LESSON 6: Civic Participation

The main objectives of this lesson were:

To know what civic participation is.
To know how the information and communication technologies ease civic participation.
To know the electronic services that Public Administrations offer to citizens.
To know the technology can be used to participate in democratic actions.
To be aware of the technologies and digital media potential as tools for civic participation.
To understand how the technology can be used to interact with other services.

We stat by getting to know the meaning of civic participation, that seeks to involve citizens actively in decision making planning and public matters management that effect their lives.

Administrations have developed many initiatives in the last years to encourage citizens to planning and execute public politics.

Examples:

Participatory Budgeting
Referendum
Civic queries
Child plenary session

- Participatory Budgeting: allow cities and towns to educate, engage, and empower their citizens along with strengthening their governance.

-Referendum: The decision making responsibility is transferred to the citizens, who will be in charge of decide, by voting and majority, which proposal will be carried out and which ones don't.

-Civic queries: It consist on knowing the citizens opinions throw series of well-defined questions dealing with future public actions or assessment regarding the action of the authorities.

-Child plenary session: It is oriented to encourage democratic participation in the young citizens.

We also talked about how ICT is applied in civic participation:

Some of the tools available to support the electronic way some of the tasks dealing with participation processes (questionaries, debates, voting...) are:

Doodle: (https://doodle.com/)
Google Forms:(https://www.google.es/intl/es/forms/about/)
Kahoot: (https://kahoot.com)
Socrative: (https://www.socrative.com/)
Mentimeter: (https://www.mentimeter.com)
SurveyMonkey: (https://es.surveymonkey.com/)
TypeForm: (https://www.typeform.com/)

We also learned about Or e-administration, that is the use of the ICT in Public administration, combined with organizational change new skills, to improve public services and democratic processes and to strengthen support for public policies.

Electronic administration (Spain)

Tools to manage the elecciones tronic signature, CL@VE:

Cl@ve is a system aimed at unifying and simplifying citizens electronic access to public services. Its main objective is that the citizen can identify himself in the electronic administration by means of keys (user plus password)
It is a common platform for identification, authentication and elecciones ironic signature.
Cl@ve complements current access systems by means of DNIe and digital certificate, and offers the possibility of singing in the cloud with personal certificates stored in remote servers.

https://clave.gob.es/clave_Home/clave.html

Cl@ve supports two possibilities of use:

Cl@ve ocasional (Cl@ve PIN): a password system with very limited validity in the time, aimed at users who access the services sporadically, which corresponds to the AEAT´s PIN24H system.
Cl@ve permanent: a password system with long term validity, but not unlimited, oriented to regular users. It corresponds to the system of access by user and password, reinforced with single-use keys by SMS, to the Social Security services. This system will also allow citizens to access the signature in the cloud.

Citizen folder:

It is a service that facilities the relationship with the public Administration. It does not contain information, it points to its location-origin. Interoperates with other similar initiative. It allows access to:

> Status of files

> Notifications

> Personal data registered with the Administration.

> Your records

> In the future, personal document area

Finally, our "Expediente digital del docente": e-Docente in Spanish, is a project developed by the

Ministry of Education, which establishes a data model to get professional information of the teacher in non-university grades.

• Identification information

• Academic data

• Administrative history

• Training and perfection

• Other merits

• Digital metadata of the record

Practical exercise:

1. First of all we have created a Doodle to decide the date of a meeting.

2. Then, we had to created a Google form to ask parents for permission on a mountain trip for our students where they can answer question about the details of the trip

3. Also, for this lesson we have created a user on Kahoot and we have posted a question with four possible answers and only one correct answer on our groups topic: