E participation via open gov

e-Participation via OpenGov

Features and Prospects

Anastasia Papastilianou

Head of Documentation and Innovation Unit

National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government

EKDDA

Coordinator www.opengov.gr

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http://www.opengov.gr/



The presentation includes: Characteristics for e-participation Results from e- participation process Good Practices for Participation Development Opportunities


Participation

Social Participation

Private Participation

Public Participation

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The use of ICTs to support the engagement of citizens

in actively defining the process and content of

decision and policy making,

acknowledging equal standing for citizens in

setting the agenda,

proposing policy options and

shaping the policy dialogue(OECD)


e- Public Participation

http://www.oecd.org/mena/governance/36785341.pdf

Participation Levels , OECD:

Information , One Way relationship: e-Enabling

Consultation, Two Way relationship: e- Engaging

• Consultations

• Polls, Surveys, Forums

Active Participation, Partnership: e-Empowering

• Co-Operation

• Co-Decision

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http://www.oecd.org/mena/governance/36785341.pdf

The main Principles of Participation Inclusion

Wide Range of Participation, Representation

Transparency, Accountability , Openness

Open Issues, Articles, Rules, Methods ,Factors , Open Data etc.

Effectiveness, Efficiency

Appropriate Steps, Process , Outcomes with Appropriate Budgets

Cohesion, Assessment

Transparent monitoring , Co-regulation, Self –regulation, Reaction, Evaluation, Feedback, Analysis


Types of Participation

Citizen Juries

Citizen Panels

Deliberative Polls

e-Surveys

Group Forums

Consultations

Petitions

Referendums

Elections


e-Participation vs Digital development and Inclusion

Low Digital Development /Inclusion High

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e-Public Participation

via Opengov in Greece

• Open Consultations

• Open Calls for Recruitment

• Open Information

• OpenLabs

• Open Contact with Government

www.opengov.gr



Promote Participation in Greece

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Prime Minister’s Initiative 2009

Regulation No 85 /2010 of the Greek Parliament

Law No 4002/2011 for “Supporting opengov”

Law Νo 3979/2011 for “Electronic Government”

Law Νo 4048/2012 for “Regulatory Government”


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Open Government Partnership (OGP),

– International Initiative which was launched in 2011

– Platform to make governments more open

– Improve accountability, and responsiveness to citizens

– Greece has participated since 2012

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/country/greece


http://www.opengovpartnership.org/country/greece

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Open Access

Use and Exploitation of Social Media , RSS Feed

Improve Awareness (newsletters, Advertising , videos,..)

Open Data

New Synergetic Methods

– Innovative Actions (e.g.OpenLabs, Innovative and Collaborative Workshops, Hackathons

– Good Practices Awards with Peer Evaluation

Incentives to enhance participation

• Public Awards

Open Source Technologies and Tools

Open Education


C1. Open Information, Announcements,

C2. Open Depository

C3. Open Consultations

C4. Innovative Workshops and Labs

C5. Open Calls for Recruitment

www.opengov.gr

www.ekdd.gr



http://www.ekdd.gr/

C1. Open Announcements, Open Contact http://www.opengov.gr/home/category/announcements

http://www.opengov.gr/home/events

C2. Open Depository- Open Data http://resources.ekdd.gr/knowledge/

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http://resources.ekdd.gr/knowledge/



Place : Where do they take place?

Amount : How many have been done?

Subject : What Kinds have been done?

Reaction: Is there any feedback? Is it useful?

Challenges: What are they ?



Where do the Consultations take place in Greece ? www.opengov.gr

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Where do the Consultations take place in Greece ?

Main portal : www.opengov.gr Other Portals: Region portals: http://opengov.pdm.gov.gr/cons/ Municipalities Portal http://www.edialogos.gr/





http://opengov.pdm.gov.gr/cons/

http://www.edialogos.gr/

How many

Consultations have been done from 2009 –until now?

