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= Spreathink ST= Situational Complexity SCI= 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

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

• Characteristic 1,
  
• Characteristic 16,
  
• Characteristic 10.

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Participants

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