SDDP Reinventing Democracy - Challenges (African Initiative)

SDDP Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) Report Report Title Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) Report Project Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (UNDEF) Triggering Question ""What are key shortcomings of our current systems of governance that could be improved through technology?"" Dates 9 - 13 May 2016 Author(s) Yiannis Laouris Maria Georgiou Total Duration 737 person hrs Statistics Participants=16 Number of ideas=57 Number of Clusters=6 Ideas received Votes=38 Ideas on MAP R=18 Spreathink ST= 28.5% Situational Complexity SCI= 8.49 Download [1]

Executive Summary

The Triggering Question (TQ) was
What are key shortcomings of our current systems of governance that could be improved through technology?

In response to the TQ, the 16 participants came up with 57 characteristics, which were categorized in 6 clusters. Following the voting process, 38 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

Influence tree from the Characteristics SDDP of the Reinventing Democracy workshop for TQ

According to the participants of this workshop, appear to be the most influential were:

• Characteristic 1, Lack of possibility to vote in elections online.
  
• Characteristic 16, Lack of motivation to participate and take action.
  
• Characteristic 10, Lack of specific information and political education.
  

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Participants

Name	Country
Abdulkarim Taraja	Kenya
Abel Mavura	Zimbabwe
Abiba Abdallah	Ghana
Apollo Murigi	Kenya
Appiah Evelyn Opoku	Ghana
Bill Graham Osei Akomea	Ghana
Daniel Ehagi	Kenya
Eleanor Opiyo	Kenya
Georgina Mabezere	Zambia
Gideon Ayodo	Kenya
James Gondwe	Malawi
Jedidah Millapo	Zambia
John Oyaro	Kenya
Melvis Lu-uh Kimbi	Cameroon
Paul Kasoma	Uganda
Rahab Wairimu	Kenya