E-Participation
The event E-Participation is a module consisting of the lecture E-Participation (2 SWS) and the related seminar E-Participation (2 SWS).
Audience for the module:
- Master Information Systems in second year
- Master E-Government in first year
- Master Informationsmanagement in second year
- Master Web Science in second year
Module description:
- new exam regulations (from winter 12/13): 04WI2010
- old exam regulations (before winter 12/13): E-Participation WIMW06 as well as equivalent to 'Implementation of Business Informatics, module WIMW04
Kick-off:
8th November 2013, 13:00 - 18:00, Room E 524
Amount of work:
- presence: 60 hours
- self-study: 120 hours
Language:
- The whole module (lecture and seminar) will be held in english.
Course assessment:
- Participation along the lecture - with engagement in group works
- Seminal works and presentations along the block seminar, which will be held in february 2014
- Topics for seminal works will be assigned along the lecture.
Learning objectives of module
Students
- are able to describe the domain of e-participation and to distinguish it from e-government
- have knowledge about theories and methods of e-participation
- know tools and technologies used in e-participation
- are able to apply a structured engineering approach to plan, analyze and design e-participation projects
- know about cases and are able to categorize and assess these cases along methods used, tools and technologies deployed, success of the project and impact generated
- know key success criteria, different evaluation methods and how successful current and past e-participation projects are/were
- can estimate the impact and value-add of e-participation.
Content of lecture and seminar
The course will provide a deeper understanding of the field e-participation. It will deal with the following contents:
- Overview of e-participation as a research field
- Research methods, theoretical grounds as well as tools and technologies for e-participation
- Methods for analyzing, conceptualizing and managing e-participation projects
- Introduction to selected cases of e-participation. The cases will be investigated along theoretical grounds, methodological approaches used in the case implementation, technical and organizational settings, as well as impact of e-participation endeavor and use of solution. Presentations given along the lecture will be complemented by students along their seminal works.
- Monitoring and evaluating e-participation projects
- Impact of e-participation to society and assessment of the public value-add
Format guideline for seminal works
Seminal works have to comply to the format template of ACM. Length of papers: max. 8 - 10 pages. This includes the list of references.
Literature
- Proceedings of annual eParticipation conferences (Springer LNCS)
- R. Davis (ed.), The Web of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Deliverables of DEMO-net. See www.demo-net.org
- Project cases and deliverables of MOMENTUM and respective projects. See www.ep-momentum.eu
- Proceedings of Online Deliberatin 2010, Leeds University Business School, UK, 2010
- OECD, 2003, Promise and problems of e-democracy. OECD study
- Macintosh, A. & Coleman, S. (2004). Promise and Problems of E-Democracy, Challenges of online citizen engagement, OECD
- Initiative eParticipation & Stiftung MITARBEIT (Hrsg.): E-Partizipation - Beteiligungsprojekte im Internet. Verlag Stiftung MITARBEIT: Bonn, 2007
- Case descriptions from www.epractice.eu
Further reading will be provided in the SVN along the lecture.