Digital technologies are instrumental in improving the openness, transparency, and accountability of institutions and the participation and engagement of citizens in the government decision-making process. They allow governments to streamline and transform their communication processes and relationships with citizens, businesses, and other non-government actors through multiple digital channels. This more engaging digital governance model brings together the government and other stakeholders for discussion and policy-making decisions from the early stages of policy formulation until the monitoring of its implementation. It also provides open and linked data across all sectors of the economy, thus enhancing transparency, accountability, and springing entrepreneurship. This Track seeks innovative contributions in the form of new approaches, case studies or more theoretical and visionary papers that cross the boundaries of traditional bureaucracy and show the potential of e-Participation, e-Voting, collaborative and participatory online initiatives, and the future of digital democracy. This Track also invites papers on the application of crowdsourcing in the public sector to collect policy-relevant information, knowledge, opinions, proposals, and ideas from citizens and public value co-creation with citizens and businesses. The role, adoption and use of social media and digital platforms to promote and transform civic participation and engagement and open government data strategies are also a topic of interest in this Track.
#1 - The politics of digital technologies: reimagining social participation in the digital age | Bruno Sanches, Ergon Silva (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
#2 - e-Governance education for sustainable development: prioritising Sustainable Development Goals and building capabilities to drive progress | Alena Labanava, Innar Liiv, Ingrid Pappel (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
#3 - Consolidation: from southern urbanism to southern e-Governance | Mathews P Joseph (eGovernments Foundation, India)
#4 - Increasing inclusion and time-efficiency in participatory policy-making deliberations with e-Scribing technology | Gustavo Umbelino, Kristine Lu, Matthew Easterday (Northwestern University, USA)
#5 - Assessment of public information understanding using plain language and data visualization | Rodrigo Oliveira (University Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Claudia Cappelli (Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Jonice Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
