Rethinking Governance via Social Networking: The case of direct vs. indirect stakeholder injection
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This document discusses two approaches to stakeholder engagement in governance via social networking: direct injection, where citizens directly engage with politicians on social media, and indirect injection, where citizens discuss policy issues online and their views indirectly influence politicians. It describes the WeGov project, an EU-funded initiative to build citizen-politician dialogue on existing social networks. Initial prototypes have been created and evaluated, with the goal of developing tools to support policymakers' work by analyzing online discussions.
Rethinking Governance via Social Networking: The case of direct vs. indirect stakeholder injection
- 1. Rethinking Governance via Social Networking: The case of direct vs. indirect stakeholder injection WeGov – Where eGovernment meets the eSociety EU research project: www.wegov-project.eu Enriching the dialogue of citizens and politics on the web – build-up on Social Networking Sites instead of launching a new eParticipation platform 7th framework programme theme ICT 2009.7.3 ICT for Governance and Policy Modeling Consortium: Progress Use cases for citizen politics dialogue Legal and ethical analysis Basic functionality extracted First prototype running basic scenario Presentation at German Parliament Scenario modification – ‘citations’ Initial toolbox evaluation Support policy maker’s everyday workflow (Final toolbox) Indirect Injection – “Online Newspaper Story” CONTACT: Timo Wandhoefer (timo.wandhoefer@gesis.org)