Indicators and Methods for Evaluation ofeParticipation

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Indicators and Methods for Evaluation
of eParticipation

• Jitka Komarkova, Stanislava Simonova, Jiri
  Krupka, Hana Kopackova
• Institute of System Engineering and Informatics
• Faculty of Economics and Public Administration
• University of Pardubice

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Agenda

• Introduction and overview
• Proposed Indicators
• Proposed Methods - examples
• Concluding remarks

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Introduction to the Topic

• Direct democracy still rare examples
• Participation in general and participation of all
  members of a community

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Environment for Citizens Involvement

• Strong strategic governmental support
• Situation in regions (regional authorities and
  non-governmental organizations)
• Electronic services available
• Abilities and possibilities of the citizens

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Proposed Indicators

• General (statistical) indicators
• Number of accesses to the Web pages of the
  selected public administration authorities
• Number of suggestions sent by the citizens in
  digital form by means of ICT
• Number of various topics discussed on the Web
  sites of the institutions and number of
  discussants
• Number of universal and public access points to
  the Internet and/or eGovernment services in the
  region

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Proposed Methods

• Classical statistical methods
• Spatial analyses including spatial statistics
• Identification of the geographic center, or the
  center of concentration
• Detection of spatial autocorrelation
• Examination of the spatial patterns (spatial
  clusters)

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Geographic centers of utilization of PC by the
Czech households in years 2003 - 2005
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Getis-Ord hot and cold spots analysis of
utilization of PC by Czech households (given in
percents)
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Problems

• Only short time data series are available
• Data come from various sources
• Data are collected in according to the different
  methodologies
• Different quality of available data (e.g.
  precision, age)

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Conclusions

• ICT could allow the citizens to more easily
  participate in the public deals
• Large political support and investments
• Sets of indicators for measurement
• Data dispersed sources, different quality

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Thank you for your attention

• Jitka.Komarkova_at_upce.cz