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Collaborative E-Governance: Contours of a Meaningful Epistemology; David Prosperi (Florida Atlantic University)
1. Collaborative E-Governance:
Contours of Epistemology
David C. Prosperi
Henry D. Epstein Professor of Urban/Regional Planning
Florida Atlantic University
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
prosperi@fau.edu
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PO TEN Z A , B A S I L I C A TA , I TA L Y
2. INTUITION PUMP: Conference Statement
Compared to
Do profound weak thought, is
changes in more profound
application of knowledge
IT only help us possible that
to what we would enable a
already do more effective
better? evaluation
process,
ensuring better
quality of
or decision making
and choices?
4. Paradigms
Scientific IT Professional
Deep Good Deep Good
Knowledge Decisions Knowledge Decisions
5. The Mindset of the Planning Theorist
Deep Network Good
Knowledge Power Decisions
6. Conceptual Issues
Conference
Statement Evidence / Empirical Issues
Process
Thinkers
E-
Governance
Trends & Popular GIS
Space INPUT
Complexity Numbers Writers NGOs
Power
Some Conclusions
7. 1. The Conference Question
Do What We Do Better Change the System
• GIS -> ArcGIS • Better Linkages to Decision
• Social Networking -> Makers -> DSS or PSS?
Mobile Communications • Develop Network
Power
8. Deep v. Doing Better
Deep The Better Q’s
Academics, at least, value Deep
Knowledge and Deep Democracy What the Planning Theory
(process) People Tell Us
Consistent with rationality,
scientific method, the value of
science to improve lives E-Government
(medicine, food , and tools)
Consistent with the notion of a
―class‖ of individuals who have
value in society as civic leaders More Complex Models
(Plato, but also ―public
intellectuals‖)
Is it still valid? (or am I a Understanding Power
dinosaur?)
10. Alternative Models of Planning
Best known physical
Architectural planners were
probably not Hausmann
Basis ―democratic‖ and
probably ―regressive‖
Engineering Megaprojects
See Flvybjerg criticism
(but also see Wachs in
Basis the late 1980s)
Political Citizen Participation
Systems Regime Theory (e-Citizen
Participation)
Collaborative
Planning Models
Basis
DONE BY AGENCIES FAR AWAY FROM DAILY LIFE OF CITIZENS
11. An Attempt to Summarize …
a belief that collaborative planning processes
supported by scientific research tends to be
a powerful internal network that moves
policy makers
12. Participation is not Collaboration
Collaborative Planning Emphasis on …
From Alternative Dispute
Resolution OUTPUTS are the
plans, projects, and
other tangible items
produced directly by
Focus on Process the effort
Assessing the performance OUTCOMES are the
of collaborative planning effects of the process
and its outputs on
changing social and
Difference between outputs environmental
conditions
and outcomes
13. Outcomes And the Role of Science?
Ozawa, among others, have
demonstrated that in
Social capital science-intensive
deliberations – when
Institutional Political
capacity capital scientific information is
produced collaboratively
(e.g., joint-fact finding,
Institutional Intellectual expert panel) – it can lead to
change capital such social outcomes as
stakeholder learning and
Innovation
mutual understanding of
complex problems.
14. Process: Networks and Networking Rules
A Plan is not a Concept in
one‘s head; rather, it is a
dialogue that occurs within Corollary: projects must
a social network structure have a purpose other than
in one‘s own head as a just in the mind of the
concept. developer. For example, to
develop an ontology for
Ostrom‘s (Nobel Economic oneself is useful for basic
Laureate, 2009) science, but is only useful
Institutional Analysis to the scientist acting alone
and Design methodology – it has no immediate USE
focuses on ―what difference
it makes‖ if things are done
one way or another
15. Errata (on this topic)
The crucial role of Mega-Governments
For example, the EU and its ―funding‖, resource (and policy)
dependence
The crucial role of NGO‘s
Each have a specific planning methodology
Lots of GIS work at this scale
Other word phrases: horizontal planning,
participatory design, collaborative planning software
(including all those models from the 1990s), project
planning, etc.
