What is it about?
This paper describes and evaluates practical digital government initiatives of online deliberation and internet voting of the Open Government Partnership co-creation processes. In this inquiry, the case studies of e-participation and i-voting for open government policies in the Dominican Republic in 2014 and 2016 as well as in Brazil in 2016 and 2018 are compared. The objective of the study is to assess the impact of the digitally powered co-creation processes on open government in the Dominican Republic and Brazil regarding transparency, accountability, and participation.
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Why is it important?
Citizen e-crowdsourcing and i-voting at earlier stages elaborated at later in-person discussion and drafting by civil society and authorities in Brazil proved to be more empowering and efficient than just online voting for government-defined policy priorities in the Dominican Republic. Government approaches and practices of citizen engagement and process reporting affected the co-creation.
Perspectives
It becomes clear that to achieve greater co-creation transparency, participation, and accountability, it is recommended to introduce advanced e-deliberation and i-voting tools, perform wider outreach, conduct online and offline consultations at the early stages of policymaking, as well as document and communicate results.
Dmytro Khutkyy
University of Tartu
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This page is a summary of: Citizen Engagement and Open Government Co-creation: The Cases of Brazil and the Dominican Republic, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3598469.3598491.
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