Public Participation in Design of Health Empowering Information Systems
Abstract
The paper demonstrates how the public can participate in design of an Information Systems to fulfill political stakeholder requirements by employing the empowerment-effects in an effects-driven system development process. The effects-driven IT development research project aims at developing methods for IT-development projects allowing end-users to engage in collaboration with system implementers on more equal terms. This is achieved as a common goal or measurable effects become the driving motivation in the system design and implementation.