Your Comments Here: Contextualizing Technologies, Seeking Records and Supporting Transparency for Citizen Engagement

Forfattere

  • Grant Hurley University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/ta.1956

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

transparency, e-government

Sammendrag

Today, governments the world over are opening decision-making processes to citizen engagement as an aspect of open government. Citizen engagement initiatives may range from making information available and seeking feedback, to highly dynamic processes that transfer authority to communities and individuals. As part of these initiatives, governments are actively using digital technologies to gather, analyze, and store citizen input; activities that in turn create an array of records. My paper surveys a range of digital technologies used by Canadian citizen engagement case initiatives. In linking technologies, recordkeeping and citizen engagement, I present the combined frameworks of the IAP2 Spectrum and archival diplomatics as one method of understanding how recordkeeping and citizen engagement frameworks may be joined. I conclude with a discussion on defining and locating the records of citizen engagement initiatives and how records and recordkeeping may support transparency and trust in citizen engagement.

Forfatterbiografi

Grant Hurley, University of Toronto

Grant Hurley is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Scholars Portal, University of Toronto. He is a graduate of the Dual Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies program at the University of British Columbia. He also holds a Master of Arts in English from UBC. He currently serves as a director and editor of Off the Record for the Archives Association of Ontario and as a researcher with the InterPARES Trust project at the University of British Columbia. He has published previously on digital preservation and community archives and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Archival Science. 

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Publisert

2017-02-20

Hvordan referere

Hurley, G. (2017). Your Comments Here: Contextualizing Technologies, Seeking Records and Supporting Transparency for Citizen Engagement. Tidsskriftet Arkiv, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.7577/ta.1956

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Vol 8 Nr. 1 (2017): Trust and Transparency in E-government

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