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标题：Digital Democracy: Episode IV—A New Hope
其他标题：How a Corporation for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society
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作者：John Gastil ; Todd Davies
期刊名称：Digital Government: Research and Practice
印刷版ISSN：2691-199X
电子版ISSN：2639-0175
出版年度：2020
卷号：1
页码：1-15
DOI：10.1145/3342194
语种：English
出版社：Association for Computing Machinery
摘要：Although successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in thepast 20 years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.The undemocratic exploitation of massive social media systems continued this trend, but it onlyworsened an existing problem of modern democracies, which were already struggling to developdeliberative infrastructure independent of digital technologies. There have been many creativeconceptions of civic tech, but implementation has lagged behind innovation. This article arguesfor implementing one such vision of digital democracy through the establishment of a publiccorporation. Modeled on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the United States, this entitywould foster the creation of new digital technology by providing a stable source of funding tononprofit technologists, interest groups, civic organizations, government, researchers, privatecompanies, and the public.Funded entities would produce and maintain software infrastructurefor public benefit. The concluding sections identify what circumstances might create and sustainsuch an entity.
关键词：Civic engagement;deliberative democracy;government consultation;nonprofit technology;political participation;public media