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Some of our #cedem12 afternoon Sessions / Main Hall:
Bringing Citizens’ Opinions to Members of Parliament (Ruxandra Geana, Steve Taylor, Timo Wandhoefer)
With the EU-project WeGov Timo Wandhoefer introduced a toolset that allows policy makers taking advantage of citizen opinions on different topics. Searching for a special topic WeGov should allow policy makers to collect, aggregate, analyze and present inputs from citizens within most social networks by using visualization technologies. As a special challenge for using WeGov Wandhoefer mentioned respecting privacy.
Some of our #cedem12 morning Sessions:
The necessity of metadata for open linked data and its contribution to policy analyses (Anneke Zuiderwijk, Keith Jeffery, Marijn Janssen)
Anneke Zuiderwijk from the University of Technology, The Netherlands started the session by introducing the topic like the gaining importance of Open governmental data and for an example the EU-Project Engage (www.engage-project.eu – “An Infrastructure for Open, Linked Governmental Data Provision towards Research Communities and Citizens”). The importance of Linked open data (LOD) was leaded to Metadata, which are part of the LOD-process.
Keith Jeffery talked afterwords about different models of using Data and more in detail about Metadata. As an example he introduced the project www.eurocris.org and the CERIF Datamodel. Asked for an “best practice example” he recommended to search for “cristin + norway” or “fris + flanders“.
After the official opening by Danube University’s vice chancellor Viktoria Weber, chairs Noella Edelmann and Peter Parycek started the conference with interesting facts (like a 50% rejection rate, our current JeDEM Call for Papers and Michal Sachs‘ working desk). The first keynote Ralph Schroeder (UK) is specialising in how knowledge is changing through the internet and the sociology of advancing (online) knowledge. Old wine in new bottles or revolution?
Keynote 1: The Internet, Science, and Transformations of Knowledge (Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute, UK)
Ralph Schroeder mentioned that there is not too much research in Austria in the area. We do have @cyberscientist Michael Nentwich though who is specialising in science 2.0 and the usage of the internet in research – he has published a book called “Cyberscience 2.0“. So how have things changed? (From Web 2.0 to Big Data).
One of the things we need to look at is a good definition. e-Research can be defined as distributed and collaborative digital tools and data for knowledge production. Besides a good definition, a model capturing digital transformation of research is needed.
Science was always driven by machines, with the internet driving social sciences today. From the organisational part, we have research technologies/machines where people are gathering around. Whilst in the humanities we have patterns in words, numbers, images and sounds, social sciences are dependend on statistics, image analysis or mapping. The Oxford Internet Institute has been doing work on many different cases from literature to biotechnology asking the question what sort of transformation can be observed. One example of crowdsourcing techniques in science was “Galaxy Zoo“ where students had to classify galaxies according to their shapes – a task at which the human brain is better than even the most advanced computer. Happy classifying!
A popular case is e-research in Sweden, a country with a major e-research initiative. Sweden displays a use of population data in a transparent society with high trust between people, authorities and researchers. Another important aspect in science nowadays is who links to view and generally, visibility of research. A computational way forward in literature is developing networks and maps, e.g. of characters – the question here is to what extent we would like to advance this kind of research.
I participated in the second day of the #bsis Symposium (known as “Google Symposium” for many 
) which slowly but surely started off with the keynote of
Rebecca MacKinnon “Consent of the Networked”
on internet governance, freedom of speech, surveillance and revolutions.
Short-term political vs. global interests? Examples of Surveillance and reactions
I particularly liked the visual examples of how websites particularly look in China and how censory is put into words (“this is international practice”, “this page is temporarily not available”). Examples like the Dog poop girl of 2005 in South Korea (a girl who was hunted down by internet vigilantes for refusing to clean up after her dog in a subway) can also be used as evidence of “crazy people on the net”. In Korea, all users of website are required to use a national ID. Other cases are frequently quoted as an example of countries becoming less free due to the internet, like bloggers being arrested due to posting critical content.
