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Social Efficiency of E-participation Portals in Russia: Assessment Methodology

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Digital Transformation and Global Society (DTGS 2018)

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The paper presents a methodology for e-participation portals social efficiency assessment based on the United Nations (UN) approach. The system of indicators frames a political decision-making cycle and covers 3 dimensions of social efficiency such as political, technological and socio-economic. The methodology developed involves factors that are available from open sources. The authors present results of the methodology approbation on 5 e-participation portals in Russia. The findings have revealed the portals studied show the least progress in socio-economic dimension of social efficiency compared to political and technological ones.

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This work was conducted with the support of RFBR grant No. 16-36-60035, “The research of social efficiency of e-participation portals in Russia”.

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  1. ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Lyudmila Vidiasova & Iaroslava Tensina

  2. Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russia

    Elena Bershadskaya

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Daniel A. Alexandrov

  2. Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Alexander V. Boukhanovsky

  3. Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andrei V. Chugunov

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    Yury Kabanov

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Vidiasova, L., Tensina, I., Bershadskaya, E. (2018). Social Efficiency of E-participation Portals in Russia: Assessment Methodology. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 858. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02843-5_5

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