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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Main Authors:	Peixoto, Tiago, Steinberg, Tom
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY POLITICS CIVIC AWARENESS E-GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
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

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spelling	okr-10986-324952021-05-25T09:28:04Z Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value Peixoto, Tiago Steinberg, Tom CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY POLITICS CIVIC AWARENESS E-GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY 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. 2019-10-04T20:02:42Z 2019-10-04T20:02:42Z 2019-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/907721570027981778/Citizen-Engagement-Emerging-Digital-Technologies-Create-New-Risks-and-Value http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32495 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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spellingShingle	CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE ACCOUNTABILITY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY POLITICS CIVIC AWARENESS E-GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Peixoto, Tiago Steinberg, Tom Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
description	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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author	Peixoto, Tiago Steinberg, Tom
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title	Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
title_short	Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
title_full	Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
title_fullStr	Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
title_full_unstemmed	Citizen Engagement : Emerging Digital Technologies Create New Risks and Value
title_sort	citizen engagement : emerging digital technologies create new risks and value
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/907721570027981778/Citizen-Engagement-Emerging-Digital-Technologies-Create-New-Risks-and-Value http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32495
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