Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
(2016)
An ontology for next generation e-Participation initiatives.
Government Information Quarterly, 33 (3).
pp. 583-594.
ISSN 0740-624X
Abstract
Despite over a decade-long experience of implementing e-Participation initiatives, there have been limited efforts
so far to develop a detailed, comprehensive conceptualization for e-Participation considered from three distinct
perspectives: as democratic process, a project and a deliberation platform. Current e-Participation literature is replete with fragmented models, which only partially describe aspects of e-Participation with main focus on structuring the “e-Participation” concept as a domain. This has made consistent descriptions and comparative analysis
of e-Participation initiatives difficult, thus hindering the overall evolution of e-Participation. Consequently, no
comprehensive, formal, executable e-Participation Ontology exists, that could be directly leveraged to facilitate
operations of e-Participation initiatives or improving communication and knowledge exchange between similar
e-Participation initiatives. In addition, current generation of e-Participation models does not explicitly support
the emerging phenomenon of spontaneous, citizen-led e-Participation, in particular hosted on the social media
platforms. This work bridges this gap by providing a practical, yet sufficiently detailed, conceptualization along
with corresponding formal and executable ontology for next generation e-Participation. These semantic models
cover the core facets of e-Participation — as a democratic process, an initiative and a sociotechnical system. The
developed models also explicitly support the integrated citizen- and government-led model of e-Participation.
For demonstration and validation, we employed the developed e-Participation Formal Ontology as a “design
artefact” to describe two e-Participation initiatives at Local Government and European levels.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
e-Participation;
Duality of e-Participation;
Participatory democracy;
e-Participation initiative;
e-Participation ontology;
Online political deliberation;
Social media; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
12847 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2016.01.007 |
| Depositing User: |
Adegboyega Ojo
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| Date Deposited: |
01 May 2020 10:28 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Government Information Quarterly |
| Publisher: |
Elsevier |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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