[EGOV LIST] Beyond Bureaucracy '23: Self-Governance of the Public Sphere and Innovative Use of Technology by Civil Society

[alois paulin]

Dear colleague,

are you researching on topics such as Liquid Democracy? e-Anarchy? Non-Bureaucracy Government?, or other PROGRESSIVE e-Gov / e-Dem topics?

//////////////////  DG.O 2023 BEYOND BUREAUCRACY TRACK:

THEME: Self-Governance of the Public Sphere and Innovative Use of Technology by Civil Society

The DG.O 2023 Conference seeks submissions for the Beyond Bureaucracy track, which aims to outline and discuss challenges along the boundaries of society, technology, and governance, which reach beyond established e-governance and e-democracy research paths and priorities. 

Where well-established e-government / e-governance research ambitions focus on providing and/or studying technology that supports the work and mission of government agencies and governmental agents (incremental innovation), Beyond Bureaucracy addresses the question how radical technological innovation transforms the power of citizens and the conceptual sovereign body to actively control (rather than passively observe and follow) government agencies and governmental agents. The Beyond Bureaucracy track invites contributions that discuss pending technological (design science) challenges, promotes the economic potentials of disruptive new technological ecosystems, and serves as a platform for pro/con deliberations on Beyond Bureaucracy thought and knowledge.

Track Chairs:

*	Alois Paulin, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany
*	Robert Müller-Török, HVF Ludwigsburg, Germany
*	Zach Bastick, University of Harvard, USA

*	http://bb23.beyondbureaucracy.org 

//////////////////  CONF INFO

*	Gdańsk, Poland
*	June 11-14, 2022 (Sunday – Wednesday)
*	Submissions at https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2023/
*	Deadline: Jan 20, 2023

//////////////////  GUIDING CHALLENGES:

*	Can dislocated (potentially very large) groups of people make decisions about common assets or common matters, which do not need to be interpreted by institutions? 
*	Is it unavoidable to delegate decision-making to institutions (like parliaments, government agencies, ...)?
*	How can a society self-organize its common budget (taxes etc.)? 
*	Are institutions to collect, govern, and redistribute public assets absolutely necessary or can exaction be done self-organized?
*	Can core public-domain institutions be realized without central institutions? 
*	How can a society dynamically self-organize its public sector institutions / projects / programmes and bind them directly to collaborative decision making?
*	What are the challenges of the electronic identity? How can we overcome them to reach a system that will provide sustainable global identification for centuries to come?
*	Increased computerization of societal interactions comes with significant computing challenges. Can these be sufficiently addressed with classical computing approaches?
*	What would be the architecture and organization of such a government?


//////////////////  RECOMMENDED TOPICS:

*	Use of technology by NGOs & Civil Society
*	e-Anarchy
*	Participatory Budgeting & Bottom-Up Excise
*	Non-Bureaucratic Government
*	Governance Informatization
*	Disruptive Models of Societal Governance
*	Liquid Democratic Collaborative Decision-Making
*	Crowd-Sourced Taxation, Quantum Budget

*	Ethics of new Governance models 
*	Historical Lessons of Self-Organization
*	Ethical concerns in technology application
*	Bureaucratic Morality
*	The philosophy of technology

*	Peer Production, Self-Organized Virtual Communities
*	Hopes & Limits of E-Democracy

*	Pro/Contra discussions on above topics
*	Technologies that enable above topics


//////////////////  RECOMMENDED LITERATURE:

* A. Paulin. Smart City Governance. Elsevier, 2018.
* A. Paulin, L. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds., Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards Sustainable Governance Informatisation, vol. 25. Springer, 2017.

* Paulin, Alois. „Ten years of liquid democracy research: An overview“. Central and Eastern European eDem and eGov Days 338 (16. Juli 2020): 455–66. https://doi.org/10.24989/ocg.338.36.
* Blum, Christian, und Christina Isabel Zuber. „Liquid Democracy: Potentials, Problems, and Perspectives: Liquid Democracy“. Journal of Political Philosophy 24, Nr. 2 (Juni 2016): 162–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12065.
* Valsangiacomo, Chiara. „Clarifying and Defining the Concept of Liquid Democracy“. Swiss Political Science Review, 25. Oktober 2021, spsr.12486. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12486.


* Z. Bastick, ‘Digital Limits of Government: The Failure of E-Democracy’, in Beyond Bureaucracy, vol. 25, A. A. Paulin, L. G. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 3–14.
* F. Bannister, ‘In Defence of Bureaucracy: Governance and Public Values in a Digital Age’, in Beyond Bureaucracy, vol. 25, A. A. Paulin, L. G. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 27–47.
* C. Velikanov and A. Prosser, ‘Mass online deliberation within participatory policy-making’, in Beyond Bureaucracy, vol. 25, A. Paulin, L. Anthopoulos, and C. G. Reddick, Eds. Springer, 2017.

* A. Downs, Inside bureaucracy. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1967.
* L. Lessig, Code 2.0. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
* E. S. Raymond, The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. O’Reilly Media, 1999.
* Franssen, Maarten, Gert-Jan Lokhorst, and Ibo Van de Poel. Philosophy of technology. 2009