1. ‘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

2. ‘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”

3. 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

4. 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: issues annually (for a Dutch city of )
80% small % medium % large
existing IT editing staff project sites

5. 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 ?

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. ‘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