Projects enhancing participation with the citizen Mr Petteri

Projects enhancing participation with the citizen Mr Petteri Nyman web producer, Eduskunta Mr Aki Asola Information officer, Eduskunta 9. 3. 2021

9. 3. 2021 Background: Eduskunta, e-participation and social media First social media draft paper spring 2011: ”Possibilities of social media for Eduskunta” Key areas: • • • Social media included in official website of eduskunta Eduskunta in social networking services and other websites Eduskunta and open data • Eduskunta also participant in the new Finnish E-participation environment (governmental web service will be launched early 2012) 1

9. 3. 2021 Official website Eduskunta. fi New visual layout 2012 More webcasts: plenary sessions, press conferences, seminars etc. New: MP’s social media profiles on official parliament website: blogs, Facebook profiles, twitter, press releases etc. 2

9. 3. 2021 Eduskunta in other websites Facebook profile (autumn 2011) Flickr (online photo management and sharing application) Youtube? (promotional and educational material) 3

9. 3. 2021 Eduskunta and open data Citizens are creating websites that follow the parliamentary work and gather information about MP’s (news, blogs, opinions, decisions…) Main goal is to open the Finnish parliament data Eduskunta data to be freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Open access. 4

9. 3. 2021 What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a "crowd"), through an open call. Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production model. In the classic use of the term, problems are broadcast to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. See more: http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Crowd_sourcing 5

9. 3. 2021 Open data: Where to start Starting points: Where to start (a vast information package)? What parliamentary information is most interesting? How to proceed? Who will make the decision to open data? ASK THE WEB USERS / CITIZENS: Ada-project – to gather information and interests from different groups: • Web volunteers • Parties / political groups • Media • Internal groups 6

9. 3. 2021 Methods Results of Ada-project Areas that interests most: documents, themes (e. g. environment), parliamentarians, voting results, engagements Users do not know what information Parliament publishes (what information is / could be available) => a list of areas Users do not know the procedures! Criteria: accurate, reliable, time of publishing available Formats: XML, JSON, CSV 7

9. 3. 2021 Methods (2) Networking: Finnish Netdemocracy association A link between users and administration Web managers, volunteers, think-ups Co-operation: seminars, websites, meetings, Information society group (of Parliament) MP’s, staff, assistants of MP’s co-operation: meetings, networking Examples of sites: 8

9. 3. 2021 Examples of new parliamentary related web services in Finland: 9

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9. 3. 2021 National e-participation environment GOALS: To enhance and enable dialog and interaction between citizens and public servants and improve e-participation In practice, to modernize web-based tools and processes, into a ”toolbox” that is easy to take into use – by citizens, associations, government agencies and municipalities Goal is to builds an ecosystem of services – with commercial and non-profit add-on services complementing the services developed in the program 15

9. 3. 2021 In practice: • • • Planning of participation Deliberative discussions Interactive drafting (valmistelu) Questionnaires, polls, statements (lausunnot, kyselyt) Citizen initiatives (national & local level) Monitoring the work of representatives (i. e, think ”Theyworkforus. co. uk” 16

9. 3. 2021 Thank you! Contact: petteri. nyman@eduskunta. fi 17