Different aspects of transparency in digital government: The danish case

Ayo Næsborg Andersen; Hanne Marie Motzfeldt

doi:10.34190/ECDG.19.034

Different aspects of transparency in digital government: The danish case

Ayo Næsborg Andersen, Hanne Marie Motzfeldt

University of Copenhagen

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019
Editors	Tugberk Kaya
Number of pages	8
Publisher	Academic Conferences and Publishing International
Publication date	2019
Pages	81-88
ISBN (Print)	9781912764402
ISBN (Electronic)	9781912764396
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34190/ECDG.19.034
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019 - Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus Duration: 24. Oct 2019 → 25. Oct 2019

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Conference	19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
Period	24/10/2019 → 25/10/2019

Series	Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG
Volume	2019-October
ISSN	2049-1034

Keywords

Algorithm transparency
Data
Democracy
Digital government
Digitalization
Legislative process
Transparency

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Andersen, A. N., & Motzfeldt, H. M. (2019). Different aspects of transparency in digital government: The danish case. In T. Kaya (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019 (pp. 81-88). Academic Conferences and Publishing International. Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG Vol. 2019-October https://doi.org/10.34190/ECDG.19.034

Andersen, Ayo Næsborg ; Motzfeldt, Hanne Marie. / Different aspects of transparency in digital government : The danish case. Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019. editor / Tugberk Kaya. Academic Conferences and Publishing International, 2019. pp. 81-88 (Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG, Vol. 2019-October).

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Andersen, AN & Motzfeldt, HM 2019, Different aspects of transparency in digital government: The danish case. in T Kaya (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019. Academic Conferences and Publishing International, Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG, vol. 2019-October, pp. 81-88, 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus, 24/10/2019. https://doi.org/10.34190/ECDG.19.034

Different aspects of transparency in digital government : The danish case. / Andersen, Ayo Næsborg; Motzfeldt, Hanne Marie.

Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Digital Government, ECDG 2019. ed. / Tugberk Kaya. Academic Conferences and Publishing International, 2019. p. 81-88 (Proceedings of the European Conference on e-Government, ECEG, Vol. 2019-October).

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