Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
The recent rapid evolution of digital technologies has been changing behaviors and expectations in countries around the world. These shifts make it the right time to pose the key question this paper explores: Will digital technologies, both those...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/907721570027981778/Citizen-Engagement-Emerging-Digital-Technologies-Create-New-Risks-and-Value http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32495 |
| Summary: | The recent rapid evolution of digital
technologies has been changing behaviors and expectations in
countries around the world. These shifts make it the right
time to pose the key question this paper explores: Will
digital technologies, both those that are already widespread
and those that are still emerging, have substantial impacts
on the way citizens engage and the ways through which power
is sought, used, or contested? The authors address this
question both to mitigate some of the World Bank’s
operational risks, and to initiate a conversation with peers
about how those risks might require policy shifts. The
overall framing question also is being explored in case
theapproaches to citizen engagement advocated by the World
Bank are changing and may require different advice for
client countries. Despite the lower technology penetration
levels in developing countries, their more malleable
governance contexts may be more influenced by the effects of
emerging technologies than older states with greater
rigidity. Digitally influencedcitizen engagement is, in
short, one of those “leapfrog” areas in which developing
nations may exploit technologies before the wealthier parts
of the world. But countries can leapfrog to worse futures,
not just better ones. This paper explores what technology
might mean for engagement, makespredictions, and offers
measures for governments to consider. |
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