• The different Consultations : 519

• The total Articles : 12.294

• Contact People from Government: 520

• Comment Managers from Government : 1200

• Total Comments : 142.451

• Average number of Comments per Consultation : 274

• Average time per Consultation : 12 days

Resource : www.OpenGov.gr



http://www.opengov.gr/opengov/Totalstats.php

Number of Consultations for 2014

• The different Consultations : 87

• The total Articles : 2.214

• Contact People from Government: 100

• Comment Managers from Government : 194

• Total Comments 18.654

• Average number of Comments per Consultation : 214

• Average time per Consultation : 17 days

Resource : www.OpenGov.gr


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Number of Consultations 2010 -2014


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Relation between Number of Consultations, Articles and Comments



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Subject of Consultations Percent

Legislative Draft 46%

Presidential decree 2%

Ministerial Decision 8%

Incorporation of EU directives 10%

Pre Legislative document 2%

Regulation/Frame 2%

Action Plan 2%

Procurement 14%

Specifications 6%

Strategic Documents 8%



Percentage of Comments on different subjects 2010-2014



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Percentage of voting legislations that pass

through Consultation process : 98%

Percentage of Consultations with uploaded

reports on opengov : 12%

Reaction and Outcomes of Consultations

2009 -2014



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Percentage of Authorized Comments


Total comments

Approved Comments

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Consultation’s Assessment

Different Approaches and Methods for evaluation

Implementation Tracking Measurements/Indexes Self Assessment Web Research Field Research Independent Reporting Mechanism IRM


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Graph 2. Content accessibility of www.opengov.gr

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Citizens

Government

Not at all Little Average Good Excellent

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Graph 1: Process Satisfaction www.opengov.gr

Government and Citizens have different opposing views


Very Dissatisfied

Dissatisfied

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Satisfied

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Citizens

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View of Utilized Feedback

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Citizens Government

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Government and Citizens have opposing views

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Feedback of Comments

Embedded Proposals and Comments

Government ----- Greater than 70%

Citizens ---- Less than 25%

Government and Citizens have a different view


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Main Consultation’s Problems

There is a gap between Regulations, Typical Process

and implementation practices

Structure of documents, the content( e.g Mixed content,

Titles of the articles)

Lack of Integration: Different implementation from

ministry to ministry

Insufficient representation of local government and

Municipalities

Inadequate time for deliberation

No publicity of the deliberation report


C4.1 OpenLabs

C4.2 Hackathons: Synergetic Development of Tools and Applications (hackathons –governathons)

C4.3 Innovative Workshops

Special Consultations

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C4. Innovative Workshops and Labs



C4.1 OpenLabs

We Collect and Evaluate Good Practices, Ideas and Applications :

http://labs.opengov.gr/labs

Open Call for Collection

Assessment and Recognition of the Best

Prototype and Modeling

Open Presentation

Dissemination and Distribution


http://labs.opengov.gr/labs



C4.1 OpenLabs

https://opengov.ellak.gr/2015/12/10/prosklisi-diagonismou-it4gov-ydmed-opengovgr/

11/1/2016-17/2/2016

web application

mobile application

Webservice

• 1ο Award : 4000€

• 2ο Award : 2000€

• 3ο Award : 1000€











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(http://labs.opengov.gr/)

Promote Initiatives

C4.1 Open Participatory Labs


http://labs.opengov.gr/


C4.2 hackathons

Synergetic Development of Tools and Applications hackathons –governathons

Problem Identification

Call for Participation

Problem Analysis and Synergetic Definition

Development of Tools and Applications

Synergetic Fine Tuning of Solutions


C4.2 Synergetic Development of Tools and Applications

1st Award Application A.G.IN.A.R.A.

2nd Award Application Public Open Data Cloud

3rd Award Application Mobile Greek OpenGov Search App

hackathons –governathons

1st Public Awards “Open Public Data Hackathon”

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C4.2 Synergetic Development of Tools and Applications

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https://opendata.ellak.gr/ https://odi.ellak.gr/

hackathons

https://opendata.ellak.gr/

https://odi.ellak.gr/

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C4.2 Hackathon for Organizations Charts

C4.3 Innovative Workshops

The main objective of the Innovative Workshops is to bring together policy-makers, officials, topic experts and civic activists to discuss Policies and Practices in a common and structural way.

