Dokument: Urban Governance for Sustainable Development: Information Dissemination, Open Data, and Citizen Participation
| Titel: | Urban Governance for Sustainable Development: Information Dissemination, Open Data, and Citizen Participation | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=54959 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20201211-132508-9 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Meschede, Christine [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Prof. Dr. Stock, Wolfgang G. [Gutachter] Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.soc.oec.et Mag.Dr.iur. Reichmann, Gerhard [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke » 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | Addressing the concept of sustainable development is not a novel idea among the Information Science community. Since 1995, there have been some considerations to establish the topic in the discipline (Spink, 1995). However, the efforts are scattered among a few subtopics of Information Science research (Nolin, 2010), for example, concerning green libraries or green Information and Communication Technology. But there is more to the concept of sustainable development than the environmental dimension, i.e., a social and economic perspective. Hitherto, little effort is observable to consolidate sustainable development in a holistic sense into the Information Science discipline. With my thesis, I am closing this gap by concentrating on urban governance for sustainable development from an Information Science perspective. Good governance is an essential objective that is deemed necessary for sustainable development (Sachs, 2015). With a growing urban population, the role of cities in this context is of particular importance. In my thesis, I am applying the concept of urban governance for sustainable development to the notion of Information for Sustainable Development (Nolin, 2010). Three main dimensions are thereby building the basis for this concept: (1) Information Dissemination: the creation of equal access to information concerning sustainable development for everyone; (2) Open Data: the adequate gathering and structuring of indicators on sustainable development; and (3) Citizen Participation: the enabling of participation through various media and institutions. Eight research articles addressing these three aspects are building the core of the cumulative thesis. Therein, I applied several quantitative and qualitative methods, including bibliometric means, questionnaires, interviews, and content analyses. The results show that the three building blocks of urban governance for sustainable development are deeply related to each other. For example, information dissemination is essential for hosting citizen participation formats and can likewise be a goal itself of such events. Open urban data often forms the basis for citizen services like mobile applications concerning sustainable development; public datasets can further assume the function of informing citizens. The results also suggest that partnerships, in the form of research collaborations, government-government collaboration, government-citizen interactions, and library-organization partnerships, are of utmost importance for achieving sustainable development at the local level. | |||||||
| Quelle: | Nolin, J. (2010). Sustainable Information and Information Science. Information Research - An International Electronic Journal, 15(2), paper 431. Retrieved from http://informationr.net/ir/15-2/paper431.html
Sachs, J. D. (2015). The Age of Sustainable Development. New York, NY; Chichester, UK: Columbia University Press. Spink, A. (1995). Information and a Sustainable Future. Libri, 45(3–4), 203–208. https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.1995.45.3-4.203 | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Urheberrechtsschutz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät » Institut für Sprache und Information » Informationswissenschaft | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 11.12.2020 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 11.12.2020 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 03.06.2020 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 03.12.2020 |
