BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Vision\, Voice\, and Technology: Is There a Global "Open Govern ment" Trend? Sabina Schnell\, \;Assistant Professor of Public Administ ration and International Affairs.“Open government” is being hailed as a ne w governance paradigm. But while everybody pays lip-service to it\, are go vernments around the world becoming more open? I look at changes in both t he meaning and the practice of government openness around the world in the last decades. A few main trends are identified. First\, the technological meaning of openness is increasingly supplanting the rights-based understa nding of it. Second\, even though more and more countries are joining glob al transparency and openness initiatives\, global averages on budget trans parency or open data have barely budged. Third\, while autocracies are cat ching up to democracies in terms of using online tools to inform and consu lt citizens\, we see an incipient democratic rollback around the world\, i ncluding a shrinking space for civil society. Yet\, the most significant c hanges in government transparency (“vision”) and citizen participation (“v oice”) have gone hand-in-hand with processes of democratization. I conclud e that\, if we narrow down government openness to a set of tools and techn ologies used at will\, as opposed to a set of legally embedded rights that guarantee access to information and participation independent of who is i n power\, we risk ending up with governments that are more closed rather t han more open to genuine societal inputs. \;Conversations in Conflict Studies is a weekly educational speaker series for students\, faculty\, an d the community. The series\, sponsored by PARCC\, draws its speakers from Syracuse University faculty\, national and international scholars and act ivists\, and PhD students. Pizza is served. Follow us on Twitter @PARCCatM axwell\, tweet #ConvoInConflict.If you require accommodations\, please con tact Deborah Toole by email at datoole@syr.edu or by phone at 315.443.2367 . \; DTEND:20180207T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260510T225800Z DTSTART:20180207T174500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Conversations in Conflict Studies with Professor Sabina Schnell UID:RFCALITEM639140362807068436 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Vision\, Voice\, and Technology: Is There a Global "Open Government" Trend?

Sabina Schnel l\, \;Assistant Professor of Public Administration and International A ffairs.

“Open government” is being hailed as a new governance p aradigm. But while everybody pays lip-service to it\, are governments arou nd the world becoming more open? I look at changes in both the meaning and the practice of government openness around the world in the last decades. A few main trends are identified. First\, the technological meaning of op enness is increasingly supplanting the rights-based understanding of it. S econd\, even though more and more countries are joining global transparenc y and openness initiatives\, global averages on budget transparency or ope n data have barely budged. Third\, while autocracies are catching up to de mocracies in terms of using online tools to inform and consult citizens\, we see an incipient democratic rollback around the world\, including a shr inking space for civil society. Yet\, the most significant changes in gove rnment transparency (“vision”) and citizen participation (“voice”) have go ne hand-in-hand with processes of democratization. I conclude that\, if we narrow down government openness to a set of tools and technologies used a t will\, as opposed to a set of legally embedded rights that guarantee acc ess to information and participation independent of who is in power\, we r isk ending up with governments that are more closed rather than more open to genuine societal inputs.
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Conversations in Conflict Stu dies is a weekly educational speaker series for students\, faculty\, and t he community. The series\, sponsored by PARCC\, draws its speakers from Sy racuse University faculty\, national and international scholars and activi sts\, and PhD students. Pizza is served. Follow us on Twitter @PARCCatMaxw ell\, tweet #ConvoInConflict.

If you require accommodations\, p lease contact Deborah Toole by email at datoole@syr.edu or by phone at 315 .443.2367. \;

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