‘applied e-democracy’ & the need for a conceptual framework supporting digital development eSociety Institute | The Hague University of Applied Sciences Bert Mulder | associate professor Martijn Hartog | researcher

‘government of the future’ programme the urgency for broad adoption of ICT throughout existing democracy: “applied e-democracy” the need to support quality development through a functional model “value chain for democracy”

urgency for broad implementation of ICT in democracy reduction in government workforce in 2020: – 50% reduction in healthcare and education in 2020: – 30-50% a different urgency to transform government and broadly implement e-democracy

applied e-democracy broad adoption: all democratic issues in all municipalities “what is the size of the existing democracy?” a democracy is maintained by a limited number of conversations: 200-300 issues annually (for a Dutch city of 500.000) 80% small 15% medium 5% large existing IT editing staff project sites

a perceived disconnect developing high quality e-democracy solutions is hard research supports understanding, not development deliberative democracy theory game theory e-democracy research designing digital solutions democracy technology ?

conceptual framework to stimulate faster implementation and quality of solutions for broad and structural adoption of e-democracy a conceptual framework is necessary functional decomposition mapping democratic processes onto information processes democracy technology

conceptual framework a value chain for e-democracy ‘functional steps necessary to uphold a service” informing deliberating valuing decisionmaking voting the ability to inform and be informed the ability to exchange views to weigh and rank issues to decide on issues to choose between alternatives democracy technology

conclusion and further research broad implementation of e-democracy necessary three challenges scale, complexity and quality a design science for e-democracy is necessary ‘applied e-democracy’ requires specific research logically model democracy onto information processes identifying criteria for quality identify dynamics for development

‘applied e-democracy’ & the need for a conceptual framework supporting digital development eSociety Institute | The Hague University of Applied Sciences Bert Mulder | associate professor Martijn Hartog | researcher