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Presentation on new ways to run policy consultations online, held at ePart 2012 conference in Kristiansand, NorwayTRANSCRIPT
E-Consultation – A Review of Current Practice
and a Proposal for Opening Up the Process
Steffen Albrecht
ePart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway
4th September 2012
Research Context: The IMPACT Project
EU funding (FP7-ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling)
Duration: 2011 – 2013
Partners: Fraunhofer FOKUS (Lead); U Amsterdam; U Leeds;
U Liverpool; UID GmbH; Zebralog GmbH & Co KG
Aim: to develop tools to support the use of argumentation
in policy debates
- Argument Reconstruction, Argument Visualisation,
Policy Modelling, Structured Consultations
E-Participation
Administrations
Political Institutions
Citizens, Stakeholders
Civil Society Organisations
Information Third party
transparency
Consultation Campaigns,
Lobbying
Cooperation Petitions,
Complaints
E-Consultations
2001 – Promoted by OECD
2012 – Widespread adoption globally (UN EGov Survey)
– Standard practice in EU policy-making
Aims:
- Connect government and citizens
- Increase legitimacy of policy-making
- Raise quality of decisions
Agenda
Setting
Policy
Formulation
Decision
Making
Implementation
Evaluation
E-Consultations
2001 – Promoted by OECD
2012 – Widespread adoption globally (UN EGov Survey)
– Standard practice in EU policy-making
Problems:
- Limited connections
- Lack of transparency
- Limited use of technologies
Agenda
Setting
Policy
Formulation
Decision
Making
Implementation
Evaluation
Opening Up E-Consultations: A Proposal
E-Consultations
- should be deliberative
- should use specific technologies
- should open up towards the social web
Opening Up E-Consultations: A Proposal
E-Consultations
- should be deliberative
- should use specific technologies
- should open up towards the social web
Deliberation increases transparency
Deliberation allows for opinion formation
Deliberation serves as filter for proposals
Opening Up E-Consultations: A Proposal
E-Consultations
- should be deliberative
- should use specific technologies
- should open up towards the social web
Natural language processing facilitates analysis of large-
scale debates
Formal models of argumentation help to visualise debates
and focus on rational justifications
Opening Up E-Consultations: A Proposal
E-Consultations
- should be deliberative
- should use specific technologies
- should open up towards the social web
Social web as a space of lifewordly political debates
Acknowledging knowledge shared on the social web
Not one-way, but transparent connections
E-Consultations
- should be deliberative
- should use specific technologies
- should open up towards the social web
Opening Up E-Consultations: A Proposal
Argument Reconstruction
Argument Visualisation
Policy Modelling
Structured Consultations
E-Consultations
- should be deliberative
- should use specific technologies
- should open up towards the social web
Opening Up E-Consultations: A Proposal
Argument Reconstruction
Argument Visualisation
Policy Modelling
Structured Consultations
allow for new procedures
How to protect the privacy of participants who are not
participating actively?
How to identify relevant contributions to a given policy
issue?
How to change administrative culture from „experts“ to
„partners“?
What role for intermediaries in the policy process?
Open Issues and Questions
Your questions?
Dr. Steffen Albrecht
Zebralog GmbH & Co KG
Berlin, Germany
www.zebralog.com
www.policy-impact.eu