Research on the Process Mechanism of Digital Empowerment for Collaborative Governance——Based on Multiple Case Analysis
Digital collaboration will be the main action direction for the modernization of China's urban governance system and gov-ernance capacity in the coming period.Answering how digitization empowers collaborative governance is of great significance for promoting the extensive implementation of digital collaboration and enhancing the effectiveness of urban governance.Based on the Integrated Framework for Collaborative Governance(IFCG)and existing research on how digitization provides systematic support for collaboration,an analysis framework of"process-mechanism"to explain digital empowerment for collaborative governance was constructed.The multiple case study method was adopted,and cases such as"City Brain","Yuexiu Pioneer","Tencent Docs"and digital empowerment of volunteer services were selected for analysis.The study found that in different process stages of collabora-tive governance,digitization plays a role through different empowerment mechanisms,which are manifested as the dependence acti-vation and scenario production mechanisms in the initiation stage;the dual-layer embedding,trust strengthening and knowledge growth mechanisms in the operation stage;and the action empowerment,result expansion and internal and external adaptation mechanisms in the output stage.
Digital collaborationDigital empowermentUrban governanceCollaborative governance