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A comprehensive architecture to support Open Data access, co-creation, and Dissemination (2018)

Ojo, Adegboyega; Stasiewicz, Arkadiusz; Porwol, Lukasz; Petta, Andrea; Pirozzi, Donato;...

A comprehensive architecture to support Open Data access, co-creation, and Dissemination (2018)

Ojo, Adegboyega; Stasiewicz, Arkadiusz; Porwol, Lukasz; Petta, Andrea; Pirozzi, Donato; Serra, Luigi; Scarano, Vittorio; Vicidomini, Luca

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Contemporary data infrastructures are yet to afford easy access to available data, better understanding of these data, engagement around data to drive collective sense-making and knowledge cocreation. This work synthesizes the knowledge gained through a 40- month research and innovation project which led to designing and implementing an architecture which addresses those challenges.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13375/

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An ontology for next generation e-Participation initiatives (2016)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega; Breslin, John G

An ontology for next generation e-Participation initiatives (2016)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega; Breslin, John G

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Despite over a decade-long experience of implementing e-Participation initiatives, there have been limited efforts so far to develop a detailed, comprehensive conceptualization for e-Participation considered from three distinct perspectives: as democratic process, a project and a deliberation platform. Current e-Participation literature is replete with fragmented models, which only partially describe aspects of e-Participation with main focus on structuring the “e-Participation” concept as a domain. This has made consistent descriptions and comparative analysis of e-Participation initiatives difficult, thus hindering the overall evolution of e-Participation. Consequently, no comprehensive, formal, executable e-Participation Ontology exists, that could be directly leveraged to facilitate operations of e-Participation initiatives or improving communication and knowledge exchange between similar e-Participation initiatives. In addition, current generation of e-Participation models does...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12847/

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Examining the feasibility of a Smart Region approach in the North West Atlantic and Borders Region of Ireland (2018)

Ó Brolcháin, Niall; Ojo, Adegboyega; Porwol, Lukasz; Minton, David; Barry, Clodagh

Examining the feasibility of a Smart Region approach in the North West Atlantic and Borders Region of Ireland (2018)

Ó Brolcháin, Niall; Ojo, Adegboyega; Porwol, Lukasz; Minton, David; Barry, Clodagh

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Research and innovation of the smart city concept is logically evolving and extending into the conceptualisation of smart regions. Within the European Union the political priorities and principles are aligning to encourage the development of smart regions. Current plans for jobs, growth and investment, the digital single market, energy union and democratic change align with the long-standing principle of subsidiarity, the circular economy approach [2] and with smart specialisation strategy [3]. This paper examines the ongoing process of engagement and active participation of stakeholders using the quadruple helix model [5] in the conceptualisation, design and implementation of Smart Regional Policy in the Northern, Western and borders region of the Republic of Ireland in an area including 10 local authorities. This process is known as the Smart Places Region initiative.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13374/

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On The Duality of E-Participation Towards a foundation for Citizen-Led Participation (2014)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega; Breslin, John

On The Duality of E-Participation Towards a foundation for Citizen-Led Participation (2014)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega; Breslin, John

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Conference paper
What remains unclear after a decade of e-Participation research and practice is the extent to which the social web and informal channels have empowered citizens in government-citizen interactions where government determines what, where and how to discuss. Lately, attention has shifted to how these informal channels could be better harnessed as part of a holistic e-Participation solution. However, this implicit notion of duality of e-Participation is yet to be explored or conceptualized. This paper provides a first step towards understanding the duality of Government-led and Citizen-led e-Participation based on structuration and dynamic capabilities theories. We employ structuration theory to understand how dynamics of power between government and citizen in deciding what is important for the society and the solutions to adopt could tilt towards the side of citizens through citizen-led deliberations. Through the dynamic capabilities theory, we determ...

http://www.deri.ie/sites/default/files/publications/adegboyega-ojo-paper8.pdf

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Structuring e-Participation Perspectives Mapping and Aligning Models to Core Facets (2014)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega; Breslin, John

Structuring e-Participation Perspectives Mapping and Aligning Models to Core Facets (2014)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega; Breslin, John

