes sustainable development of the city and how the use of information and communication technologies by public authorities may affect a more complete implementation of the principle of sustainable development. The research method is an analysis of the documents and source materials.Keywords: civic engagement, e-participation, information and communication technologies, local authorities, sustainable development of the cities

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Section: Including Citizens In Decision-making Processes As a Fundamementioning

confidence: 99%

Citizens Inclusion in the Political Decision-Making Process as a Determinant of Sustainable Development Implementation

Kaszkur¹,

Kapsa²

2019

EJSD

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“…This brief analysis outlines that there is still a rather big divide between volunteer citizens, analysis systems, and emergency stakeholders. It highlights how a deeper and more e↵ective synergy between these worlds might be the key for developing more resilient and human-centered systems (Gill, 2013;A. Kavanaugh et al, 2013).…”

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On the need of opening up crowdsourced emergency management systems

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Nowadays,socialmediaanalysissystemsarefeedingonusercontributed data, either for beneficial purposes, such as emergency management, or for user profiling and mass surveillance. Here, we carry out a discussion about the power and pitfalls of public accessibility to social media-based systems, with specific regards to the emergency management application EARS (Earthquake Alert and Report System). We investigate whether opening such systems to the population at large would further strengthen the link between communities of volunteer citizens, intelligent systems, and decision makers, thus going in the direction of developing more sustainable and resilient societies. Our analysis highlights fundamental chal- lenges and provides interesting insights into a number of research directions with the aim of developing human-centered social media-based systems

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“…To address the problem of the wide dispersion of local knowledge, various computer-mediated systems and data mining techniques have been developed to automatically discover and aggregate diverse sources. Kavanaugh et al [27] developed a Virtual Town Square (VTS), a local news aggregator that a ords civic interaction through tagging, commenting, and sharing insights. However, even data are aggregated, they may still be too large for policy makers to make sense of them.…”

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Community Issue Review

Sun

Cai

2017

Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

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Civic engagement in public decision-making requires that people form opinions or judgments based on the insights and knowledge around a public issue. Such knowledge is o en not easily accessible by citizens because information about a policy issue tends to be sca ered and buried in large and complex sources of potentially diluted and messy data. is creates information barriers that prevent ordinary citizens from e ectively participating in government issues. We present an approach to addressing this problem that involves crystallizing the bits and pieces of knowledge sca ered in the data into a form of knowledge that is well-framed, compact, and trustworthy to the citizens. is approach is articulated as a knowledge crystallization framework that specify the goals and processes of crystallizing policy knowledge. Following this framework, we present a concrete process, community issue review (CIR), that can be practiced as public decision analysis tools in a variety of community contexts. We implemented and used CIR in evaluating a real community proposal and observed the positive impact on the level of engagement. In the same time, we received feedback on how the CIR process and the supporting technology can be improved or be made more exible to support best practices.

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Encouraging civic participation through local news aggregation

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Citizens Inclusion in the Political Decision-Making Process as a Determinant of Sustainable Development Implementation

Citizens Inclusion in the Political Decision-Making Process as a Determinant of Sustainable Development Implementation

On the need of opening up crowdsourced emergency management systems

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