Goverati: e-Aristocrats or the delusion of e-Democracy

Cost Optimization:

Intermediaries

e-Aristocrats or de delusion of e-Democracy

Goverati

Ismael Peña-López

Krems, May 6th, 2010

eDem20 - 4th International Conference on eDemocracy 2010

Danube-University Krems

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Peña-López, Ismael. (2010) Goverati: e-Aristocrats or de delusion of e-Democracy

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Information

Labour

Deliberation

Argumentation

Accountability

The

Democratic Process

Basic structure of the productive system

Parties

Industrial Society

Scarcity

+

Transaction

Costs

+

Intermediation

Production

Process

Input:

Resources

Output:

Products

Voting Expliciting preferences

Capital

Negotiation

Opinion shaping

Governments

e-Politics Divide

Digital Competences

Digital Adoption

Inner digital divide

Parties ruling offline rule online

Digital Divide

Knowledge Gap

Online influentials are former offline influentials

Extrarepresentative (often marginal) participation

60% used the Internet in the last 3 months

36% has never used the Internet

39% used the Internet daily (or almost) in the last 3 months

29% searched government information in the last 3 months

6% of all sales were made through the Internet

40% would not feel e-competent if had to change job

28% feels comfortable using office software

25% feels comfortable using the Internet

8% makes an advanced use of the Internet

case: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login (#1 Google)

case: what is a web browser (8%)

Source: Eurostat, 2010, for Spain

Daily Me

Echo chambers

Information

¿Digital Citizens...

...or Digital Excluded?

Labour: Knowledge

(potential)

Benefits of

Digital & 2.0

Democracy

Citizens

Digital Identity

First-person voice

Participation, engagement

Community building

Deliberative democracy

Conversation

Agenda setting

Local politics

All topics, long tail

Collective wisdom

Independent information

Multiple sources of information

Monitorization

Visual information

Immediacy

Virality

Crossmedia

e-Democracy

Deliberation

Argumentation

Accountability

Information Society

Basic structure of the digital productive system

Scarcity?

+

Transaction Costs?

+

Intermediation!?!?

Productive

Process

Input:

Information

Output:

Information

(potential)

Benefits of

Digital & 2.0

Democracy

Parties

New institutional channels

Politics 2.0

Cyberpolitics, cyberactivism

Grassroots engagement

Voting Expliciting preferences

Capital:

ICTs

Negotiation

Opinion shaping

(potential)

Benefits of

Digital & 2.0

Democracy

Governments

Transparency

Accountability

Traceability

Social control, distributed power

Open government