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Metrics to judge local e-democracy From: Mcnuttjg To Update Date: Jul 30 18:09 UTC Short link
Many of my friends who study social capital would have difficulty with your
contention.
Back to trust and usage. I don't trust many of the websites I visit. I have
a lot of software on my computer to protect me from them.
While I will concede that activity is important, it speaks more to other
factors. I also think that equating usage with participation is
problematic. What kind of usage is more critical. If I go to my town's
website to check on road closings or trash collection, that isn't political
participation (its more like low level e-commerce) but if I send the city
manager e-mail it might be.
-----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of Mick Phythian Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:53 PM To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy Can't agree more! It's the very complexity of social capital that would make it difficult to measure but trust in government using the medium must contribute towards it... I never said usage = trust but trust will increase usage but as a measure usage can't replace trust. What I think we need is a measure of proportionate activity that will indicate increasing or decreasing trust in the medium etc (not particularly in government) - that people become more willing to express opinions or attempt to have an effect via the e-mediums? M -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of John McNutt Sent: 30 July 2008 18:37 To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy Sorry but I can't agree. Social capital is more complex than merely trust (which is very difficult to measure reliably) in than it also speaks to the underlying networks that make a government function. Usage does not equal trust. If you mean things like hits, page views and so forth that's a long way from any reasonable measure of trust in government. -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of Mick Phythian Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:21 PM To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy I find terms like social capital and public value to be of little use, although in the widest sense an improvement in social capital may indicate increased trust. Mick -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of John McNutt Sent: 30 July 2008 14:30 To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy That would seem to argue for both a social capital measure and a trust in government measure -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of Mick Phythian Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:27 AM To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy One thing I don't think has been mentioned is a measure of usage i.e. perhaps trust. Its great having loads of e-demo stuff but if nobody uses it because they fon't trust/accept/want it, what then? Therefor amount of usage against any input metric. Mick http://greatemancipator.com -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of John McNutt Sent: 30 July 2008 02:29 To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy Add digital divide and degree of wired local associations. Maybe active political bloggers? John McNutt -----Original Message----- From: <email obscured> [mailto:<email obscured>] On Behalf Of Steven Clift Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:57 PM To: <email obscured> Subject: Re: [EDemR] Metrics to judge local e-democracy OK, how about others? On my list, a few items I'd measure: 1. All public meetings are announced online with agendas (1 point), minutes (1 point), and all handouts and staff reports (2 points, bonus point for online before a meeting). 2. 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