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From participation to e-participation: the German case

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ICEGOV '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance

Pages 355 - 360

https://doi.org/10.1145/1509096.1509170

Published: 01 December 2008 Publication History

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This paper informs about the public policies on e-Participation in Germany. At the moment e-Participation happens in political niche arenas and does not have real impact or importance on political decision-making. Activists and researchers promote the field of e-Participation but not the institutional political system. Thus no coherent strategies or public policies exist by political bodies at federal or state level. The e-Participation experiments practically show the options and risks of innovations of the political system in regard to better represent or empower the citizens but do not allow a generalization of the often somewhat sobering results. Currently the German federal government shows rising awareness for e-Participation but sees it as an integrated part of a representative e-Government. Driving forces of innovation, the political system towards e-Participation comprises activists and civil society movements simply using web 2.0 tools and techniques for their purposes: better organization, rising awareness and gaining power.

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