16. 3. Promise of E-Government
About how Internet
would change the
Best described as
world
―normative
About how E-
Government would
change the world
anticipatory
statements or
pronouncements‖
17. E-Government
E-Government “Domains”
Creates a comfortable, information
transparent, and cheap governance
and
communication
interaction between: technology
(ICT)
business
government relationship process re-
government e-citizen
and citizens
and business between engineering
enterprises governments (BPR)
(G2C)
(G2B) (G2G)
18. Governance (+ E-Governance?)
Entire Entry on
Wikipedia:
'eGovernance' is a network
Government of organizations to include
government, nonprofit,
and private-sector
entities; in eGovernance
there are no distinct
boundaries.
Non-
Profit
Profit
MESSY!!!!
A ―theory of governance‖
[e or not-e]????
19. What is Going on at the Local Level?
Ho, 2002 +
Prosperi, 2004,6
Franzel/Richardson 2003
Ho: Classified websites as Used multiple criteria
―informational‖, grouped into -
―administrative‖ and PRESENCE,
―user‖ for 55 large US INTERACTION,
cities; SES correlates -> TRANSACTION, and
poorer cities more DEMOCRACY - to
informational evaluate websites
Franzel/Richardson: 67 Some SES correlates ->
metro areas; regression -> poorer cities more
structure+, time ―government‖ than
invested+, income+ ―governance‖
20. Practice: Local Charettes
Geddes v. Neuman
‽ Can
Regions G: regions cannot be designed;
N: of course they can, we are having a
Be charette and regional design emerged
Designed as operative framework for the plan-
‽ to-be
21. Practice: Research in a Lab
Form (Rules)
Playful of Games
Part
Ici Planning Public
Systems Participation
Pation
Krek
Lanza Best Concepts of
Practices Games
22. 4. More Complex Models
Complexity Theory
Drivers and Stressors v. Place-Making or
Sustainability etc.
People v. Place
23. Complexity in the ‗Everyday‘ Environment
… the environment as subject
to processes of continuous
change, being either
progressive or destructive,
evolving non-linearly and
alternating between stable
and dynamic periods.
… if the environment that is
subject to change is adaptive,
self-organizing, robust and
flexible in relation to this
change, a process of
evolution and co-evolution can
be expected.
• From the Ashgate
Marketing Site
24. Complexity as a Planning Model
Thinking Differently for an
Age of Complexity
How Can Theory Improve
Practice?
Stories From the Field
The Praxis of Collaboration
Knowledge into Action: The
Role of Dialogue
Using Local Knowledge for
Justice and Resilience
Beyond Collaboration:
Democratic Governance for
a Resilient Society
25. 5. Power
Good Power v. Bad
Power
Social Capital as an
Alternative Form of
Power
??? Does Social Media
Create Social Capital???
26. Good↑ v. Bad↓ Power
• Communicative action theorists
• How ―science when integrated into the DM
process can depoliticize communications
and result in public learning, mutual
understanding, empowerment of
stakeholders and often consensus about
policy options
• Habermas, Innes, Forester, Ozawa, etc.
• Power expressed as coercion and
subordination of one set of thoughts to
another
• Power distorting the outcomes of …
―science‖ and/or … representative
democracy
• Power as domination over the decision-
making process.
• Flyvbjerg
27. Power (after Allen)
Instrumental Instrumental
Power – formal Power - informal
Power
Associational Associational
Power – formal Power - informal
28. Power in Informal Associational Networks
Mandarano (under review, JPER)
Both types of Power are Necessary to Study an Issue.
How it is possible to provoke more democratic outcomes,
positive-sum solutions that address multiple interests.
A Case Study to highlight how the relatively weak Habitat
Workgroup – having limited formal authority supporting its
agenda – effectively produced power in and through its
informal and formal networks altering the decision-making
process in the formal network.
