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ICT for Dialogue and Inclusive Decision-Making
About This Book
Public consultations are a weak but institutionally embedded form of civic participation in political decision-making. Their input and output are often a cause for concern. This has motivated the authors to design the inDialogue platform to help transmit knowledge about the methodology of public consultations. It follows the deliberative public consultation model, and recognizes the value of social inclusion in knowledge-sharing and argument exchange in building an open political community. In this book, researchers as well as practitioners, in their respective fields, discuss various aspects of the inDialogue software's development and implementation. They document the complexity of the work that was carried out in an applied interdisciplinary project in the area of democratic innovation.
«The value of this volume is not only in its presentation of inDialogue as an innovative application enabling those with disabilities to access public debate and consultation, but also in raising important questions about the introduction of ICT for debate and consultation. These questions are answered from both the perspective of the technical and social sciences.»
Jerzy Bartkowski, Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University
« ICT for Dialogue and Inclusive Decision-Making is a splendid contribution to the literature concerning online deliberation and civic engagement. It usefully bridges the academic world of theory and empirical studies, and the practice of citizen deliberation, carefully documenting both the design and experiences of the In Dialogue project in Poland.»
Todd Davies, Associate Director and lecturer, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University
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- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: ICT and Dialogue in Democratic Innovations (Anna Przybylska)
- Chapter 1. Social Research and Public Consultations (Jacek Haman)
- Chapter 2. ICT Solutions for Public Consultations: Methodology and Design of the InDialogue Platform (Anna Przybylska)
- Chapter 3. The Online Anonymity Controversy: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Implications for the InDialogue Platform (Maja Sawicka and Anna Przybylska)
- Chapter 4. Where ICT Meets Disability (Bartosz Stępień and Jacek Zadrożny)
- Chapter 5. ICT Solutions for Voice Moderated Debates (Robert Bembenik, Anna Przybylska, Aneta Świercz and Jacek Zadrożny)
- Chapter 6. Usability Testing of the InDialogue Platform (Paweł Tymiński and Marta Kołodziejska)
- Chapter 7. Integrating the InDialogue Platform into the Local Administration ICT Environment (Tomasz Kulisiewicz)
- Chapter 8. How ICT Tools Intervene in Public Consultations (Radoslaw Sierocki)
- Chapter 9. Public Consultations in Media Narratives: The Case of Olsztyn and Nowa Dęba (Marta Kołodziejska and Klementyna Świeżewska)
- Chapter 10. Opportunities and Barriers to the Use of the InDialogue Platform by Local Government Administration (Tomasz Potkański)
- Conclusions: Factors for the Absorption of Innovation (Anna Przybylska)
- About the Authors