Digitalisation and politics terms and concepts

- A term that encompasses a growing number of digitally enabled activities in business, politics, and social interaction.

Every aspect of democracy or government that we can find in digital environments. Can be split up in ePetitions, eVoting, eCampaigning, eSurveillance

- governments compete with each other, citizens are less involved.

- Democracy is best run by following the laws and rules. Decision making and representation are the main goals.

- Encourage people to participate and vote

- more conservative/radical. All decisions only made with referenda.

- Focuses on autonomus politics, people should decide for themselves. An individual autonomy.

- Aim to socialize democracy, discuss and form opinions between organizations instead of individuals.

- A form of democracy where citizens decide on policies directly.

- A form of democracy where elected people represent a group of people

- Emphasizes guarantee of individual liberty, life and property.

- Importance of citizens

- Citizens perform politics through TV or internet

- Emergence of online communities to bring in people whose voice did not count before.

- Increase contribution through user-generated content: blogs, instagram accounts, online petitions,… Citizens are expected to participate more.

 - Organised group with a multiple number of members having the same goal or cause, and regrouping because of similar individual intentions.

 - A political approach that appeals to citizens who feel their concerns are disregarded by higher political powers.

- Illusion of choice.

 - Relationship between actor (politician, teacher) and forum (participants, students). + duty of an individual or organisation to answer on how (well) they conducted their affairs.

 - Full transparency and freedom of information.

- Government should explain the reason of their decisions.

- Government has to share the decisions they make.

 - Their meaning is different if associated or separated.

- They are separable but complementary. They produce good governance only in combination of each other.

- Working together, they can lead to problems. For example: Being transparent with international deals can lead to the failure of this deal.

- Person-to-person or person-to-machine communication in networked organisations and societies.

- Coming to an agreement together by deliberating.

 - In a representative democracy, you ‘vote’ for somebody that represents you.

- Citizens facilitate self-organisation.

- Being recognised or not in participating.

- You can resist against a government if they do not take you into regard.

- Electing certain people to represent you.

 - A sphere where every citizen can participate and share their opinions. They can also find information there. Main goal to keep the upper power in check and to regulate one-another.

 - Similar to a public sphere, but then in the virtual world (Digitalised Public Sphere). Not every citizen can participate in this, because you need a computer and an internet connection to participate in this.

 - Voting that uses machines to vote or to count ballots.

- Voting that is completely digital.

 - Imagines the city as a collection of infrastructures and services.

 - Views the city from the perspective of (economic) geography and ponders on local and regional systems of innovation.

- Addresses the city as a political and civic community.

 - The state should not intervene much in individual freedom and participation.

The state preserves the citizens’ values.

 - Contributing ideas for concrete development projects.

formulating vision for urban policy