Digitally Aided Sovereignty: A Suitable Guide for the E-Government Transformation?

Herzog, Christian; Zetti, Daniela

Digitally Aided Sovereignty: A Suitable Guide for the E-Government Transformation?

dc.contributor.author	Herzog, Christian
dc.contributor.author	Zetti, Daniela
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T12:09:26Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T12:09:26Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	We advocate for the adoption of an integrated strategy aimed at achieving increased participation via effective digital public administration services. We argue that it is urgent to understand the integration of participatory approaches from the field of e-democracy in digitalized public administration, as trendsetting e-government implementations are already underway. We base our arguments on the observation that the approaches in e-democracy and e-government seem to be locked into extremes: In e-democracy, (experimental) platforms have failed to create a participative political culture. E-government, in turn, narrowly perceives citizens as customers. Additionally, efforts to increase digital sovereignty have mostly been educational ones that support citizens' self-determined use of the digital but do not address sovereignty via the digital. As a result, digitalized public administration is not achieving its potential to create opportunities for participation during encounters with the administration. Hence, we argue for the adoption of a digitally aided sovereignty as a normative guide for an e-government transformation that strives to create opportunities for participation via the digital.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Herzog, C., & Zetti, D. (2023). Digitally Aided Sovereignty: A Suitable Guide for the E-Government Transformation? Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022: Practicing Sovereignty, 4–14. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/4.1
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/4.1
dc.identifier.eissn	2510-7666
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/61
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartof	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/4
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Technology (Applied sciences)	en
dc.subject	Public administration	en
dc.subject	Technology Assessment	en
dc.subject	Administrative Science	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	sovereignty	en
dc.subject	participation	en
dc.subject	political participation	en
dc.subject	democracy	en
dc.subject	effects of technology	en
dc.subject	electronic government	en
dc.subject	electronic democracy	en
dc.subject	public administration	en
dc.subject	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.subject	Technik, Technologie	de
dc.subject	Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft	de
dc.subject	digital sovereignty	de
dc.subject	e-government	de
dc.subject	digitally aided sovereignty	de
dc.subject	e-democracy	de
dc.subject	Technikfolgenabschätzung	de
dc.subject	Verwaltungswissenschaft	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	Souveränität	de
dc.subject	Partizipation	de
dc.subject	politische Partizipation	de
dc.subject	Demokratie	de
dc.subject	Technikfolgen	de
dc.subject	Electronic Government	de
dc.subject	elektronische Demokratie	de
dc.subject	öffentliche Verwaltung	de
dc.subject	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject.ddc	600 Technik
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title	Digitally Aided Sovereignty: A Suitable Guide for the E-Government Transformation?
dc.type	ConferencePaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle	Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	14
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	4