{"id":773,"date":"2021-08-24T19:38:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/?page_id=773"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T10:11:14","slug":"synthesis-report-and-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/synthesis-report-and-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthesis Report and Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><div class=\"pbs-main-wrapper\"><h3>  Voice or Chatter? Making ICTs Work for Transformative Citizen Engagement  <\/h3>\n<p>The synthesis report of this multi-country research study explores how ICT-mediated citizen engagement can promote democratic governance and amplify citizens\u2019 voices. Digital choices for democracy can empower or disempower citizens; they can present citizens with real alternatives for equality, thereby deepening democracy, or prove costly for both individual citizens and the polity as a whole.Carried out by IT for Change, the study adopted a comparative case study methodology, building its analysis on empirical explorations of ICT-mediated initiatives in eight countries. In each country, a specific digital citizen engagement initiative was selected as an aid to understanding the historical evolution and particular institutional context of e-participation, through the interplay between structures of governance and citizen agency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbs-row\">\n<div class=\"pbs-col\"><figure id=\"attachment_774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-774\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/RReport_VoiceorChatter_Online.pdf\" xlink=\"href\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-774 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/research-report-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/research-report-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/research-report.png 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Full Research Report<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"pbs-col\"><figure id=\"attachment_775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ResReportSummary_VoC_Online.pdf\" xlink=\"href\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-775 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/res-report-summary-211x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/res-report-summary-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/res-report-summary.png 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 85vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Research Summary<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"pbs-col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pbs-row\">\n<div class=\"pbs-col\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pbs-col\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice or Chatter? Making ICTs Work for Transformative Citizen Engagement The synthesis report of this multi-country research study explores how ICT-mediated citizen engagement can promote democratic governance and amplify citizens\u2019 voices. Digital choices for democracy can empower or disempower citizens; they can present citizens with real alternatives for equality, thereby deepening democracy, or prove costly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/synthesis-report-and-summary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Synthesis Report and Summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/mavc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}