Disconnection denies our rights? Mess with one of us. Mess with all of us.
Special Issue Vol. 3 (2):
Guest Editors:
Olivier Glassey, IDHEAP, Lausanne (olivier.glassey@idheap.unil.ch)
Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York (tpardo@ctg.albany.edu)
Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia (tambouris@uom.gr)
Concepts and policies that emphasise the idea of openness (Open Government, Open Data, Open Access) are currently discussed with view to their potential to strengthen transparency and accountability. They are seen as promising ideas for the vitalisation of citizens’ interest in politics, but also for economic and scientific innovation. These developments are expected to lead to more engagement and collaboration within public institutions and the development of respective tools and services.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Unter dem Motto “Öffentliche Wissenschaft, demokratische Wissenschaft?” stand ein Themenabend der Gruppe Internetforschung am 7.12.2010 im Quartier 21. Die Öffnung der Wissenschaft über Technologie und publizistische Veränderungen wird von vielen als Demokratisierung begrüßt. Für andere stellt sie eine Gefahr für Qualität und Unabhängigkeit von Forschung und Lehre da.
Neue Formen der Interaktion und Kooperation
Michael Nentwich vom Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung gab einführend einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der von ihm 2003 diagnostizierten Cyberscience zu einer offeneren und sozialeren Cyberscience 2.0. Das Internet als ständige Arbeitsumgebung für Kommunikation und Recherche von Texten und die kooperative Erstellung von Wissensressourcen bewirkt neue Formen des Interagierens zwischen WissenschaftlerInnen, aber auch zwischen diesen und Forschungsdaten.
In the afternoon of the second day, parallel panels on Transparency & Governance and E-Voting as well as two workshops were taking place.
Track: Transparency & Governance
Evgeniya Boklage: Communication without borders
The rather theoretical but inspiring presentation focused on successful communication and the concept of the public sphere. Boklage wants to avoid the traditional concept and substitutes it with a system based approach. Public sphere has three main functions (Neidhardt 1994): Transparency (input), Validation (throughput) and Orientation (output). The traditional system of mass media does not succeed to pay attention to all of that and the Blogosphere can possibly enhance that. However, the political system is shaped in a way so that the public sphere does not appear to be transparent. The question is whether the blogosphere is a real contribution to the public sphere and whether the internet empowers citizens (vs. just a symbolic phenomenon). Boklage presented some ideas how the blogosphere could enhance transparency, e.g. the blogophere as a tribune for NGOs or politically driven citizens.
The second day of the conference started with keynote speakers Micah L. Sifry and Stevan Harnard.
Micah L. Sifry: The Promises and Contradictions of eDemocracy – Obama Style
Sifry gave some insights into the characteristics and reasons for the successful Obama campaign by analsying the metrics produced by the campaign. In America there are extreemly long election campaigns and after 2 years of mobilising we can speak of mass mobilisation. Micah pointed out that it is the people who have felt empowered by the campaign at first. The election was called about 11 p.m. Within the next hour the streets were filled with people dancing and chanting which has never happened in the U.S. before.
Conference for E-democracy, E-participation and E-voting
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5-6 May 2011 Danube University Krems, Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem |
CeDEM brings together e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry.
Keynotes
- Axel Bruns Associate Professor, Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AUS)
- Caroline Haythornthwaite (Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, CAN)
- Elke Löffler (CEO, Governance International, Birmingham, UK)
- Doug Schuler (Program Director for the Public Sphere Project; Member of the Faculty at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA)
- Stefan Gehrke (CEO, Politik-Digital, Berlin, GER)
In the last 10 years, the world focused on the social media and the new forms of societal behaviour, including content generation, collaboration and sharing as well as network organisation. These behaviours and expectations, in particular transparency and access to data, new ways of interacting with government and democratic institutions will continue to develop, and profound changes in society are to be expected. Society has been confronted with “Open Government” and “Open Data”. What are the experiences so far? How do they impact society, democratic structures and organisations? What changes occur at citizen level? What are the implications for democracy, society, science and business?
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