Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives

Andrea Hamm; Yuya Shibuya; Teresa Cerratto Pargman; Roy Bendor; Nicolai Brodersen Hansen; Christoph Raetzsch; Masahiko Shoji; Christoph Bieber; Mennatullah Hendawy; Gwen Klerks; Ben Schouten

doi:10.1145/3544549.3573818

Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives

Andrea Hamm, Yuya Shibuya, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Roy Bendor, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Christoph Raetzsch, Masahiko Shoji, Christoph Bieber, Mennatullah Hendawy, Gwen Klerks, Ben Schouten

School of Communication and Culture - Media Studies

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The design of civic tech is often confronted with impediments, barriers, and a lack of resources. These and other causes may lead to the discontinuation and even abandonment of initiatives. Since seemingly failed projects are much more difficult to publish as articles, this workshop will provide academics and practitioners with a rare opportunity to exchange experiences and insights on discontinued civic tech initiatives. The goal of the workshop is to develop a better understanding of why some civic tech initiatives fail and ask whether discontinued initiatives may still somehow contribute to social change and the growth of digital civics. A variety of sub-questions around discontinued civic tech will be addressed in the workshop, including matters of participation, citizen science, public management, power structures and biases, and communication.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 : Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of publication	Hamborg
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	Apr 2023
Article number	348
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573818
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/2023 → 28/04/2023
Sponsor	ACM SIGCHI, Apple, Bloomberg, Google, National Science Foundation, Siemens

Series	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Keywords

Bottom-up
Civic Design
Civic Tech
Digital Civics
Engaged Communities

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Hamm, A., Shibuya, Y., Cerratto Pargman, T., Bendor, R., Hansen, N. B., Raetzsch, C., Shoji, M., Bieber, C., Hendawy, M., Klerks, G., & Schouten, B. (2023). Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives. In CHI 2023 : Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 348 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573818

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