Along the flow of glocalization that is aimed by modern society, self-governing administration that is promoting public interest needs to be fulfilled with democracy and rationalism to apply ideas of citizens. In a local government citizen participati...
Along the flow of glocalization that is aimed by modern society, self-governing administration that is promoting public interest needs to be fulfilled with democracy and rationalism to apply ideas of citizens. In a local government citizen participation can be defined as the following. citizens who live in the local community take part in making or deciding policies and suggest their ideas to a local government. And a local government reflects citizens' opinions in decision of some policies. We can think this kind of thing is the procedure that can make accomplishment of administration, which have an effect on democracy and efficiency of local administration. So citizen participation can supplement faults of a local government and helps real progress of it.
So I'm trying to study about citizen participation in terms of theory and how citizens join in making policy using a homepage of a local government on the internet. Through the homepage of Iksan City in Jeonbuk I understanded the current situation and problem of citizen participation and suggest methods to promote citizen participation. The root idea of a local government is ruled by citizens. Lately because of changes of the society circumstance and rapid developments of the information, We are requested to deal with tasks for customers more than just works and to do work more productively. But it is a quite difficult that citizens participate administrative works directly because of some conditions such as the time, the place, and the economy.
The growth of information communication contributed to overcome some problems of the time, the place and the economy. So it can be possible making conditions for direct citizen participation about administration tasks. Consequently citizens can take part in making policies of a local government without limitations like the time and the place. Regardless of all ages, jobs and places whoever can participate in making or deciding policy. The spaces such as cyber public hearing and newsgroup on the internet can promote citizen participation. Using homepage, a local government can encourage discussion between citizens and collect diverse public views. We have to find a solution to active citizen participation using next four methods. The first, in this information-oriented society a local government has to provide information by itself and develops information contents that are specific to the local community. The second, a local government should protect private information and gather diverse opinions from citizens. And a local government also has to lead citizen to participate for forming policy through reducing information alienation. The third, on the homepage a local government tries to have diverse contents and urges to update some data. Finally a local government should have some systems to use information jointly, to link, and hire professional human resources. Citizen participating using the homepage of a local government is not a way that can collect all opinions from citizens. This is just the way to get rid of some limitations and to purse convenience for citizen participation. But it would be possible to be taken part in administrative works by citizens, if a local government uses homepage for citizen participation more aggressively