Start Date
12-13-2015
Description
The e-public engagement plays more and more important roles in public decision-making process. It’s essential to understand the current status, gaps, and future research directions for e-government platform design, particularly for the approaches to improve the interactive engagement with public opinions. This paper is a first attempt to review a series of literature on e-public engagement from an historical perspective by revisiting a series of concepts including the public sphere, the public engagement, the e-public sphere, and the e-public engagement. The concept of public engagement is thus clarified and the public needs framework is presented to clarify the need to re-design e-government platform contents to engage citizens in a more interactive approach. The review results of this paper suggest that a theoretical framework focusing on e-public engagement shall be investigated by future researchers.
Recommended Citation
Aham-Anyanwu, Nnanyelugo and Li, Honglei, "Toward E-Public Engagement: A Review of Public Participation for Government Governance" (2015). ICIS 2015 Proceedings. 13.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2015/proceedings/eBizeGov/13
Toward E-Public Engagement: A Review of Public Participation for Government Governance
The e-public engagement plays more and more important roles in public decision-making process. It’s essential to understand the current status, gaps, and future research directions for e-government platform design, particularly for the approaches to improve the interactive engagement with public opinions. This paper is a first attempt to review a series of literature on e-public engagement from an historical perspective by revisiting a series of concepts including the public sphere, the public engagement, the e-public sphere, and the e-public engagement. The concept of public engagement is thus clarified and the public needs framework is presented to clarify the need to re-design e-government platform contents to engage citizens in a more interactive approach. The review results of this paper suggest that a theoretical framework focusing on e-public engagement shall be investigated by future researchers.