Jusletter IT

Evaluation Management in e-Participation

  • Author: Michael Sachs
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Austria
  • Field of law: E-Democracy
  • Collection: Conference proceedings IRIS 2018
  • Citation: Michael Sachs, Evaluation Management in e-Participation, in: Jusletter IT 22 February 2018
This paper provides an overview of e-participation and discusses evaluation of e-participation. Based on the overview on e-participation and evaluation provided, the paper presents a process for the creation and execution of custom-made evaluations that suit the needs of individual e-participation projects. The described process for custom-made evaluation management addresses primarily practitioners and e-participation projects where structured and reliable project evaluation is required despite limited resources.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. E-Participation
  • 2.1. Success Factors
  • 2.2. Evaluation
  • 2.3. Frameworks and criteria
  • 2.4. The problem of ex post evaluation
  • 2.5. Methods for evaluation
  • 2.6. The evaluators
  • 3. Methodological approach of this paper
  • 3.1. Process for creating custom-made evaluation management
  • 3.2. Example
  • 4. Conclusion
  • 5. References