eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi: Latin American and Caribbean multi-stakeholder consultation for ICT policy priorities for the year 2010
Spanish version: "Delphi de prioridades de políticas eLAC: Consulta multisectorial sobre prioridades de políticas TIC para el año 2010 en América Latina y el Caribe" http://www.cepal.org/SocInfo
Martin Hilbert and Julia Othmer Information Society Programme ECLAC working document, http://www.eclac.org/SocInfo/
ABSTRACT
"Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est" (If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable) – Seneca The eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi was carried out between April 2006 and September 2007 under the auspices of the Information Society Programme of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with the financial assistance of the European Commission’s @LIS project. The natural starting was the existing 2005-2007 Regional Plan of Action for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2007). The exercise aimed to identify public policy priorities and options regarding the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was inspired by the European Union’s policy priority foresight experiences and represents an innovative and more participatory approach to modernizing the way the United Nations assists its member countries in developing public policy agendas. Throughout the exercise, the eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi received methodological support from the Manchester Business School, especially from Professor Ian Miles, who has more than 30 years of experience with numerous Information Society foresight exercises in Europe. Overall, the project received 1,454 contributions from the public, private and academic sectors and the civil society. To the authors’ knowledge, it represents the most extensive online participatory policymaking exercise in the history of intergovernmental processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. A policy Delphi is designed to use the results of previous rounds as feedback during subsequent rounds, in order to enable judgements to be reconsidered in the light of opinions collected in those rounds and thus identify areas of emerging consensus and potential differences of interests. The eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi was designed in five rounds, implemented through three online questionnaires (1,274 contributions) and two face-to-face consultations (180 contributions). As the eLAC community did not have an established network of active stakeholders before this exercise, it was initially designed as an open-ended opinion poll…
"Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est" (If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable) – Seneca
The eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi was carried out between April 2006 and September 2007 under the auspices of the Information Society Programme of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with the financial assistance of the European Commission’s @LIS project. The natural starting was the existing 2005-2007 Regional Plan of Action for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2007).
The exercise aimed to identify public policy priorities and options regarding the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for development in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was inspired by the European Union’s policy priority foresight experiences and represents an innovative and more participatory approach to modernizing the way the United Nations assists its member countries in developing public policy agendas. Throughout the exercise, the eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi received methodological support from the Manchester Business School, especially from Professor Ian Miles, who has more than 30 years of experience with numerous Information Society foresight exercises in Europe.
Overall, the project received 1,454 contributions from the public, private and academic sectors and the civil society. To the authors’ knowledge, it represents the most extensive online participatory policymaking exercise in the history of intergovernmental processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. A policy Delphi is designed to use the results of previous rounds as feedback during subsequent rounds, in order to enable judgements to be reconsidered in the light of opinions collected in those rounds and thus identify areas of emerging consensus and potential differences of interests. The eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi was designed in five rounds, implemented through three online questionnaires (1,274 contributions) and two face-to-face consultations (180 contributions). As the eLAC community did not have an established network of active stakeholders before this exercise, it was initially designed as an open-ended opinion poll…
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