The paper demonstrates how disempowered groups generate
associational power through mobilization of resources
available in informal networks and how such power is
transferrable to the formal decision-making process
29. The Key Idea Framework
(Creating Social Capital Digitally)
Social
Capital Effective
• Non- Decisions
Digitally
• Digitally
30. The Tools We Have
Websites
Email
Web-Based Surveys
Social Networking
Video Sharing
Virtual Meetings
Texting/SMS
Blogs/Micro Blogs (Twitter)
RSS
www.twitter.com
31. Conceptual Issues
Conference
Statement Evidence / Empirical Issues
Process
Thinkers
E-
Governance
Trends & Popular GIS
Space INPUT
Complexity Numbers Writers NGOs
Power
Some Conclusions
32. 1. Space
Hidden spatial structures
The “scale” of the analysis must match the
“scale” of the problem
33. The Image of the Region?
―Mega-city regions are … new large-scale urban phenomenon
… being discussed from both an analytical-functional and a
political-normative perspective … elements and driving forces
of mega-city regions are increasingly coming to light …
feeding the comprehension of the mega-city regions‘ decisive
role in economic, social and cultural development …
The relevant and responsible stakeholders and players are
being challenged – large-scale metropolitan governance is
called for …
A problem of transmission arises … seems to be little
awareness … to politicians, citizens, and administrators,
mega-city regions remain invisible in many respects: They
are rarely mapped, lack a name, image and attendant
concept, and hardly offer any direct sensual perception in
everyday life.‖
• From the Preface, Thierstein and Forster, 2009
34. Context: Preparing
a Strategic Plan for
Milano
Metropolitan
Region
Locals Don‘t Know
How The Milano
Metropolitan
Region Works
Ongoing Discussion
about Metropolitan Making Milano “Apparent”: A
Regions as Product Conversation with Alessandro
or Process Balducci
35. Making Apparent SoFlo
Theoretical Structures A Map
Traditional
Economic Base / Ecology
Cluster Theory
Polycentricity
Creative Class/City
Tourism and Branding
36. Growth of
South Florida
The TOP Chart
shows cumulative
building space
consumption
The BOTTOM Chart
shows the
distribution of
growth in built
space for each of the
individual county
units
38. Built Environment, 2005
The State of Florida‘s
Department of Revenue Tax
Collector Database
Florida‘s Department of
Revenue, Division of Ad-
Valorem Tax, Chapter 12D-8
specifies both the formal
state mandate and the
format of these records,
described in
(ftp://sdrftp03.dor.state.fl.us/).
In 2008, there are 76 fields
in the tax collector database
(or more abstractly, each
property is recorded as a
―76-tuple‖).
39. Thus, the debate goes
on; it might be out of
both academic and
political comfort zones.
New Conceptual
Models Focus on
Process Rather Than
Pattern
Change Should Occur
Within Processes Not
Patterns
Space and Complexity
regeneration-of.html
01/entrepreneurial-urban-
complexity.blogspot.com/2010/
http://urban-
40. 2. Levels of Participation
Theoretically, this should vary by stage in the
planning process. There are appropriate
tools for different stages of the analysis.
Rationality (a desired state for linear-
thinking – and object oriented planners).
But also ―irrational‖ (Kartez)
But also ―rational ignorance‖ (Krek)
But also ―predictably irrational‖ (Howe)
41. Peng Table
Planning Communication Interactive Map Scenario
Process / Web Browsing Static Map Channels for Based Search, Building
Images Discussion Query and Online Editing
GIS Analysis
Function
General
Information
Plan
Alternatives
Data
Analysis
Tools
42. Wikinomics: How
Mass Collaboration
Changes Everything
(2006) explores how some
companies in the early 21st
century have used mass
collaboration (also called
peer production) and open-
source technology, such as
wikis, to be successful.
MacroWikinomics out soon
(9/28/2010).
43. Some Wikinomics Terms
New Models of Mass
Principles/Basic Ideas
Collaboration
Marketocracy
• Collaborating Investing
Openness Platforms
Ideagoras
• Linking experts with
Peering unsolved R&D problems.
• Second Life as being
Sharing Prosumers
―Created‖ by its customers
Acting New • the internet as shared
Globally Alexandrians knowledge
44. Crowdsourcing is
the act of outsourcing
tasks, traditionally
performed by an
employee or
contractor, to a large
group of people or
community or a
crowd.
