TY - GEN
T1 - Different aspects of transparency in digital government
T2 - 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019
AU - Andersen, Ayo Næsborg
AU - Motzfeldt, Hanne Marie
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The public sector in Denmark is the most digitized in the world. Recent years have, however, shown that transparency is challenged, and public debate has exploded. The focus has in many ways been on a lack of transparency, but the public debate has been muddled by a lack of clarity on what the term means. This paper identifies four different aspects of transparency when it comes to digital government. This is transparency of algorithms, and of data, as well as of the decision processes when digitalization and development are initiated. The latter can be divided into transparency of administrative decisions, and of democratic debate. The democratic transparency has been sorely lacking in Denmark leading to a significant democratic deficit in digital government. This is due to very low transparency when decisions on digitization measures are presented for the democratic elected representatives. The latter in particular calls for more research, since lack of democratic transparency poses a danger to the stability of democratic societies.
AB - The public sector in Denmark is the most digitized in the world. Recent years have, however, shown that transparency is challenged, and public debate has exploded. The focus has in many ways been on a lack of transparency, but the public debate has been muddled by a lack of clarity on what the term means. This paper identifies four different aspects of transparency when it comes to digital government. This is transparency of algorithms, and of data, as well as of the decision processes when digitalization and development are initiated. The latter can be divided into transparency of administrative decisions, and of democratic debate. The democratic transparency has been sorely lacking in Denmark leading to a significant democratic deficit in digital government. This is due to very low transparency when decisions on digitization measures are presented for the democratic elected representatives. The latter in particular calls for more research, since lack of democratic transparency poses a danger to the stability of democratic societies.
KW - Algorithm transparency
KW - Data
KW - Democracy
KW - Digital government
KW - Digitalization
KW - Legislative process
KW - Transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075290370&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85075290370
T3 - Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG
SP - 81
EP - 88
BT - Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019
A2 - Kaya, Tugberk
PB - Academic Conferences Limited
Y2 - 24 October 2019 through 25 October 2019
ER -