Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide

With growing demand for transparency, accountability and citizen participation in policy making and service provision, engagement between citizens and their governments, as well as with donors and the private sector that deliver government services, is increasingly important. Increased use of tec...

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spelling okr-10986-237522021-05-26T09:05:20Z Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide World Bank Group citizen participation civil society development digital divide evaluation public engagement governance government responsiveness government accountability With growing demand for transparency, accountability and citizen participation in policy making and service provision, engagement between citizens and their governments, as well as with donors and the private sector that deliver government services, is increasingly important. Increased use of technology brings both opportunities and challenges to citizen engagement processes, including opportunities for collecting, analyzing and evaluating data about these processes. This guide provides practical steps to assess the extent to which digital tools have contributed to citizen engagement and the help to understand the impact that the introduction of technology has had on the engagement processes. With examples and lessons from case studies from Brazil, Uganda, Cameroon and Kenya, the guide provides practical tools and guidelines for use in evaluating the expanding field of digital citizen engagement. 2016-02-25T15:17:07Z 2016-02-25T15:17:07Z 2016-02-25 Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23752 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research Brazil Cameroon Kenya Uganda
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topic citizen participation
civil society development
digital divide
evaluation
public engagement
governance
government responsiveness
government accountability
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civil society development
digital divide
evaluation
public engagement
governance
government responsiveness
government accountability
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Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide
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description With growing demand for transparency, accountability and citizen participation in policy making and service provision, engagement between citizens and their governments, as well as with donors and the private sector that deliver government services, is increasingly important. Increased use of technology brings both opportunities and challenges to citizen engagement processes, including opportunities for collecting, analyzing and evaluating data about these processes. This guide provides practical steps to assess the extent to which digital tools have contributed to citizen engagement and the help to understand the impact that the introduction of technology has had on the engagement processes. With examples and lessons from case studies from Brazil, Uganda, Cameroon and Kenya, the guide provides practical tools and guidelines for use in evaluating the expanding field of digital citizen engagement.
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title Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide
title_short Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide
title_full Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide
title_fullStr Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement : A Practical Guide
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publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
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