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Axis 2 - Uses and Effects of Digital Tools on Democratic Participation and Political Work

"Developing expertise in the design of digital democracy : a comparative and transdisciplinary approach (France- Québec-Brazil)"

Agor@ntic Team (University of Avignon) : Clément MABI, Magali NONJON, Yonathan PORTILLA, Alexandre REIFFERS, Marie-Hélène SA VILAS BOAS Ciberdem (UNRIO): Renata ARUJO, Claudia CAPELLI

To introduce

• A special meaning of transparency : “it should

not only provide information to the governed people but also increase interaction between state and citizens” (Meijer, 2012)

• Transparency and e-democracy
• One focus : digital participatory tools and

design (the digital participatory budgeting, the OGP approved experiences, e-democracy community)

Our questions

• Do participatory devices reinforce the opening
• f the decision-making process or should they
• nly be understood as tools of marketing that

sustain conventional and hierarchical decision- making mechanisms ?

• How the diffusion of these digital participatory

tools contributes to the development of a digital participatory expert network (scientist and professionals) ?

A transdisciplinary approach

• Combine expertise of system ingeneering,

complex network, games theory, computer sciences, data mining, communication studies and political sciences

3 axis

• 1- How to evaluate and improve digital

participatory tools ?

• 2- Digital tools of participatory democracy :

a political device

• 3- Digital participatory design and tools :

circulation, diffusion and professionalization

1- How to evaluate and improve digital participatory tools ?

• A common belief that deserves to be

questioned : it's sufficient to provide a participatory tool to generate citizen participate

• A case study : evaluate and test the effects of

the functionalities used in the case of the Brazilian digital participatory budgeting

Digital Participatory Budgeting in Brazil

• An online version of a famous institution in

Brazil, initially based on face-to-face assemblies

• One common purpose : involving inhabitants

in the allocation of part of the investment budget

• Twenty digital PB in Brazil
• Several design : digital PB do not garanty in

the same way transparency and participation

The digital Participatory budgeting of Belo Horizonte

Two challenges

• Study the design of each digital PB to

understand which kind of transparency and participation model is promoted

• Identify and develop functionalities that could

enhance the democratic quality of digital participatory tools and design

How to compare ? the contribution of Ciberdem team

2- Digital tools of participatory democracy : a political device

• Developping collaborative research between

Ciberdem (UNRIO) and Agor@ntic (University of Avignon) teams

• Bringing the expertise of political sciences and

communication studies to better understood which kind of transparency and participation model is promoted in the digital participatory tools

Two assumptions

• Each digital participatory tools is a political

device (Barry, 2005)

• There is a cultural anchoring of technologies

Supply the contribution of the ciberdem's team

• Identify the actors who develop, promote or

use the digital participatory tools (professionals, scientists and civil society)

• Focus on the meanings and the representations

given to these tools by these actors

• Study the political and sociological context in

which these tools are developed

Two qualitative and field surveys

• Digital participatory budgeting in Brazil :

3 case studies (Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre and Rio Grande do Sul state)

• 1) Conceptions of participation : Do digital

participatory budgetings value an individual or a collective mobilization ? Is it based on traditional forms of participation (vote) or alternative ones ?

• 2) Actors : Who contributes to the circulation of

this tool ? Does this circulation go with a standardization of the design?

Two qualitative and field surveys

• The OGP approved experiences (France,

Brazil and Quebec)

Data.gouv.fr

3- Digital participatory design : circulation, diffusion and real impact

Two main studies

• The E-Democracy Researchers Network (CV

lattes)

• The Facebook E-Democracy Community

(Netvizz)

The E-democracy researchers network

• Study the spread of digital democracy and

participatory tools in Brazil, France and Quebec

• Our hypothesis : scientists play a key-role in

the promotion of digital democracy...they are also a vector of standardization and commercialisation of digital democracy

• The CV lattes data base

The CV lattes data base

The CV lattes data base

The facebook e-democracy community

• This community has two components:

Facebook page owners (Leaders) and Subscribers (Followers).

• Study the impact of the interaction between:

A Leader with a Leader A Follower with a Follower A Leader with a Follower

A macroscopic perspective

A microscopic perspective

• Evolution of the interaction between

subscribers

• Evolution of User Expertise in E-Democracy
• Interaction between subscribers and page
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Thank you !