The outcome will be fed into :

Recommendations for policy makers on specific topics

Designing principles and Framework

Roadmaps for Implementation

etc.

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C4.3 Innovative Workshop for Interoperability

Framework


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C4.3 Innovative Workshop for Open Data


When?

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Where ? at EKT

https://opendata.ellak.gr/2015/12/09/ergastiri-tis-eellak-

me-thema-ta-anikta-dedomena-ke-tin-anikti-

diakivernisi/

Title: “Open Data and Open Governance:

Advantages and Limitations. "

Open Calls or Open Invitations

is a process for Human Recruitment in many different Positions with certain criteria and prerequisites

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Positional Categories:

Secretary General

Presidents of Public Authorities

Revocable Officials

Board Members

Project Team Members /Experts

Evaluators

Auditors/Inspectors

Trainers

Human Acknowledgment Process

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Statistics for 2014

Counts

• 11 Calls

• 379 Positions

• 1.350 Submissions

Average number of Evaluators, Experts

– 50 Evaluators

– 20 Contact experts for data management

– 20 help desk representatives

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D. Open Human Networks

Support human Groups to Improve Active Participation (Groups classified by field or sector)

200 Contact Representatives per Year for :

Consultations, Open Calls,

Improve Awareness

5.000 officials in Education/Training

activities

dissemination actions over 30.000

officials per year


D. Open Human Networks


Main goal is to romote Openness through the

use and the development

ofOpen Standards and Open Technologies

in Education, Public

Administration and Business inGreece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_sector

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece

What has been

achieved!

Public

Participation

implementation

acceptance

Availability

Standardization

Trasparency Openess

Good Practices

What has been

achieved!

Public

Participation Good

Practices


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Good Consultation’s Practices

Consultation Identity

Standardization of Final Report of Consultation

Methods for Analyzing Comments

Developed Tools

Constant Human Support Network

Good Technical Support

Data Centre and Common Infrastructure

Indexes


http://www.ekdd.gr/ekdda/index.php/gr/telikes-ergasies-esdd

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Public Consultation with Web 2.0 Technologies

Dissertation of Vasilis Courbanis (student of ΕΣΔΔΑ)

DebateGraph is a cloud-

based tool to

externalize, visualize,

question, and evaluate

comments by facilitating

constructive dialogue on

complex issues

DebateGraph

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Debategraph Τελική Εργασία ΕΣΔΔΑ

Κουρμπάνης Βασίλειος

Dissertation of Chaido Savva

ΕΣΔΔΑ







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Dissertation of Kostas Soulis ΕΣΔΔΑ



What hasn’t been achieved ….

Public

Paricipation

Broad Information

Full Accessibility

Process

Consistency

User Friendliness

Appropriate Feedback Response

Citizen Confidence

• Enchancment of Legislations

• Common Principles and Standard Regulations

• Improve New Tools and Methods for Integration – Link Opengov with Parliament System

– Link all consultations with opengov

– Continue Evaluation

• Extension to other Categories and Types (e.g. Petitions, Citizen Panels Deliberative Polls )

• Broadening Participation through Education

What can we do with Consultations?

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What can we do with Consultations ?

– Consultations in different areas • Procurement,

• EU Directives

• Agenda Setting

• Pre Legislations,

– Support Human Networks

– Adopt to Local Government

– Decentralized Processes

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• Initiate Law and Regulations

• Functional Intergration

• System Improvement

• Promotion and evaluation of executives from the Base (Bottom Up Acknowledgment)

• Extension of Application to other categories of internal staffing

• Improve Process, Tools and Methods for Human Resources Analytics (talent analytics)

What can we Do with Open Calls ?



• Further Implementation

• Greater participation

• Expansion

• Specialization

• Finalization of the Framework

• Systematic Assessment

Perspectives

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Participation is a pioneering and innovative action for our democracy

Significant steps have been made towards public participation

Much more remains to be done in order to improve this effort

Conclusions



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The National Centre for Public

Administration and Local Government

EKDDA

is the supporting centre

for promoting and providing

collaborative actions


Thank you

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