Print Email Facebook Twitter Towards a balanced E-Participation Index Title Towards a balanced E-Participation Index: Integrating government and society perspectives Author Pirannejad, A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology; University of Tehran) Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Rezaei, J. (TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Date 2019 Abstract Since 2003, the United Nations has introduced the E-Participation Index (EPI), the first index to evaluate e-participation initiatives worldwide. This index has been subject to criticism for not representing the society side of e-participation initiatives. The EPI assesses e-participation initiatives on the government side only and neglects the society side, which includes all kinds of civil e-participation initiatives. In this work, the society side is included by incrementally extending the EPI with the Human Development Index and the Democracy Index. To identify the weights of the index, the best–worst method (BWM) is used while surveying 23 experts. The results show that political rights and civil liberties are viewed as the most important criteria with which to evaluate e-participation initiatives. Using this ranking, the Balanced EPI (BEPI) is created, giving weight to both the government and society sides. The new index concerns the willingness and empowerment levels of citizens so that the public can influence policy and political decision-making. Dedicated e-participation measures should be developed in further research. Subject Balanced e-participation indexE-participationGovernment-led e-participation initiativesSociety-led e-participation initiatives To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1b6a4c51-986b-46ac-b0cf-6b770fce9e02 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.101404 Embargo date 2020-02-14 ISSN 0740-624X Source Government Information Quarterly: an international journal of information technology management, policies, and practices, 36 (4) Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 A. Pirannejad, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen, J. Rezaei Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0740624X17302836_main.pdf 1.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1b6a4c51-986b-46ac-b0cf-6b770fce9e02/datastream/OBJ/view