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Conference paper
A proliferation of e-participation research in recent years has produced fragmented contributions in the area of e-participation models. Without a mechanism for analyzing, relating and consolidating these models, further development of the domain is in danger of repeating itself. This paper presents such a mechanism an Integrative Framework which organizes e-participation models based on the nature and specific aspects of e-participation supported. The Integrative Framework enables mapping of models to 12 different facets constructed from a combination of three related perspectives and four canonical aspects of e-participation. While our genealogical analysis of the models showed in general weak relationships among models, our Framework enabled logical groupings of these models as a basis for consolidation, alignment or complementarity analyses. Mappings also clearly revealed aspects of e-participation that are yet to be (sufficiently) addressed. W...

http://www.deri.ie/content/structuring-e-participation-perspectives-%E2%80%93-mapping-and-aligning-models-core-facets

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The duality of e-participation - a model and technical infrastructure to study and harness social media-based participation (2016)

Porwol, Lukasz

The duality of e-participation - a model and technical infrastructure to study and harness social media-based participation (2016)

Porwol, Lukasz

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Despite the proliferation of e-Participation initiatives, overall efforts towards mainstreaming social media-based and citizen-led political deliberations are still limited. Consequently, there is a paucity of research on expected mutual re-shaping of deliberations on traditional e-Participation platforms and spontaneous citizen discussions on social media platforms. This mutual re- shaping phenomenon also referred to as the “duality of e-Participation” has been identified by Macintosh et al. in 2009, however up to date there is lack of methods and tools to study or enabling to harness the duality. In particular, the duality requires a specific, e-Participation-aligned, technical infrastructure to enable decision makers in government to access relevant information about ongoing citizen discussions on social media platforms. In this dissertation, we investigate the nature of the duality of e-Participation phenomenon; we construct a design inter alia of a Social Software Infrastructur...

http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6088

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Through vr-participation to more trusted digital participatory democracy (2018)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega

Through vr-participation to more trusted digital participatory democracy (2018)

Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega

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With the advent of Virtual Reality-supported social media, an opportunity arises for transitioning from text-based solutions to next-gen e-Participation by applying more trustful digital interaction for democratic purposes. In this paper elaborate upon and provide some empirical evidence supporting the thesis of participation-trust-growing with increased immersion in digital interaction in case of Virtual Reality discussion spaces.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13372/

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Towards intelligent open data platforms: Discovering relatedness in datasets (2017)

Sennaike, Oladipupo A.; Waqar, Mohammad; Osagie, Edobor; Hassan, Islam; Stasieqicz, Ark...

Towards intelligent open data platforms: Discovering relatedness in datasets (2017)

Sennaike, Oladipupo A.; Waqar, Mohammad; Osagie, Edobor; Hassan, Islam; Stasieqicz, Arkadiusz; Porwol, Lukasz; Ojo, Adegboyega

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Open data platforms are central to the management and exploitation of data ecosystems. While existing platforms provide basic search capabilities and features for filtering search results, none of the existing platforms provide recommendations on related datasets. Knowledge of dataset relatedness is critical for determining datasets that can be mashed-up or integrated for the purpose of analysis and creation of data-driven services. When considering data platforms, such as data.gov with over 193,000 datasets or data.gv.uk with over 40,000 datasets, specifying dataset relatedness relationship manually is infeasible. In this paper, we approach the problem of discovering relatedness in datasets by employing the Kohonen Self Organsing Map (SOM) algorithm to analyze the metadata extracted from the Data Catalogue maintained on a platform. Our results show that this approach is very effective in discovering relatedness relationships among datasets. Findings also reveal that our approach co...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13371/

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VR-participation: The feasibility of the virtual reality-driven multi-modal communication technology facilitating e-Participation (2018)

Porwol, Lukasz; Pereira, Agustín García; Ojo, Adegboyega

VR-participation: The feasibility of the virtual reality-driven multi-modal communication technology facilitating e-Participation (2018)

Porwol, Lukasz; Pereira, Agustín García; Ojo, Adegboyega

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Successful communication between citizens and decision makers – eParticipation, despite progressing from dedicated solutions to modern, social media-based approaches has been facing many challenges. We argue that Virtual Reality technologies through its sense of presence and embodiment for discussion participants can help in alleviating some of the major obstacles hindering effective communication and collaboration. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to building AI models to support effective dialog implementation in VR. VR platforms potentially afford studies on user behavior without the overhead of complicated sensor infrastructure required for data collection. In particular, we propose machine-learning-based approach for predictive log analytics to identify behavioral patterns that support or obstruct effective collaboration in the context of structured dialog conversation. We discuss the applicability of the models to e-Participation and possible broader application of t...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13377/