With the supreme political authority’s endorsement, an e-participation movement, namely “online enquiry politics” is developing vigorously in China. Among the variety of local e-participation experimental practices in China, the study deals with the Guangdong e-participation system as a...

Der Beitrag untersucht die Bestandteile und Prinzipien des Open Government-Konzeptes mit Blick auf gesellschaftliche und strategische Entwicklungen. Neben der Abgrenzung dieser Prinzipien und der Definition damit verbundener Termini („open“, Gemeinwohl) wird „offene Staatskunst“ zu drei...

Long-term planning with a time-horizon beyond 20 to 30 years is an established element of policymaking in some core fields such as certain infrastructure policies, and is a substantial principle of sustainable development. At the same time short- and medium-term planning is much more usual in...

With the diffusion of the World Wide Web expectations were raised that electronic tools may stimulate citizens’ participation in political decision-making. Across Europe many e-participation projects have been funded over the last years but seldom have attempts been made to assess the effects....

e-Partizipation benötigt Regeln für die Rechte und Pflichten der Diskursteilnehmer. Hauptsächlich werden in diesem Zusammenhang Regeln eingesetzt, wie sie ab den späten 1960er Jahren im Rahmen der Diskursethik diskutiert und später in der Theorie der deliberativen Demokratie...

Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA) is said to increase democratic legitimacy, take up lay knowledge and improve technological solutions. Today it is part of science/technology policy rhetoric and, sometimes, practice. We confront some elements of the scholarly discussion on PTA with...

Media, telecommunications, and computing/information systems (commonly referred to as information and communication technology, or ICT) have long been associated with economic development and social/cultural change. Historically, analyses of ICT and social change have relied on measures of the...

This essay is a result of many years of thinking about the role of technology in human life and about the ways in which new technologies develop. It may be viewed in two ways: either as a history of technology since earliest times to the present, with emphasis on ways in which technology...

The paper is a first step to assess the status of e-participation within the political system in Austria. It takes a top-down perspective focusing on the policy framework related to citizens´ rights in the digital environment, the role of public participation and public policies on...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung des Web 2.0 für die Wissenschaft: Einleitend werden die Begriffe Cyberscience sowie Web 2.0 beschrieben und zueinander in Beziehung gesetzt. Im Hauptteil werden typische Web 2.0-Dienste im Einsatz in der Wissenschaft untersucht: Soziale Netzwerk-Dienste,...