http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2008/05/26/what-is-e-participation/ Experiments in Civic Sensemaking Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:00:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2008/05/26/what-is-e-participation/#comment-17 Tim Tue, 27 May 2008 19:46:38 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=25#comment-17 Thanks, Paul! Good point. Thanks, Paul! Good point.

]]> http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2008/05/26/what-is-e-participation/#comment-15 Paul Johnston Tue, 27 May 2008 08:02:28 +0000 http://www.intellitics.com/blog/?p=25#comment-15 Obviously a word can be defined in all sort of ways depending on what you are trying to get at. One interesting issue raised by the definition you cite is whether e-participation should focus exclusively on democratic decision-making processes, i.e. decisions that are currently made by elected representatives. Arguably, there is a lot of scope for e-participation in administrative decision-making, e.g. what proportion of the funding of my local library is spend on dvds as opposed to books, what sort of books are purchased, what times the library opens etc. The old phrase "e-democracy" has focused the issue of e-participation on the political process, but I see just as interesting an agenda in relation to what you might call administrative processes and decisions. Obviously a word can be defined in all sort of ways depending on what you are trying to get at. One interesting issue raised by the definition you cite is whether e-participation should focus exclusively on democratic decision-making processes, i.e. decisions that are currently made by elected representatives. Arguably, there is a lot of scope for e-participation in administrative decision-making, e.g. what proportion of the funding of my local library is spend on dvds as opposed to books, what sort of books are purchased, what times the library opens etc. The old phrase “e-democracy” has focused the issue of e-participation on the political process, but I see just as interesting an agenda in relation to what you might call administrative processes and decisions.

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