45. Examples of Crowdsourcing
Community-Based Design (or distributed participatory design):
The public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a
design task
Human-Based Computation: The public may be asked to carry
out the steps of an algorithm
Citizen Science: The public may be asked to capture, systematize
or analyze large amounts of data (but could also refer to mere ―data
collectors‖
Better if used with Web 2.0 technologies.
http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/
46. 3. Trends and Some Numbers
2000
Alexa
Google Trends
2009
47. The Story in 2000 (from Stanford)
E-mail is by far the most common Internet activity.
A little over a third of all Internet users report using the web to engage in
entertainment such as computer games
Consumer to Business transactional activity are engaged in by much smaller
fractions of Internet users.
The average Internet user reports engaging in 7.2 different types of activities.
Myth and Reality of the 'Digital Divide':
There are some demographic differences in Internet access.
There are few demographic differences in Internet use.
The more time people spend on the internet
The more they lose contact with their social environment
The more they turn their back on the traditional media
The more time they spend working at home; but not telecommuting
The less they spend shopping in stores and commuting in traffic
48. Alexa, a ranking and analysis website
(http://www.alexa.com)
Facebook users are well-educated, younger, it is the #1 site in
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Norway, #2 in US,
Italy, and most of Europe (except Netherlands and Poland), but
only 13th in Russia, 15th in Brazil, and 27th in Japan, and is over-
utilized from school.
Globally: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo!, WindowsLive,
Baidu, Wikipedia, Blogger, Twitter, MSN, QQ, Taobao, Amazon,
Sina,WordPress, e-Bay, Microsoft, Bing, Yandex.ru, LinkedIn, 163,
Myspace, Craigslist, FC2, Conduit, Mail.ru, Flickr, Vkontakte,
IMBD, Sohu, APPLE, LiveJasmin, Soso, BBC, Go, AOL,
RapidShare, Youku, PayPal, Double Click, ASK, Xvideos, CNN,
PornHub, MediaFire
After Google, Yahoo and Social Networking, Porn Trumps News
49. Google Trends ….
GIS (B), Climate Change (R), Sustainability (O), Urban Development (G)
51. 2009 Pew Study
Some 40% of adult internet users have obtained raw data
about government spending and activities.
look online to see how federal stimulus money is being spent (23% of internet users
have done this);
read or download the text of legislation (22%);
visit a site such as data.gov that provides access to government data (16%); or
look online to see who is contributing to the campaigns of their elected officials
(14%).
Some 31% of online adults have used social tools such as blogs,
social networking sites, and online video as well as email and text
alerts to keep informed about government activities.
Minority Americans, Latinos and African Americans are just as likely as whites to
use these tools to keep up with government, and
Minority Americans, Latinos, and African-Americans are much more likely to agree
that government outreach using these channels makes government more accessible
and helps people be more informed about what government agencies are doing.
54. Major Points of ―The Shallows‖
New technology: dumbing down v. democratization of
culture.
Every intellectual technology embodies a work ethic and
every medium develops some cognitive skills at the
expense of others.
Brain is ―plastic‖ -- parts can grow and/or contract – but
at the expense of other functions -- hippocampus
―Ecosystem of Interruptions‖ or ―Distraction from
Distraction by Distraction‖
Retention – loss of long-term memory (and ―working
memory‖ v. ―long-term memory‖)
Shallow reading, shallow decisions?
56. Major Points of Cognitive Surplus
For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and
intellect as passive consumers. Suburbanization and education has yielded a
surfeit of intellect, energy, and time– the cognitive surplus.
But this abundance had little impact on the common good because television
consumed the lion's share of it-and we consume TV passively, in isolation.
New media that allow us to pool our efforts at vanishingly low cost. This
includes mind expanding-reference tools like Wikipedia-to lifesaving-such as
Ushahidi.com, which allows Kenyans to sidestep government censorship and
report on acts of violence in real time.
Society and our daily lives will be improved dramatically as we learn to
exploit our goodwill and free time … by returning our society to forms of
collaboration that were natural through the early 20th century.
We are entering an era of lower creative quality on average but greater
innovation, an increase in transparency in all areas of society, and
a dramatic rise in productivity that will transform our civilization.
57. Ushahidi
(means testimony in Swahili)
http://www.ushahidi.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi
58. Neuroscience Findings are Available
How unexpected discoveries of
neuroscience help us make the
best decisions.
