Digitally Aided Sovereignty – A Suitable Guide for the e-Government Transformation?

Abstract

We advocate for the adoption of an integrated strategy aimed at achieving increased participation via effective digital public administration services. We argue that it is urgent to understand the integration of participatory approaches from the field of e-democracy in digitalized public administration, as trendsetting e-government implementations are already underway. We base our arguments on the observation that the approaches in e-democracy and e-government seem to be locked into extremes: In e-democracy, (experimental) platforms have failed to create a participative political culture. E-government, in turn, narrowly perceives citizens as customers. Additionally, efforts to increase digital sovereignty have mostly been educational ones that support citizens' self-determined use of the digital but do not address sovereignty via the digital. As a result, digitalized public administration is not achieving its potential to create opportunities for participation during encounters with the administration. Hence, we argue for the adoption of a digitally aided sovereignty as a normative guide for an e-government transformation that strives to create opportunities for participation via the digital
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022 : Practicing Sovereignty - Interventions for Open Digital Futures
EditorsBianca Herlo, Daniel Irrgang
Number of pages11
Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
Publication date2022
Pages4-14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

DFG Research Classification Scheme

  • 4.43-04 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods
  • 1.23-03 Communication Studies
  • 1.23-04 Political Science

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Digitally Aided Sovereignty – A Suitable Guide for the e-Government Transformation?'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this