Publications
2015 | |
2. | Dirk Burkhardt; Kawa Nazemi; Egils Ginters Best-Practice Piloting Based on an Integrated Social Media Analysis and Visualization for E-Participation Simulation in Cities Journal Article In: Procedia Computer Science. 2015 International Conference Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education, vol. 75, pp. 66 - 74, 2015, ISSN: 1877-0509. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: E-Participation, Policy Making, Semantic visualization, Simulation @article{Burkhardt2015e, E-Participation and the engagement of citizens in politics are on the agenda in many countries. Therefore, a number of project and programs were initiated that aim at finding creative and effective solutions for involving citizens. One intended aspect is the provision of transparency that enables citizens to analyze socio-economical indicators and serves as basement for initial data storing for e-participation scenarios simulation. A beyond going step is to consider citizens’ opinions in the policy making process. Unfortunately this will only be possible; if a significant number of citizens know what concrete aspect should be realized. The growth and establishment of social media nowadays allow most people to discuss political ideas and critics virtually and anonymously achieving higher credibility of the data usable for policy making. However, the major barrier is the different topical languages, the representatives’ role and weak visualization of the results. This article dealt with a best-practice piloting approach for discussing and realizing innovative solutions with a variety of stakeholders from different domains. The core of this paper is how to deal and manage the different perspective on development process, to aim on designing a common set of requirements and development procedure. The methodology is practically and beneficial applied as social media integration solution in the EC FP7 FUPOL research project. |
2014 | |
1. | Dirk Burkhardt; Kawa Nazemi; Christopher Klamm; Jörn Kohlhammer; Arjan Kuijper Comparison of e-Participation Roadmap in Industrial and Developing Countries Based on Germany and Kenya Inproceedings In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, pp. 399–402, ACM Press, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-60558-611-3. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: digital inclusion, E-Government, E-Participation, information-communication-technologies, public participation, study @inproceedings{Burkhardt2014bb, This paper compares the E-Participation roadmaps of industrial and developing countries, based on Germany and Kenya as representatives. Therefore, the ICT roadmap of each country is described in a clear shape and with representative E-Participation projects of each country. Based on these projects, the comparison is performed on a categorical level in terms of (1) participation forms, (2) used ICT, and (3) socio-political requirements. Afterwards, the results are summarized to determine an overall view on the E-Participation situation in both countries. As a result of the comparison similarities and significant differences will be identified. The results are useful for software developing organizations that want to create ICT governance tools for industrial as well as developing countries and therefore need to consider the characteristics and requirements of both country types. |