Nicolas Santana, Dominican Republic
Final Project, My Digital Artifact APRIL 14, 2017
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1
Citizen Engagement, Key Strengths
Citizen Participation is an important tool to strength the democracy. It is the core of the open government and is a factor of inclusion. “Its provide opportunity to bring togheter diverse set of citizens”.
Transparency, Accountability and Responsiveness are catalyst of the changes in the world as we see it today. Modern government must be open to citizens and show them and us that they are Transparent. They must be prepared to render account of their action. Governance must show a new approach to be successful. With the increase of people participation in the decision that government must make has been possible for them to obtain better quality of the public services. Access to information through increase in use of technology have bring huge change in the form that authorities manage the public administration.
Special points of interest:
Participation Government Governance Decision Making Accountability Transparency Responsiveness Auditing
What people think... According to American Psychological Association, … “Voting is a key component in civil engagement for the voice of the masses to be heard…”. This is a good example of how Civil engagement strength democracy. Accountability , Transparency and Responsiveness are value, norms and concepts that promote trust between authorities and people.
Three value demonstrate why Citizen Engagement promote changes. We can mention: Transparency, Accountability and Responsiveness as catalyst of the changes in the world as we see it today. Modern government must be open to citizens and show them and us that they are Transparent. They must be prepared to render account of their action. Governance must show a new approach to be successful. With the increase of people participation in the decision that government must make has been possible for them to obtain better quality of the public services. Access to information through increase in use of technology have bring huge change in the form that authorities manage the public administration.
Nicolas Santana, Dominican Republic
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Back Page Story Headline Citizen Engagement have brought big change to the world as example we can menCaption describing tion the picture or graphic. significant political changes that have occurred in Nigeria, Yemen and Ukraine. Another great example of game change introduced by Citizen Engagement is the Arab Spring where citizens played an important role and change the geopolitics of the region with them protects and claims for changes over there. Of Instrumental approach, Crow-sourcing, news contexts, all of them have been tools used by promote changes. News technology have introduced changes in costs and have make that information travel faster and both government and people keep better informed to find better ways of solving problems and crisis and be more comfortable in their interaction.
Definitely Citizen Engagement have been a magnificent game change of this century, the footprint will be recorded for decade ahead and will be use as experience to achieve good government and good governance to next generation. People must take part in engagement activities voluntarily. They think it is important to participate in decisions that affect their life. The concept of Civil engagement and Social Innovation are relevant to them.