eParticipation in Hamburg Renate Mitterhuber, eGovernment, Strategy, Ministry of Finance, City of Hamburg 23. September 2010 PEP-NET Summit
Jun 20, 2015
eParticipation in Hamburg
Renate Mitterhuber, eGovernment, Strategy, Ministry of Finance, City of Hamburg23. September 2010
PEP-NET Summit
City-State Hamburg: Key FactsHamburg, the second-largest city in Germany
Residents about 1,774 million (2010)
Metro area more than 4.3 million inhabitants
Density 2,351/km2
Budget about EUR 11 billion (2009)
Crisis economic slump: GDB -5 % about EUR 6 billion by 2013 are missing third highest debt rate in Germany: EUR 12.367 per head
Politics Government - First Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus (CDU)Governing parties CDU / Green Alternative List (GAL)
Districts 7 boroughs (Bezirke) subdivided into 105 quarters
City council about 70.000 employees
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Living Bridge
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The fields of eParticipation in Hamburg since 2002
Concept „Growing City“
Family-friendly Housing
Participatory Budgeting 2006
Future of the University of Hamburg
Participatory Budgeting 2009
Dome Square
to deepen
consolidate results
main forum
main forum
to agree
to evaluate
wikis
to contribute
to comment
to summarize
to moderate
to inform
moderator participant
main forumexpert forums
themes forums
Procedure model
brainstorming
deepening
consolidation
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Example I: Urban DevelopmentDomplatz (Dome Square)
Case history Former site of the medieval Dome Destruction of historical building in
Second World War Since then there had been a long and
controversial public discussion to develop a convincing spatial concept
Many architectural competitions have been announced
No proposal was accepted by the public until 2006
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Example I: Urban DevelopmentDomplatz (Dome Square)
Time period
May 29th – June 16th, 2007
Participants 285 registered users 16,000 visitors
Total suggestions 51 individual architectural drafts 1,000 forum articles 27 concepts
Outcome The discussion was revitalized An interim solution with a “green
design” was realized The most visible result of all
discussions in Hamburg
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Example I: Urban DevelopmentLiving Bridge
Idea
Bridge over the river Elbe with shops and dwellings functionally similar to the Ponte Veccio in Florence
Proposal
Design concept by the famous Hamburg architect Hadi Teherani
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Example I: Urban DevelopmentLiving Bridge
Time period
November 12th – December 14th, 2007
February 12th – February 19th, 2008
Participants 498 registered users 8,435 visitors
Total suggestions 1,682 contributions 22 wikis
Result No bridge over the river Elbe
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Example I: Urban DevelopmentFuture of the University of Hamburg
Four possible scenarios Rehabilitation and modernization of
existing University buildings Demolition of University buildings and
new construction at the same site Parts of the University move to the
Habour-City The University as a whole moves to
the Harbour-City
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Example I: Urban DevelopmentFuture of the University of Hamburg
Time period
April 6th – April 29th, 2009
Participants 221 registered users 4,644 visitors
Total suggestions 756 contributions 12 wikis
Result Scenario 1
< 18 years
18-29 years
30-44 years
45-64 years
> 64 years
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graduate degree
baccalaureate others0%
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Education
male female0%
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Hamburg has accomplished two Participatory Budgets:
Example II: Participatory BudgetingCases and Objectives
www.hamburg-haushalt.de
www.buergerhaushalt-hamburg.de
2006
2009
Objectives Citizens involvement in financial planning; Background: high indebtedness Discussion in a long-term perspective till 2020 Find out priorities and posteriorities Develop concrete proposals on how to spend/save tax payers money Deliver more knowledge on budget issues and create transparency
to change budget items to cause changes to emit prediction to view profiles
Example II: Participatory BudgetingThree-Pillar-Approach
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general forums to develop, to comment
and to evaluate suggestions
expert forums live discussions
about the budget about the state of affairs
of the discussions to watch video interviews
Planning Discussing Information
Participatory Budget
Example II: Participatory BudgetingNumbers – Data – Facts 2009
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Participatory budget 2009 Participatory budget 2006
Time period
June 16th – July 10th, 2009
Participants 552 registered users with 10 minutes
average visit time per user 1,970 contributions in the discussion 3,800 visitors
Total suggestions 245 budgets have been arranged with 525
statements 15 result wikis
Participants 2009 and 2006
Example II: Participatory BudgetingEvaluation 2009
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„winners“ School and occupational training (+14 %) Sciences und research (+5 %) Social affairs, family, health and
consumer protection (+5 %)
„losers“ Urban development and environment (-2 %) Inner affairs (-3 %) Culture, sports und media (-4 %) Economy and labor (-4 %) Agencies on local Level (-5 %) Ministry of Justice (-5 %) Ministry of Finance (-10 %) Parliament, Constitutional Court, Court of Auditors (-11 %) Senate und senate agency (-16 %)
Additional expenditure: 2,6 % (about 241 million Euro)
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eFinance of the additional expenditure
Transparency is being created Complex coherences can be communicated understandably Issues may be comprehensively high-lighted within short time Conflicts can get even more transparent
Politics can be re-designed Politics and administration show and proof their willingness to dialogue eParticipation may help to reduce frustration with politics Citizen engagement is being activated New ideas and concepts are being created Targeted handling through knowledge of problems, wishes and suggestions of the
citizens
Advertisement “pro domo” Public discussions are being initiated (“agenda setting”) The popularity and acceptance of eGovernment is being increased. Instead of just
downloading forms, citizens may engage actively in political issues.
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Experiences and Conclusions
What else in Hamburg?
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Examples:
ePetitions
Collaboration is widespread within Hamburgs administration
News via twitter and facebook
E-Participation-Strategy:
Concept for the usuability of web 2.0 tools for administrations
Looking on other Best-practice-solutions in Germany and Europe
Renate MitterhuberFree and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Ministry of FinanceDepartment of eGovernmentGänsemarkt 3620354 HamburgGermany
Phone + 49 40 428 23 - 1497 Fax + 49 40 42979 23 - 458 Mail [email protected]
eGovernment strategy Hamburghttp://www.hamburg.de/e-government
eParticipation Hamburgwww.hamburg.de/buergerbeteiligung
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Thank you for your attention.