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Digital Citizen Participation – Involving Citizens Through Immersive Systems in Urban Planning

Fegert, Jonas ORCID iD icon 1
1 Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing (IISM), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Citizen participation is a democratic practice that became, especially on a local level, an important mean for the public to be included in the development of their immediate surrounding. With the digitalization of work and social life also the digitalization of the public sector, including governmental action, began. This process, as a research discipline called digital government, includes addressing how the interaction between citizens and their state should be designed. A meaningful way to do so are digital platforms that enable participation in governmental action. Digital Citizen Participation, a concept introduced in this dissertation, tries to include recent technological innovations in e-Participation platform design. This dissertation argues that these innovations might help overcome general barriers in participation processes. When it comes to construction projects in urban environments for example, public debates and protests may arise if architectural plans remain unshared or are not sufficiently accessible for the citizens they might affect. To involve the public affected by urban planning, offering easily graspable visualizations for citizens is key. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000147640
Veröffentlicht am 09.06.2022
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing (IISM)
Publikationstyp Hochschulschrift
Publikationsdatum 09.06.2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000147640
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang viii, 210 S.
Art der Arbeit Dissertation
Fakultät Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (WIWI)
Institut Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing (IISM)
Prüfungsdatum 02.06.2022
Schlagwörter e-Participation, Digital Democracy, Digital Citizen Participation, Digital Government, Immersive Systems, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Qualitative Research, Experimental Research, Design Science Research
Referent/Betreuer Weinhardt, Christof
Teubner, Timm
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