Philosophers have described the
decision-making process as either
rational or emotional: we carefully
deliberate or we go with our gut.
Neuroscientists are discovering
that decisions are a finely tuned
blend of both feeling and reason
and the precise mix depends on the
situation. The key is how and when
we use the different parts of the
brain, and to do this, we need to
think harder (and smarter) about
how we think.
How does the human mind make
decisions? And how can we make
those decisions better?
59. It is More Than Rational Ignorance …
We (might by) Predictably Irrational
We consistently overpay,
underestimate, and procrastinate.
This book refutes the assumption
that we behave in rational ways.
Yet these behaviors are neither
random nor senseless. They're
systematic and predictable—
making us predictably irrational.
60. Evidence Pro and Con
(there is NO correct answer)
SMARTER DUMBER SMARTER DUMBER
61. 5. Institutions
The Players
INSPIRE (EU Scale
Organization) + Its They are too Far
Subordinates
From the Public
JRC
Plan4All
EUROGI – AM/FM types
AGILE – the academic Meta-Narratives
laboratories
Academic/Professional
Conferences
Bad Power?
City Branders/Visions
NEXTHAMBURG
62. Tomlinson et al. (3/2010)
Outline of Article in
Major Argument
IJURR
…
Approach and Methodology
Google Searches are Not Labels and Integrated Policy Packages
Random, but are Ownership
Labels and the Creation of Integrated Policy
Structured
Packages
Googling Urban Policy
Text Analysis and Page Rank
Major Narratives are
Links in Practice
The Labels
Created and Maintained by City Development Strategy
Powerful Institutions
Slum Upgrading
Municipal Services
Municipal Capacity Building in Developing
Countries
In this Case: World Bank
Municipal Finance in Developing Countries
Concluding Observation
and UN Habitat PPP and Alternative Perspectives on
Water Delivery
Conclusion
63. Conceptual Issues
Conference
Statement Evidence / Empirical Issues
Process
Thinkers
E-
Governance
Trends & Popular GIS
Space INPUT
Complexity Numbers Writers NGOs
Power
Some Conclusions
64. An Epistemology of E-Governance?
Based on a Process Model
For Different Levels of Government
Incorporating More Than Land
Focused on People
65. Need for a Theory of Governance
Governance (and eGovernance) is Messy!!!
Need to Better Explore Notions and Likelihood of
Deep Democracy
The Process Thinkers
But also others [Ostrom (IDA), Pat Wilson (Deep
Democracy)]
Case Studies are Nice, but …
All set in the context of “digital natives”
Digital analogies for e-governance theory
66. What Does Performance Mean?
Krugman Ostrom
Economic Efficiency
Income Equity Through Fiscal
Distribution
Equivalence
Productivity Re-Distributional Equity
and Income Employment
Growth Accountability
Conformance to General
Economic Morality
Well
Being Adaptability
67. It is the
Spatial
Question, Not
Polycentricity
the Rules
Complex
Institutional
Adaptive
Design
Systems
Polycentric Good Politics,
Metropolitan Bad
Governance Economics
68. For Different Levels of Government
We need to pay more careful attention to what our
digital analogies are really trying to do
Much of the GIS Work is Done at the National Level,
Far Removed from the Day to Day Activities of
Citizens
We need to articulate aspects of the digital milieu at scales that
matter
Problems ―occur‖ at different scales
Analysis should also ―occur‖ at appropriate scales
69. More Than Land
Space may be a third order concern (after food, shelter, and
perhaps even happiness)
Economic Development, Health, Basic Infrastructure
What is the purpose of a ―method‖?
NEEDS TO BUILD ON KNOWLEDGE FROM EACH
CASE STUDY – the need for a “scientific method” to
understand e-governance
70. For People
Planning remains a ―place‖ discipline or activity
Planning should focus on people
Their motivations and aspirations
Their role in self-determination
Their role as citizens
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(A Work in Progress)
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73. THANK YOU!
Less Deep
Closing the Gap
(Governmental GIS &
The Life of Citizens)
‽ The Power of Informal
Networks
Need to Develop More
Scalar Sensitive Digital
Analogs
(collaboratively?)