Paper vs. practice: How legal and ethical frameworks influence public sector data professionals in the Netherlands

Fest, Isabelle; Wieringa, Maranke; Wagner, Ben

doi:10.1016/j.patter.2022.100604

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“…The literature provides essential clues regarding studying key accountability principles applied to public service organizations. In Table 3, we find that Doshi-Velez et al ( 2017), de Bruijn et al (2022), andFest et al (2022) have stressed that accountability in public service requires government bureaucrats to justify and explain their decisions, mainly when using technological development. This justification or explainability of decisionmaking when employing technologies in public organizations supports accountability and promotes public trust in government services (Doshi-Velez et al, 2017).…”

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“…Defining accountability perceptions or interpretations will vary according to the era, societal roles, organizations' agendas, and political views. Fest et al (2022) state that accountability can be regarded as having responsibility. However, they add that accountability also means the implementation of transparency.…”

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“…This justification or explainability of decisionmaking when employing technologies in public organizations supports accountability and promotes public trust in government services (Doshi-Velez et al, 2017). For instance, Fest et al (2022) explain that this need for explanation or justification is presented among police officers; they translate this obligation to explain or justify the use of algorithms as part of being accountable actors in public service. Following the actor-forum relationship doctrine, we note that the explainability element includes justifying decisionmaking, as Molander et al (2012) pointed out.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Accountability and oversight in the Dutch intelligence and security domains in the digital age

Constantino,

Wagner

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Accountability is considered a cornerstone of public administration and good governance. This study characterizes the relationship between the Dutch Intelligence and Secret Service (“AIVD”) and citizens (represented by parliament, courts, and oversight boards) as a complex actor-forum relationship. We utilize different accountability principles of public administration found in international and Dutch instruments and academic literature to propose workable principles of accountability for the AIVD. These proposed principles of accountability can be summarized as acting within duty, explainability, necessity, proportionality, reporting and record keeping, redress, and continuous independent oversight. Similarly, there are some conditions to support the workability of accountability principles. These conditions may be characterized as productive actor-forum relationships, cooperation, flexibility, value alignment, and learning and improving opportunities.

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Accountability and oversight in the Dutch intelligence and security domains in the digital age

Constantino,

Wagner

2024

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“…Ethical, inclusive, and responsible digital administration requires insights from administrators, citizen-users especially those who are marginalised such as by disability. Ethical AI or similar principles and frameworks cannot simply be enacted [34] but must be interpreted and purposefully built by people with diverse knowledge and experiences.…”

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Design Principles and Tensions for Collaborative Digital Governance in an Artificial Intelligence Age

Henman

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Complex policy problems seem to be increasing, such as pandemics, climate change, poverty and inequality, and financial and political instability. Such challenges require collaborative and intelligent policy and administrative responses. Innovations in digital technology, such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), are routinely advocated as providing solutions. However, technology itself cannot solve these complex problems and can make matters worse. Rather, thoughtful, and deliberative approaches to designing collaborative digital administrative systems are needed; ones that appreciate both the strengths and weaknesses of digital technology and recognize the ongoing importance of humans in socio-technical administrative practices. This plenary paper will begin by outlining the promise of collaborative digital governance and some of the key emerging technologies being used by governments. Then, by examining several successful and unsuccessful examples of digital government projects, the paper will articulate a series of lessons in the form of design principles and tensions to balance. It is hoped that these design principles will assist public administration leaders to build the administrative solutions that challenge governments to enable society to steer towards shared futures.

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“…IF: At one point when we were working with our framework 1 to analyze our data, we got really stuck. We found points of the framework to be overlapping and felt we were constantly repeating ourselves.…”

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Paper vs. practice: How legal and ethical frameworks influence public sector data professionals in the Netherlands

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Accountability and oversight in the Dutch intelligence and security domains in the digital age

Accountability and oversight in the Dutch intelligence and security domains in the digital age

Design Principles and Tensions for Collaborative Digital Governance in an Artificial Intelligence Age

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