EGOV05

International Conference on E-Government - EGOV05

::Valuing eConsultations: A theory-building workshop

Copenhagen, Denmark 22-26 August, 2005::

Outline of the brainstorming workshop:

• How can we evaluate eConsultation techniques and technologies when neither practitioners nor theorists share the same values?
• How can we even start to collect examples of 'best practice', when there is no agreement on what makes consultation better?
• Better for citizens, politicians or civil servants?
• How can we reconcile the different theories used by public administration specialists, deliberative democracy theorists, ontology builders, psychologists of computer mediated communication, and information systems designers?

Read earlier outcome on E-consultation Theory building workshop

We don't know the answer, so you will not be listening to speakers. Instead, participants in this workshop will work in small groups, exploring ways of reconciling these perspectives and theories. In an hour we cannot completely build a new theory: but we can start the work, and agree a research programme to develop our understanding what makes an eConsultation better.

This session is facilitated by researchers from the Irish cross-border eConsultation research project (www.e-consultation.org), from Queen's University Belfast, National University of Ireland Maynooth and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.